I started arguing online with people when I was 16, using a 1200 baud modem, logging onto bulletin board systems with forums and debating religion. Almost 30 years later, I can tell you all without a doubt that arguing on the internet is quite possibly the stupidest thing you can ever do. Also, Twitter is dumb.

Cabbages and Condoms is a blast. There’s no place like it anywhere. That said, my Thai gf told me the food there was not so good, and after learning to cook Thai and going to a lot of other places, I tend to agree. It’s a very touristy place. The food is good, but no better than most other places. But the place is…

I’ve been there 6 times.

I don’t understand why this is.  What law specifically states that if you don’t defend it in all cases, you lose the trademark?  If there is a law that requires that, why hasn’t a company sued to overturn it on free-speech grounds?

This is delightful, and a reminder of why I stopped learning German.

Lunch is important!

This is how I know I am out of touch with today’s youngsters. Back when I was a kid, and I had to walk to work both ways uphill, I listed to Drum and Bass, House, and all sorts of what you whippersnappers call “EDM” although at the time we called it “Techno”.

You don’t find blueprints to get a new ship.  To find one, you build a signal booster and then look for Distress Signals, which will guide you to a new ship you will have the option of switching to.  Usually they only have one or two more slots than what you have.

DON’T TOUCH THE EGGS!!!!

Oh for fuck’s sake, that list has been trotted out time and again, and also debunked. Half of the things on the list *were* in the game, the other half were added later, and everything else is easily debunked by the quotes I have *repeatedly* posted where Sean said that some things not in the game at launch would be…

I’m not sure if I want to spend time wandering the Gruuling streets of Ravnica.

Yes, I am comparing chopping down trees, transparent windows on spaceships, rotating planets and a worm to color swaps on armour. If you can’t see the similarities, I don’t know how to help you, but I will try.

If Reinhardt was shown in trailers for Overwatch with blue armor and the game shipped and it was green, it’s not reasonable to expect the folks who made Overwatch to state specifically that “Reinhardt will not be seen with blue armor and will be shipped with green” right before launch.

“How does that, in any way, prevent them from explaining what won’t be in the game a week or two before it launches?” It doesn’t prevent them. But you have not provided a good reason why they should if they are going to keep adding stuff in later updates. Which they did.  

Um, no, because it doesn’t. You apparently don’t understand the concept.

Because they didn’t even know what they were going to be able to have in the game when they made those statements. It’s a procedurally generated game. What, did you want a list of something like “Dinos, check. Giant Crabs, check. Sandworms, sorry you’ll have to wait? Or we might put em in the sky, we dunno yet?”

He LITERALLY said before launch that there would be no multiplayer in the game.

The articles out today are really fascinating and Sean really goes into detail about that whole process.  And you are exactly right...they were a team of 6 people creating a universe.  With pretty much no PR.  At the end of the day they delivered a solid game, and they are continuing to add to it.

““The only way to know what you look like is for another player to see you,” “So you can run into other players in this game?”, “Yes” exchange from his interview on the Colbert Report, for just one of many examples.” Yeah, and then he walked that back, because they didn’t have time to put it in the game. The code for…

Yep. It’s kindof insane how people still today keep pushing the belief that these people actively set out to actually defraud people. There’s a whole cadre of people who believe that Sean and co are actually “bad” people. It’s ridiculous.