Good point.

Not that it would necessarily be public information, but is there any credible intelligence indicating that the threat of "9/11 style attacks" is anything but a complete bluff? There's an ocean of difference between stealing files that will hurt a corporation's bottom line, and murdering thousands of people, possibly…

Capitalism at work!

No, fear of getting yelled at is the reason to get out of one. But if you go all polyamorous in front of your theoretically committed lady you're getting a yelling for sure.

Have you ever been yelled at? It's the worst.

But, isn't wanting your wife to fuck you ALSO for you? I get that you were stressing a drive for personal betterment, but if sex is a result that's a personal reward. I mean, sex can be a scary thing when you're trying to navigate into, out of, or through a rocky relationship. But when you're in a stable committed…

That setup deserves a hilarious punchline, but I can't think of one that's not creepy.

My, that was a racy pun.

If she's already freezing him out I doubt implying infidelity is going to help. Instead of just being sexless he's going to be sexless and yelled at.

You're looking for the tail end of a long marriage.

A lot of video games these days are practically movies already. If you just splice together all the cut scenes you may be at the length of a feature film. For a Hollywood director, unless they have some stroke of genius to pull it together, it's a no-win situation. They're trying to truncate 20+ hours worth of…

The PvP will only be there as long as the playerbase is there. I haven't even attempted to play the first one in two years, but I don't think I'd have much luck finding an encounter at this point. Most players who have any interest have moved on to the sequel, and I'm guessing there's also a significant portion…

Hey, it works for "au jus". The dipping sauce is just thicker, with a lot more fat and calories.

Sure, but game development appears to be going in two directions. You've got your multiplayer coop/competitive experiences - Left4Dead, Battlefield, CoD, etc. Those typically have some sort of single player experience, but it's mostly an obligatory gesture or training tool.

I haven't finished the article yet, but you captured my interest within the first paragraph. Nice writing!

I've only briefly touched on the first Dark Souls. It didn't go well, but I intend to go back.

Applying that to all scenarios negates the possibility of therapy. That's not anonymous, but it is bringing in an uninvolved person for their objective analysis. Sometimes you need a moderator. In this case proposing relationship therapy to a 20-year-old who's hanging out with an ex that you've been with 3 months -…

Yeah, less butterfly effect from a single person. Even advanced AI can't parse the possibilities to ensure its own survival when you go back too far. It probably had a probability algorithm with some sort of cutoff. Plus the terminator didn't have any mass-destruction capabilities. It would be hard to destroy the…

I doubt the writers have ever gone this meta, but maybe all the messing with the timestream is actually causing different people to be made. Sperm don't last very long, so evenly a relatively minor interruption in the timeline that leads to Kyle and Sarah doing it could result in a totally different person.

A gaunt gaunt physique makes a lot more sense in the post-apocalypse. Ratburgers and cans of expired beans aren't conducive to a ripped physique. Your red-blooded American ladyness requires a modicum of continuity!