Good God Archive

  • Review: Koi Cheese Flavored Japanese Doritos

    Review: Koi Cheese Flavored Japanese Doritos

    So J-List sent me a box of stuff including some (good God) onacups [NSFW]. While I’m debating whether to “review” those devices, I’d like to tell you about Japanese Doritos. Basically these are heart-shaped Doritos. The weird thing is that they’re thicker than American Doritos and actually have an odd, sweet taste that is not unpleasant. [...]

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  • Video game addiction is hard

    Video game addiction is hard

    Good God. There's an article that was published on Green Pixels not too long ago that discussed video game addiction. It's your standard-issue “question” piece, where the writer asks a question—can video games be addictive?—and goes to a variety of experts, be they doctors, industry executives, and whatnot, and tries to ascertain their opinion. What's insane, however, is this retort (of sorts) by Neils Clark, who co-wrote the book Game Adiction: The Experience and the Effects, which was published in May. He also teaches at Digipen.

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  • Hanappa: Sega Toys to offer yet another plant listening to your sorrows

    Hanappa: Sega Toys to offer yet another plant listening to your sorrows

    I blogged about Sega Toys' Pekoppa, the plant that listens and reacts to everything a person says, exactly 12 months ago. And the toy seems to have become a hit since then, as Sega Toys today announced the Hanappa, a Pekoppa 2 of sorts [JP, PDF].

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