Completely off-topic— Noticing the striking resemblance between Lincoln and Bill Nye.

Er. So you're saying that had Kotaku titled the post, "Borderlands 2 Tips Its Cap to a Fan Favorite With This Easter Egg"... you wouldn't have clicked it?

I've had feedback on my cell phone that accomplishes this as well. You don't feel like you CAN'T talk, it's just so unbelievably distracting that going even 5 or 10 seconds requires a profound force of will.

In the first post he says that he had to learn the name of the character from Wikipedia.

Well, sure— in human culture our understanding of traditions and history are often going to be idealized. The stories we tell about ourselves are always going to be touched up a bit— but that doesn't change the distinction between Bushido as being self-codified and ninja lore as being projected, does it?

*cough*

I'd be desperately trying to talk Hugh Laurie into doing this role if I were tasked with the casting.

Oo

Isn't it simply relevant because she was playing the game while these thoughts were percolating? I really don't think anything more is required.

Well, "bushido" is more like the result of a bunch of samurai sitting around realizing there's a whole lot of mores, arts, and martial arts that, whoa, actually kind of have a consistent philosophy when you really think about it and why don't we give it all a name?

The first images sent back by the rover were Hazcam images taken by black and white cameras which are primarily used for hazard avoidance.

No, Star Trek transporters *do* use destructive copying. Remember, a key component of the Star Trek transporter is the "pattern buffer," which stores the scanned pattern of each individual that's being teleported in a computational substrate. Hence, once you disappear in the transporter beam, you are data in a…

There are places where you're pretty much *guaranteed* to find squatters, and there are places you won't ever find them.

There's quite a bit of room in those toilets, honestly. You have... room to expand.

That's her boyfriend's head. She, um, cut it off his zombifying body.

American and British accents were closer together then, certainly, but linguistic evidence suggests that the American accent had actually changed less over the course of the colonization than the British accent had over the same timeframe.

And yet you decided to type it anyway.

I respec fairly regularly— the cost of doing so doesn't really get prohibitive until you've done it 5 or more times in a week, so it's not *so* bad.

Erm. I assume you're talking about each mirrored class as one class— but you're still wrong. There are 3 advanced classes that can spec for healing, and 3 that can spec for tanking.

Reminds me of the Fruits Basket opening, actually...