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Comment Re:high scores (Score 1) 122

I enjoy games that compete for high score, but the landscape is just too different.

It's one thing when you're the kind of the local arcade that sees 1,000 unique players a year, but it's another thing when you're competing online with literally millions of others. The top 10 are usually all cheats/hackers who just want to see their name in lights.

I much prefer the trend of having Friend Leaderboards, or Local Leaderboards, just to help provide some level of context to your score.

Comment Re:Do You Regret... (Score 1) 122

I do lots of things with my life, including trolling [...]

Haha why would you write such a thing?

Is this what kids do for fun nowadays? Even if you do "troll", why the hell would you tell anyone this?

I don't know if I should shake my stick at you for being a shitty internet netizen or shake my stick at you for being a shitty troll.

Comment Re:Controllers for PC? (Score 1) 174

I will happily switch back and forth between controller and keyboard. RAGE was a game that controlled better with mouse and keyboard while shooting, but the driving felt a lot better with a controller.

I don't mind having to switch if the game is fun - and it's kind of neat getting to swap between input mechanisms.

The game was bad though.

Submission + - Google Has Received Over 41,000 Requests To 'Forget' Personal Information (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: In the three weeks since a key ruling by the European Court of Justice about the so-called right to be forgotten, Google has already received around 41,000 requests to delete links to personal information from its search results (within 24 hours of putting the form online, Google had reportedly received 12,000 deletion requests). It should be noted, though, that there is no absolute right to have information deleted, and Google will have to weigh a number of criteria in responding to the requests to delete links, including relevance of the information, and the time passed since the facts related.

Submission + - Rocks Made of Plastic Found on Hawaiian Beach (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Plastic may be with us a lot longer than we thought. In addition to clogging up landfills and becoming trapped in Arctic ice, some of it is turning into stone. Scientists say a new type of rock cobbled together from plastic, volcanic rock, beach sand, seashells, and corals has begun forming on the shores of Hawaii. The new material--which the researchers are calling a "plastiglomerate"--may be becoming so pervasive that it actually becomes part of the geologic record.

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