I've worked in 3 building in NYC and none of them have had a 13th floor button.

Port Norfolk also goes from pier 12 to 14. Seafaring types are even more superstitious than building types, so I'm betting there's a few more missing pier 13's as well.

Yeah, it's a long running thing in architecture. Many buildings have omitted labelling the 13th floor of a building due to the bad luck superstitious attached to the number. No different than in many East Asian countries that have omitted the number 4 (and it's derivatives) from buildings, as it's associated with bad…

Not sure I understand? When buildings get made, they skip the number thirteen when numbering the floors, so that the floors go 11, 12, 14, 15. The "14th floor", then, is really the 13th floor, just named different for superstitious reasons. But maybe you were joking.

Hey man, if this doesn't have Doink, I'm not buying....

Oh please. I am a doctor and I know there is little basis for a "musculoskeletal" educated guess about which is ergonomically better. The truth is that the brain itself is so flexible that we become comfortable with virtually any half way decent controller. This it born out by looking at fMRI scans of people who…

He's calling it 'war' because that's what it is. Billions of ad dollars are going to be spent trying to get our collective attentions on one machine or the other. Some will have the luxury of choosing both. Most will not. Because of this, fierce competition between the two will drive gamers to make choices at the…

Damn, it's like you completely missed the point.

Actually, that recording is only stating that Ellie's mutation is completely different to any they've examined before.

Wow! Can you say "Naaaailed it!".

If it's as simple as that, it's offensive, yes, but that's over-simplifying this situation. It's nothing conclusive, but it has a point. That point is: if something is potentially offensive to a certain race or group, if you're finding yourself much more offended and much more uncomfortable than they are, or if it's…

There's a massive difference between clearly racist behaviour from a police force which is capable of causing real harm to someone, and imagined racist behaviour from Just Some Guy.

But that's EXACTLY what you're doing. You're being racist because your implication is that the person you're taking offence *for* is incapable of defending themselves against what you perceive as racism.

I agree with what you are saying. Personally though, I find it even more racist that white people are saying that only black people say things like that. I mean, think about it, if you're (you're referring to those that started this crap about TT being racist) implying that only black people can use and do use lingo…

Yeah, I know what you mean. I remember a while ago, In response to something dumb happening, I mocked it in a very backwoods, uneducated hillfolk accent. Something that to me was extremely white, and suddenly people started calling me a racist for making fun of black people and I was like "hoooly crap, no YOU are…

+1

Well, I guess now we've come to somewhat of an understanding. My bad for being defensive, I guess, since I thought you were trying to do a "Thank You For Smoking" style argument like what is so common on Kotaku. My apologies.

This.

Except if the race in question isn't bothered about it, is it really racist? This is a symptom of overly sensitive apologist white people feeling the need to jump to the defense.

Sure, you're entitled to feel that this is racism, and so is everyone else that does, but for the rest of us it simply does not appear to be racism whatsoever. Tiny Tina is a fictional character, but she's a product of her environment. Somewhere, she picked this up and it's her choice to use it. This is beside the…