Another thing I liked about those in-game manuals was that reading one of them was like reading a synopsis of game design philosophy. The fact that those manuals were open about the concept of gameplay loops was incredible to me, and I loved understanding how that simple concept could balloon out into a rich variety…

The problem only compounded when the series moved away from the Puppeteer control concept. Even if that wasn’t perfect, at least it was a system and made some kind of sense. The top button did stuff with your head, the bottom button did stuff with your feet, and the side buttons were hands. The positions of those…

Yeah, if he got hold of McGregor he could do plenty of damage, but McGregor also knows how to do damage. Sometimes it comes down to what people are willing to sacrifice in exchange for winning a fight, and obviously if they’re just casually sparring, neither is going to want risk injuring themselves.

It isn’t that hard to throw someone who’s bigger than you, especially when their center of gravity is as high as Bjornsson’s. Legs are an easy target. Watching them playing around I kept seeing a lot of great opportunities for McGregor to do some inner reaps or ankle trips. Bjornsson has a lot of weight to throw…

Looks like he’s just reacting to stuff that comes at him without really knowing what to do to follow up. If I were to hazard a guess, it looks like he knows a few things that he COULD do but hasn’t gotten to the point where he can decide and execute something in a timely manner.

I was vaguely disappointed that it didn’t fall from the sky a few moments later.

I keep reading Old Steve’s lines in Michael Ironsides’ voice.

I’m no No Man’s Sky junkie, but I feel like I’ve heard more from No Man’s Sky in the last two or so months than I have in the entirety of its development. Someone I didn’t even know followed that kind of game even asked me about it (in person) a few weeks ago. It had a bit on Colbert’s Late Show, for crying out loud.

Two ways to use eggs in your ramen:

It’s almost like the Battlefront beta only has two maps or something.

Rebels ARE capable of completely steamrolling the Empire on that map. It’s not easy and it doesn’t happen often, but it’s absolutely possible.

As annoying as people using phones to film in the wrong orientation can be, I think the real tragedy is that a landscape orientation might have gotten both planes in the same frame during the pass.

... you tell your bestest bestie to burn it all after you die. Then when you die he promptly turns around and publishes it all. Thanks Max!

Each of those PR statements from Microsoft and Activision conjures vivid images of a man in a dimly-lit room sitting on a stool in front of a beige concrete wall reading woodenly from a prepared note with a gun to his head.

I have to object to points 5, 7, and 9.

You can go to http://fansubdb.com/wiki/Autumn_20… for a list of the shows from this season and where you can find them, as well as particular info about the simulcasts deals you might need to know (a number of shows are on delay).

I need C spacers, but they’re basically never on sale :(

I need C spacers, but they’re basically never on sale :(

Yeah, it was cloudy for the initial full eclipse for me, but later on the clouds cleared some and I could see it. I’m pretty sure my poor neighbors were out watching the eclipse and gave up while the clouds were still covering it. :(

Well, it’s basically the same as tip-based income in that regard. There’s nothing inherently wrong with tips themselves—people should be rewarded for working hard and putting up with difficult situations. The problem comes when the income from tips is the difference between a livable income and poverty.

Any halfway decent statistician could find a reasonable way to incorporate yes/not yet/no into a numerical aggregate.