1. What is your name?
randombit (or Jack)
2. What is your quest?
My current quest is to figure out what my quest is.
3. What is your favorite color?
Blue? Green? Gray? It varies, I guess.
4. How did you discover Everything, and how did you become a noder?
I discovered it via Slashdot, back when it was relatively common for Slashdot to link to e2 writeups in…
I'm an American, and a father. So I have two minor gripes about this film: it's not available dubbed into English, and it's too creepy-scary to watch with my family.
Aside from that, this is a fantastic fantasy film, one which pulls you convincingly into its world all the way from beginning to end.
Director Guillermo del Toro has set this film during the Spanish Civil War, following the girl Ofelia as she and her mother Carmen find themselves living in the heart the conflict
…'Cock up' (also hyphenated as cock-up) is British slang for admitting an understated mistake on a fairly big order. It comes from military usage in the 1920s, based on the errors of either mis-cocking a gun or turning the brim of headwear up to resemble the cocked hat of an officer in the navy.
Above you will notice that I used the word 'fairly', beginning to succumb to the British tradition of diversion, subterfuge, and just plain sneakiness they all employ to both take responsibility…
Before about 1995, video games almost universally used discrete controls. The classic boxy Nintendo Entertainment System controller is a perfect example, it had a D-Pad with four directions (plus combinations resulting in diagonals), select, start, A, and B buttons — 8 in total, each being either ON or OFF. The video game industry created games that took advantage of these controls, and for most of its history, home console game engine design was directly
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