My view of it was that Gollum was fairly crazy and evil, and figured that he'd be able to eat Bilbo even if he won the riddle contest, since Bilbo wouldn't know the way out anyway. It's playing with his food.

" Timing and business are the key factors. Nintendo and the companies making these games have to want these games to be on the Wii U. "

Because it's been spun as being godly and morally upright to hold this position against the endless hordes of liberals and their non-Fox mainstream media missiles. Since such comments are inevitably contested (usually because they're horribly wrong on the facts), there's an ever-present story of being the victim that…

Who says it's just a troll? If I were in South Carolina, I'd want Colbert. Comedians usually have a pretty good perspective on the problems in the system - that's where their jokes come from.

Sure, but you're still not making that trip to Toys'R'Us as frequently as you're going to Wal-Mart. How many times did you go to Wal-mart/Target/big box/grocery store this month? How many times did you go to Toys'R'Us? For most people, the Wal-mart number is going to be a lot higher - which means Toys'R'Us is going…

"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"

Because it's a specialized store, which means less foot traffic. People go to a Wal-Mart all the time - for food, tools, appliances, clothes, and toys, amongst other things. They can get toys there as an impulse purchase, or as part of a larger Wal-Mart trip. People won't visit a Toys'R'Us once a week or more just…

You know, as much as I don't usually go in for the whole "Kotaku has an anti-Nintendo bias", checking users online at 11:30am EST, when virtually all of North America is either headed to work/school or is already there, seems an awful lot like deliberate spin, or really poor methodology. Perhaps we could get a check…

Fair enough - "I see your reading comprehension is at a very low level... Go back to first grade and learn how to read before you have a discussion with the grown-ups." is more being a jerk than yelling.

Because we, as a species, have recognized that there's scientific value in biological diversity, even if a particular species is not equipped to survive in the current environment. A particular species may secrete a useful chemical, or give insight into biological processes. Regeneration, silk spinning, digestion of…

I googled it. The consensus is that minor issues in methodology were spun by creationists as being a huge fraud. Scientists promptly went back to the study, retested the hypothesis by examining moth predation rates in industrial and natural settings, and reached the same results, vindicating the original conclusion…

This isn't a news site, first of all. It's not strict objective journalism, it's observation AND commentary.

"Chalk off FetLife, a members-only social network run by and for fetish enthusiasts, as yet another purportedly non-judgmental, welcoming online community that hosts a shocking number of slut-shaming misogynist assholes."

No, they don't owe their players squat. But if they want to make money, they'll listen to the people they want to become customers again. It's supply and demand at the most basic level - in order to generate demand, you have to have a supply of something people WANT.

As has been beaten to death by many comments, the problem was not lack of 'ice cream and rainbows', it was the utter lack of impact your efforts had on an ending marketed as being the result OF all those efforts.

Truth is more than whether a statement is factually correct. "I have a plan to create X million jobs" may be factually correct - the candidate may have a plan to create X million jobs. But if that plan is based on demonstrably false assumptions, or counts jobs that someone else created, or ignores that there'll be a…

It's a chicken and the egg scenario - the media isn't going to waste time covering the people who have no shot of winning, and the other candidates have little shot of winning without media coverage.

Partly because the two major parties have considerable funds to devote to stifling competition, partly because the third parties haven't mobilized their advantages to make ANY headway. The number of candidates elected to even -state- offices by third parties in the last 40 years can be counted on two hands. With…

"Could she be a threat to the two war parties?"