A political scientist with a model that correctly predicts the result of every presidential election since 1912 (excluding 1960) predicts that there's a 97% Trump wins against Hillary if he's the nominee, 55-45. Chances against Bernie are 99% in favor of Trump. No way to tell if it'll actually pan ...

The New Order is a nice blend of Half-Life 2 and FEAR I'd say. Excellent stuff. Definitely. Easily one of the best shooters released in many many years. I'm looking forward to the new Doom too. Sounded like development hell with Doom 4 (at one point being a CoD ripoff), but yeah haha, the official ...

There's plenty of boring, normal things to order from Amazon besides games. I find Prime to be one of the most cost-effective subscriptions I've ever found... of course, I'm getting a student discount though.

I love how Ghost in the Shell really takes this to the limit with philosophical refections on such issues, it's the deepest cyberpunk world I've ever seen or read into. I did like Neuromancer, but I really thought it was a poor book on literary terms, it had good imagery but fell short in most othe...

Wow, this is a really fast-moving topic. My biggest gripe with the modern gaming industry is something the OP already brough up: the disappearance of mid-tier games. Go back 10 years, and there were very few indie games, a bunch of mid-tier games, and a decent amount of AAA games. To clarify, I'm de...

And MGS2 is the crowning achievement. I think MGS2 is an ass basket, but I get why some folks love it. It's incredibly subversive and daring, and took some ballsy chances. But behind all its insanity, the actual gameplay doesn't measure up to its predecessor and I found the plot itself to be amateu...

I'm usually on board with Xeogred but his breakdown of Metal Gear is bonkers disco retarded. However this is the correct thread for such a thing so it's all good bae. My popular opinion is that Metal Gear is one of the best series in gaming. And MGS2 is the crowning achievement. MGSV had an absolut...

Fallout 3 Once again, I think this is time #4? Made it about 5-6 hours in, but one day I closed the game and a couple of weeks later I have no urge to re-open it. No single aspect of the game is cool enough to sink its hooks into me. The music is bland and sounds like Oblivion outtakes, the charact...

u can just redirect store link to my bst thread k thx I know you're joking, but in a way that's a great idea. Except instead of linking the Store button to your BST thread, we link the Store button to the BST forum category. Either that, or just remove the button altogether. Like wclem, when I see ...

This stuff is much better than Jim Beam or Jack Daniel's honey whiskey. Much less syrupy, and not quite so sweet. My favorite flavored liquor right now.