Really Big Review Remix

Through my internet vagabondage, I often see people discussing game reviews for big titles. As for myself, I've never seen reviews as a personal attack on a franchise I enjoy, as everyone seems to think they are. If I happen to find myself choosing to read a review(s) (not too often), I'm doing it so I may learn what the game is like, and whether or not it's worth it for me. I extract the necessary information from the review in order to form an idea of what the game will be like. Any opinion stated in the article I will consider, but take with a grain of salt, and certainly won't take it personally. People who bicker about game reviews are missing the point of the whole thing, especially when, in a lonely bout of social desperation, they hastily blurt out "Did you hear? GaemSiteX gave PopularFranchiseX a 7.5! How dare they!". At that point they're just advertising GameSiteX for free, for GameSiteX, and thusly GameSiteX gets tons of traffic, and therefore money. The whole review numbering/rating system is also a sham - numbers don't really matter when there are so many aspects of a single game. If you want to know what a game is like, you're not going to buy a game just because it's a "10" - you'll read several reviews, research, and watch videos. Reviews themselves have now become a source of hollow entertainment rather than enlightenment.
But on the sunny side the gaming globe,

Recently I heard about this Steam game called Really Big Sky. I don't normally pay attention to Steam or PC games, but this one is exceptionally pretty, and the music is lovely - you can download the soundtrack for free here. At first it reminded me simultaneously of BIT.TRIP because of the 'retro' font, and Rez - both because of the dark background and great music. I have yet to play Child of Eden.

Some VG, Science, and Politricks links after the break.

VG

Zelda 25th Anniversary remix album
Metroid 25th Anniversary remix album
Signs from the HGSS Pokémon World
link stuffs by *WakaBee
Minecraft 1.0 Review
Nintendo Preview Music Jam
Ace Attorney movie
Pixel Art: The End of an Era?

SCIENCE

Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson
The world is not scientifically literate, so we must change the way children are raised, along with the education system.

"There is no permanent human presence at the North Pole, and no particular time zone has been assigned. Polar expeditions may use any time zone that is convenient, such as GMT, or the time zone of the country they departed from."

Wikipedia

POLITRICKS

The United States of America is a Police State

'[Minister Michael Ellick] refers to the Gospel as the “macabre, science fiction Enlightenment.”'

NYRblog

Facebook Timeline vs. Google Plus (Social Network Parody)