Comment Not my choice for spending eternity (Score 1) 159
"Dead on my feet"
Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time 362
sfraggle writes "Kotaku has an interesting review of Doom (the original!) by Stephen Totilo, a gamer and FPS player who, until a few days ago, had gone through the game's 17-year history without playing it. He describes some of his first impressions, the surprises that he encountered, and how the game compares to modern FPSes. Quoting: 'Virtual shotgun armed, I was finally going to play Doom for real. A second later, I understood the allure the video game weapon has had. In Doom the shotgun feels mighty, at least partially I believe because they make first-timers like me wait for it. The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have the shotgun, its big shots and its slow, fetishized reload are the floored-accelerator-pedal stuff of macho fantasy. The shotgun is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact. The shotgun is the punch in the face the once-scrawny boy on the beach gives the bully when he returns a muscled linebacker.'"
Comment The acronym department is failing (Score 2, Funny) 464
There has to be some way to put Frickin into an acronym for the shark laser. That way it truly would be sharks with F.R.I.C.K.I.N. lasers on their heads.
I guess you could lose the C if needed.
Comment Didn't see this idea but then I'm not reading. . . (Score 1) 758
630+ posts.
Well it's kind of hard to steal something if you have no place to hide it, so NAKED LAN PARTY! Have guest strip at the door and place their clothes and everything else in a garbage bag. Label the bag with the person's name. The person gets a name badge. No badge, no bag, you go home naked.
