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  1. Re:Dumbest idea, ever on Apple To Launch Largest Stock Repurchasing Plan In History · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have small hands and my Galaxy S2 is very easy to use one handed. I must be doing something wrong to be able to use the phone that is the wrong width for the human hand so easily.

  2. Re:Finally! on Electronics Arts CEO Ousted In Wake of SimCity Launch Disaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too bad this didn't happen with Blizzard after Diablo 3 as well. Fuck this always-online NWO bullshit.

  3. Re:Goodbye Windows on Valve Officially Launches Steam For Linux · · Score: 1

    Yep, I've successfully run Skyrim and New Vegas, but NV is a bit slow and Skyrim is fine at first but quickly turns into a slideshow, as compared to my Win 7 partition where it's flawless :/ Mind you, I did it out of the box (it's amazing it worked just like that) so it could simply need some extra config. I'll give PlayOnLinux a shot.

  4. Re:Goodbye Windows on Valve Officially Launches Steam For Linux · · Score: 1

    Definitely agreed. The biggest thing about Steam going to Linux is the exposure for the platform and the interest it generates. This may help to spur on WINE development even more. When I can play Skyrim, New Vegas and Rocksmith flawlessly in WINE I'm not looking back.

  5. Re:Not again... on 30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Model M doesn't have a Windows key, you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:More efficient to grow but less efficient as fu on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    Gorillas have far larger canines than we do. They don't eat meat. They use them for crunching bamboo and piercing fruit.

  7. Re:Performant is not a word. on Mirah Tries To Make Java Fun With Ruby Syntax · · Score: 1

    It's a perfectly cromulent word.

  8. Re:Camera in eyeglasses on Recording the Police · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait... So all those hipsters with the phony glasses I meet are secretly recording me? Jesus Christ.

  9. Re:Obligatory on Microsoft Puts the Kibosh On Kinect Sex Game Plans · · Score: 2

    I remember way back when I bought PC Gamer there was a letter to the mag complaining about FEAR's frequent swearing. They agreed with him too. I guess sex and swearing is far more deplorable than the cannibalism, dismemberment and showers of blood in that game..

  10. Re:As a Canadian, I like to watch... on Quark-Gluon Plasma Observed At LHC · · Score: 1

    He's clearly an Australian in that case. tak tak tak tak tak thnnka tak tak thunk tal thin kl

  11. It isn't the superficial stuff on Mega Man Designer Explains Japan's Waning Video Game Influence · · Score: 1

    It isn't about getting ready of the whacky.. It's about getting rid of the stale. Japanese themes don't worry us at all. That's all superficial and as he said the superficial changes (blue eyed, blonde haired characters, Western themes) did bugger all. When it comes to RPGs (as an example genre), Western gamers lap up the open world games such as Morrowind and Oblivion. The Japanese probably love these games as well, but the developers are stuck in the rut of crafting Street Fighter, Tekken and DOA games with the same formula over and over again. Final Fantasy is still basically the same formula as well, with a bit of experimentation to do with class changing now and then. I'm not saying that there aren't plenty of Western developers aren't stuck in the same rut and there are certainly fun, novel games that come out of Japan (like Katamari). Just my $0.05

  12. Re:Wow, mods... on 'Throttling' Broadband Provider Sued In Australia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And why is this troll?

  13. Re:I had a teacher like that... on Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students · · Score: 1

    I have no idea where they'd get that from. Everyone knows they're called harddrives.

  14. Re:Hands Up on 36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Can it wait? on Mass Effect To Invade the Big Screen · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seriously, though. Reading TFA (I know I know) it is somewhat comforting to know that Bioware dudes are going to be involved. I'd prefer to know if their writers were in on it, though. Hell, Mass Effect blew my mind with its cinematic integrity. Will it get the Hollywood treatment and everything we know and love about it is raped and murdered before our eyes? Yeah, probably. But who knows, 300 and Watchmen were pretty faithful adaptations and maybe we won't have Johnny Fucking Depp or Robert Downey Jr playing Commander Shepard.

  16. Can it wait? on Mass Effect To Invade the Big Screen · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm in the middle of some calibrations.

  17. Re:KDE4 ruined it for me. on Sneak Preview For Coming KDE SC 4.5 · · Score: 1

    I know exactly what you mean when it comes to Amarok. The layout in particular annoyed me. I'd follow instructions to give a similar appearance in Amarok 2, but even with it looking like 1.4, it didn't have the same functionality (clicking a column title to sort, for example). I've been using MPD for awhile now, but recently I stumbled on Clementine which is a fork of Amarok 1.4. It's still very young, but is usable and looking good so far.

  18. This is the dawning on NASA Space Habitat Research Goes Undersea · · Score: 1

    of the age of Aquarius!

  19. Re:What will they do for release 24? on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 1

    I've wanted an Audacious Aardvaark for a long time. They've already repeated letters before anyway (Hedgehog/Herron)

  20. Woomera is the perfect place. on Japanese Spacecraft Bringing Back Space Rock · · Score: 1

    Any illegal aliens that come along with the spacerocks will be placed in Woomera Detention Centre for at least six months and then blasted back into outer space while the whales cry for them.

  21. YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!! on Microsoft Clears MechWarrior4 Free Launch · · Score: 1

    *ahem*

  22. Re:No lobbyists ...except mine. on Ex-Googler Obama Appointee Gets Buzz'ed · · Score: 1

    I lost all faith in FEMA when they put Walton Simons in charge.

  23. Re:The Benefits of Moving Backward on Gnome 2.30 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally I think KDE is the one that is actually making the real advances. I think I really noticed this when they reinvented the desktop where everything is a plasmoid, instead of the desktop simply being a dumping ground.

  24. Re:Pull the plug... on Filter Vendor Agrees Aussie Censorship Can't Work As Promised · · Score: 1

    I guess it isn't technically illegal because while the commercial whaling is banned, they use legal loopholes to do it with the whole killing for research for eating. http://greens.org.au/election/policy.php Inform yourself. If you want to dismiss them as crazies afterward, then fine.

  25. Re:Pull the plug... on Filter Vendor Agrees Aussie Censorship Can't Work As Promised · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They support a group which is battling Japan's illegal whaling. Sure, I don't dig some of Sea Sheperd's actions, but there is far more to the Greens than the environmentalism. While they're the only ones who would actually go through with cutting down emissions, their other policies are far more grounded in (secular) morality than either of the two major parties and they are against the filter. 250% less evil than the ALP or Libs.