sethmad commented on Your PS3 And 360 Are Killing Your Power Bills

"For about $30 you can get a powerstrip with a built in cut-off that powers down any peripherals when the main appliance is turned off."

sethmad commented on Ghostbusters Game Gets With The Jibber-Jabber

"480 pages, or four times the length of a two-hour movie script, is 8 hours."

sethmad commented on If The Cliffster Had A Nickel Everytime He Was Called A "Fag"...

"@lionkitten: Here here."

sethmad commented on The Most Successful Video Game Of All Time?

"Chris Early, the head of Windows Gaming, said at GDC that Solitaire and Minesweeper were specifically designed to teach people how to use the mouse/GUI."

sethmad commented on Can't We All Just Get Along?

"The problem isn't just anonymity. Like it or not, the hardcore gaming audience is still mostly young males."

sethmad commented on Spielberg Afraid of Over-The-Top Game Violence

"@vanderblade: Young children do NOT always have the ability to distinguish between reality and the virtual world, despite their parents' best attempts to elaborate on that distinction."

sethmad commented on Spielberg Afraid of Over-The-Top Game Violence

"A perfectly reasonable parenting technique. I don't hear him saying that the games that frighten him shouldn't exist or that no one should play them."

sethmad commented on Take-Two: CTA Won't Talk GTA

"When I saw the headline and first paragraph, I thought the article was going to say that Take-Two was suing the CTA for using an acronym too similar to the now-popular GTA."

sethmad commented on Where Are The Bagels? 8 Things GTA IV Gets Wrong About New York City

"Pointless rant: Why do so many New Yorkers think only rich Manhattanites own cars?"

sethmad commented on Spielberg Enjoys Playing Crysis, But Is That Enough?

"Often a project lead/executive producer kind of role doesn't need to be in the pit every day to still be the one making the lead creative decisions. Look at television: the executive producer of a show isn't on set every day, but he or she is the one who envisions how every aspect of the show should work and makes sure the team realizes the vision."