Lower hardware requirements are definitely a bonus, but it comes at the cost of dumbed down controls. While using a keyboard, I have about 20 buttons under my left hand, and an accurate pointing device on my right, along with several buttons. Why would I want to cycle through potential targets by pushing a button? Why do I need to hold down a button (which also has a different function), instead of just pushing a different button? Now I enter a menu, and I have to lift my hand to get to the arrow keys to navigate the menu? Not user friendly at all.

Interesting trend: every time a post starts with "I don't expect any mod points for this post" or "I have karma to burn", it gets mod points.

This blog post with 4 image comparisons provides more conclusive evidence than TFA, which is really just another image-less summary.

Not even close. Comparing the realism between flight sim games and MW2 is ludicrous - with some additional hardware you could start approximating the experience of flying a plane. Hardly compares to holding down 'W', waving your mouse around and clicking bullets into unarmed civilians.

Additionally, there is no bomb in the "No Russian" mission of MW2, while it's entirely possible to fly jets into the World Trade Center in pre-9/11 flight sims. I once did it with a Cessna in Flight Simulator 95, which resulted in "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" moments after the crash.

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OpenDNS Basic is ranked at 22 of the 26 solutions that were tested, scoring below average on all four categories: Functionality, Effectiveness, Usability and Security. The list is available here.

Interestingly, Mac OS X ranked as the best solution, scoring better than all the tested purpose-built options.

At least now the ratio between desperate people and decent looking people on the site has a chance of dropping below six digits.

If only this had happened in Soviet Russia, and not in Canada.

The recommended distance from the sensor is 6-8 feet. The average person sits within 3 feet of their screen. They definitely need to do some work to make it finger aware, because I can't imagine that people will want to back away that far from the computer just to use full body gestures.

If death could be prevented, we would run into some serious overpopulation problems. Worldwide crude death rate is 8.6 per 1000 annually, while crude birth rate is 20.3 per 1000. World population is thus growing at 11.7 per 1000 people every year.

Preventing death will thus result in nearly doubling the rate at which world population is growing. As it is currently, we are looking for more sustainable ways to live; accelerated population increases can only worsen the impact we have on our planet.

Apparently joystick based games are becoming popular again.

The picture in TFA is rather small, but by the looks of it, the barn is simply a tent on a fixed frame. The article makes it sound like they have a zipper or something to keep birds and insects out:

I think after six years it's safe to say that trying to beat WoW at its own game is futile. If you want to surpass WoW as the world's leading MMO, you can't just copy their model.

The approach that ArenaNet appears to be taking with Guild Wars 2 is more sensible. They've thrown out many things which could be considered as fundamental in an MMO, but are actually limiting or frustrating. This includes things like grinding, quests that have no impact, text based plot and more subtle concepts such as the DPS/tank/heal arrangement.

If any game is capable of surpassing WoW, my money would be on GW2.

From TFA:

Could this be used to analyse microexpressions? Microexpression analysis has significant potential for improving lie detector tests beyond simple polygraphs.

My favourite hack is the one which allows you to hold the phone any way you please.