Years ago, a friend of mine and I were out and we were looking for this one place at the ass end of town on MLK. It’s about 11pm on a Saturday, and he starts pulling a u turn and says “it’s gotta be back the way we came and it’s getting really dark down this way” And I was like “you racist bastard!” but seriously,…

Why, it’s almost as if we have a pattern-recognition engine running all the time we’re awake, noticing the similarities between things we’re thinking about now and thinks we have thought about before now!

I know, right, like LITERALLY the worst. THE. WORST. Worse than the motherfucking Holocaust. They’re worse than childhood bone cancer.

If your volumes are unencrypted, they can just as easily stick a USB stick in the system, and boot from that, which is why you should password protect BIOS as well, and don’t put USB in the boot order.

Why would it be tricky? In a date rape, it’s not always a guy absolutely forcing himself on someone. Sometimes, it’s a date gone horribly wrong and a gradually escalating situation that provides opportunities to press a button.

A device like this is useful for everyone. Not just women, but men, women, and children. Pretty much anyone who may find themselves needing law enforcement, from joggers to bank tellers.

The conclusion is foregone for exactly the same reason that we don't test each bottle of water for wetness. If you play games, watch films or tv, or read books, you're familiar with violence against women being used as window dressing on a cruel world. But a REAL cruel world is cruel to everyone, and it's not just…

At first, I was thinking, "how can a developer create a victim/antagonist scene in which empathy can be immediately given to the victim, creating an imperative to act in the player?" And my immediate thought was to make the victim a woman.

I sold used cars in 1996. We had 3 (THREE) 1988 Ford Tempos, all in burgundy, with AM radios and automatic transmissions. Asking price was 1800 dollars. It was impossible to sell them. Burgundy car with burgundy interior, and performance specs that could have been conceptualized by the Kellog brothers as an…

It's all spire.

That's an excellent point. And I love the Ender's Game reference.

At very least, there should be DLC that allows you to play as her, and starts with the heist that went down badly.

The thing about freedom is that other people don't have to make their products conform to the wishes of people who aren't consumers of the product. If you want to make a game that educates the public to the dangers of Product X or the consequences of drinking soda pop 11 times a day, make that game. Nobody gets to…

I've been to bars, dance clubs and steakhouses, many of which had a "ladies' night". So far, I've avoided digitally penetrating anyone without their express consent. Maybe I'm gay or something, I don't know. Consent seems to turn me on like crazy. However, I think I will invent a line of ladies' fashions that have…

A woman is exactly like a man, except they don't make good on bets or promises.

I don't play pirated games. Sometimes, (often) a friend will bring over a game and we'll play it together at my place, or I will bring a game to his place. A console which prohibits this practice is a console I won't buy. If I wanted that arrangement, I'd be a PC gamer. Consoles are for getting together WITH FRIENDS…

While normal people play violent games sometimes to relieve stress, sociopaths use them to act out fantasies. It's not the games that are the problem, it's the sociopaths.

"employee's duty of loyalty" ! Don't make me laugh. Would they argue that there is some reciprocal duty placed on the employer?

Lose the frunk and put in a 50hp gas generator and it would be useful forever. Well, if it had a gas tank. Gasoline has so much higher energy density than batteries that even if it only held 5 gallons of fuel, you'd double its range.