The AAA developers and distributors already know about you, Jeff, in the broader sense that “you” are the part of the customer base that won’t buy the game at launch, and will wait for the base game to be discounted, or the full game (base plus all DLC) to be re-released some time later. You are already part of the…

Fuckin’ marginal tax rates, how do they work?

For all your doomsaying, I have to say, you lack of imagination is astounding.

I hate to say it, and I have no way to know for sure, but I suspect your machine won’t run WoW Classic either. It’s not like they’re just pulling an old DVD-ROM out of a desk drawer and reinstalling it.

You got a source on that, chief, or is this an ethics in gaming journalism kind of thing?

I restarted after the update. My starting planet was radioactive, with additional radiation storms just for funsies, very little cover, my hazard protection was at about 50% to begin with, and I didn’t realize that they’d changed the conditions of the beginning of the game so that you had to fix your scanner before…

I think the difference (besides umps not often calling batters back) is that, unlike most of the hitters in that link, Barnes at least pulled in his elbows to his ribs.

IOW, dodgy as fuck

Hello, 999? Yes, I’d like to report a murder...

Oh dear. Get well, Mike.

He has a kindliness and patience with the kids that’s impossible to fake. Just watch the other hosts to see what I mean. He clearly switches into dad mode. He won a well-deserved Emmy for that show.

17000 isn’t a small sample size. A poll of 17000 has a margin of error of less than 1%.

Yeah, that’s the rue meaning of Heathers, right there. Jesus Fucking Christ.

Goddamn will someone tell me why I keep smoking these?

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug

Way to bury the lede

“Exception that proves the rule” isn’t a way to hand wave away some inconvenient counter-example. There are ways* to use the success of the “Classic” line to prove a general rule about the disinterest in backward compatibility, but this isn’t it.

Summer 1980 called. They want you to know that, yes, Vader really is Luke’s father.

sounds like a Left Behind novel

No, no, no, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Shh.