I've never seen philosophy referred to as a social science, by anybody or any institution. Are you confusing it with psychology? In case I was being stupid I checked the Wiki article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s… , but came up short. Experimental science uses observation as its exclusive method of…

Uh... no? Not by any common definition, and it isn't classified as such by academia - reputable universities, for instance. Science concerns itself with explaining and predicting observations of the universe. Philosophy may arguably concern itself to some extent with such questions, but its scope of inquiry is far…

Aside from your dodgy use of the word "Aristotelian", a term which doesn't accurately apply to logic post-1900... what you say is true. But I can't see how it's relevant to anything I personally said.

It's debated in philosophy. Quantum mechanics is a science. It's a model for making empirical predictions about the world. There isn't a debate about the science - either something does match observations or it does not, and quantum mechanics does, to a spectacular degree of accuracy and reliability. There is no…

Did you not read the article or something..? You sound very confused.

Sounds like a pretty great idea, to me. I've heard a lot of very cynical comments about kids building CPUs and such in Minecraft, but I think it's fantastic that they're getting into this stuff. And I think it's a sign of things to come. I imagine in a decade, you'll be able to plug in to a beautiful virtual world and…

"quantum mechanics is a highly debated area whose theories and conclusions are often very hotly debated"

I can see that being fun for all of ten seconds.

Who are you???

There were about 3 good puzzles in that entire game.

I need a new PC capable of gaming. If Valve are selling these things at a loss, then buying a Steam Machine'll be smarter than building my own. Plus I can't be bothered to do hours of research for each of the components.

What the fuck are you talking about? Somebody runs a stop sign and kills a woman, and you're bitching about how finding them at fault was some kind of miscarriage of justice? There's something wrong with your brain.

Do you... do you know what video games are?

When was the last time you looked at something real, Kotaku?

Uh. Yes, I know you can hack things. So what you're telling me is that the console niche will be PCs with a restrictive OS which you have to hack? You're just not making any sense. Stop getting upset.

So... exactly what I said then. Consoles will become PCs, just with restrictive OSs which can do less.

Yeah... then they turned it off.

We do remember to take our Alzheimers pills, right? I'm afraid that never happened, deary.

We've had Valve's internal team numbers, which includes a Half-Life 3 team, for months. A fake trademark doesn't change the fact that it's in development. There was no reason to get excited over this in the first place, it didn't tell us anything we didn't already know.

I presume they will range from substantially cheaper than next-gen consoles to a lot more expensive.