John H.

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• Commented on One shot: Bayonetta's Scarborough Fair, guns to look hot in a girl's hand
  That video was pretty obnoxious....
• Commented on <em>Wayfarer</em>: Ben Hemmendinger's dangerously addictive Processing rogue-like
  "[...]it's still that over-simplicity that puts off many newcomers off otherwise incredible games like Dwarf Fortress." ?!...
• Commented on Obama DOJ invents radical authoritarian theory to defend Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping
  Very disappointing? No. EXTREMELY disappointing? Yes. It's just indefensible. A good test in the coming weeks will be which people call Obama out on this, and which roll over and accept it....
• Favorited Angry bored octopus goes wilding on Boing Boing
• Favorited Angry bored octopus goes wilding on Boing Boing
• Favorited Soviet Winnie the Pooh cartoon on Boing Boing
• Favorited Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends on Google Video on Boing Boing
• Favorited Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe: hilarious critic screams abuse at his telly on Boing Boing
• Favorited Fun flash game - Chat Noir on Boing Boing
• Commented on Wil Wheaton teaches his son to slay dragons
  I hate to bring down the geek buzz of the room, but the version he's playing is 4th, which should not really be mentioned in relation with prior versions. Hasbro/WotC threw out basically everything that made earlier D&D distinctive (what...
• Commented on Killing BadWare via a Community
  I had a bad experience with a trojan just a week ago, but when I looked around for help, I found a surprising lack of good information. Symantec has stopped distributing free threat-specific removal tools, it seems. Most of the...
• Commented on Slate: How to Annoy Your Audience
  Slate is far from the first site to do this. I wouldn't be surprised if BoingBoing's done it in the past. I used to share your concerns about ad blocking. Then these ads you refer to started showing up everywhere,...
• Commented on Angry bored octopus goes wilding
  Yep, I've got a cousin who told the pet shop story too. Must be rather common....
• Commented on Sega developer logistically explains why modern Sonic games are terrible
  I'd say that the Sonic games are ripe for a non-traditional method of level implementation. Designing a complete 3D world is arguably too effort-intensive for a game like Sonic, so what they should do is NOT design a complete 3D...
• Commented on One More Go: New York Times Crosswords
  That is a remarkably poor clue, yes. (I would have filled in DIDDY and not thought twice about it, then complained bitterly when I got the crossing 'I'.) I find that nearly all pro crossword puzzle setters, even those in...
• Commented on Directly downwind faster than the wind - part 3
  I don't know myself, but in the example you gave, wouldn't it be possible to have a gear that prevents backward rotation from the propeller from being transmitted to the wheels?...
• Commented on Gandreas brings <em>Rogue</em> to iPhone
  I don't think a kestral has ever killed me. Now medusas, on the other hand.... What? A point? Er, I don't think I have one, sorry....
• Commented on Change.gov goes Creative Commons
  Hey, at least the President-elect's campaign even knows what the heck Creative Commons is and why it's important....
• Commented on "Getting naked in short selling"-New Video from American Public Media's Marketplace
  I thought it was a great explanation, and sent me off to find his previous videos....
• Commented on Oldest toy in Britain
  Awesome reference, MDH! As for the toy itself, it's kinda depressing. Poor kid died young, and was buried with his favorite toy. Brings me right down....
• Commented on Fan-readings from my essay collection "Content"
  Is the metacrap one the essay in which you finally snap over the incredible snark levels directed towards Boing Boing from the direction of Metafilter, and go after the place with a blowtorch?...
• Commented on Power On Self Test: The eyes have it
  It's blasphematastic!...
• Commented on Bad judgment in choice of kids' book cover
  I hate to say it, but I'm also with those who find nothing wrong with it. It's almost as bad as people who obsess about finding every possible sexual implication to X work of fiction, or assume long cylindrical shapes...
• Commented on Comcast limits customers to 250 gigs a month
  Wow, the number of Comcast apologists here is amazing. I'm surprised no one has yet written about the ever-more-entrenched culture of corporation-begging in the U.S., where people will actually PRAISE news of limits being handed out to them, and thank...
• Commented on Writer who photographed HP Lovecraft's headstone ordered to delete her photo, heaped with abuse
  Squank, what I've heard is that Lovecraft is that he recanted of those views later in his life, and those views weren't uncommon at the time. And Lovecraft was known to be a pretty nice guy in many respects, carrying...
• Commented on Freakazoid on DVD -- yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
  Cory a Freakazoid fan! I always knew there was some reason I liked him. It really is an awesome show, and the only think more amazing that it was made in the first place is the fact that it made...
• Commented on Soviet Winnie the Pooh cartoon
  These are wonderful, and so are most of the comments here. I had no idea most of these existed! Mt. Head's comment, in particular, makes me want to hunt these up. Hedgehog in the Fog! I gotta see it.... Ah!...
• Commented on Tilt: documentary about the valiant effort to save pinball by merging it with video games
  There were only two Pinball 2000 machines made: Star Wars Episode One and Revenge From Mars. There's a RFM machine no less than two miles from where I write this. It's poorly-maintained though, like at least 50% of the pinball...
• Commented on Rick "Rickroll" Astley interviewed
  I sincerely hope the next thing to come along isn't some version of goatseroll. (Personally, I've got my fingers cross for the return of duckroll.)...
• Commented on Wii locks comprehensively broken!
  I think that the effect of piracy upon console game has been greatly overstated. I've actually heard people say that it was piracy that killed the Dreamcast, which can play pirated CD-Rs. As a prior comment said, it certainly hasn't...