On the upside, games still cost $60, which is mind-boggling considering the rise in cost of making games from when MSRP first became $60.

THANK GOODNESS! He's not buying the hype. He knows that Metacritic is broken nonsense that actually hurts video games.

So there's a big caveat to all that follows. I can't prove its true. I can't prove that the stories he told me about how he'd deceive people to get personal information are real. I nevertheless believe it's important to try to understand this murkier side of one of the most notorious and dangerous forms of modern…

Unfortunately, that's kind of true. That's why banks have more security than bakeries. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst of humanity.

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False equivalency, unfortunately. If the world was made of CDProjektRed's and action-RPGs and all companies were the same scale and funded congruently and everything else was the same, then yes, Witcher 3 would be a damning comparison. I will never play Witcher 3, but i would play Evolve, and this is how you fund…

If we want affordable video games, why are we so angry about day-one and cosmetic DLC? Do we think that content comes out of thin air, or that people don't want to keep their jobs after working on a game that costs a lot more to make now but costs the same to buy as 5 years ago?

I know, accounting for legal practicalities as well as technical and business practicalities when making/selling a product: SO CRAZY.

U.S. IP laws compel active defense of your marks. Or would it be better to let someone who happened to be first to file successfully just sit on his throne of marks until he arbitrarily smacks down an unknowing user from time to time? If this guy can afford lawyers, he can afford to have a mark search conducted when…

It's true, and it's a good rule: to require that people actively protect their trademarks rather than just successfully get an application approved and then sit on it forever until they deign to descend therefrom to smack one unlucky name user arbitrarily.

It's Fall Out Boy. When i see that, i always think of meh music and not the glorious Fallout universe. The space in between is the glasses of Clark Kent/Superman.

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You are unfortunately missing the effort math of (Read what you wrote + Improve my understanding of economics + Increase common sense) > (Judge this move by Nordic Games as ridiculous + Comment accordingly), where Effort is omg-come-onnnnn.

It is. It's about the recipient, not the giver's sad baller-ness based on chocolate expertise.

Same goes for "premium" fanboys/girls. Spend your own money however you want, but looking down on buying store-quality chocolate is a bit haughty when (a) it's just a different road to obesity and (b) it's all a lot of people can afford to fulfill the unique expectations in every relationship. Ranking the value of the…

Tastes like shit too.

And once all of that is over, fill your freezer with horrible chocolate from the clearance carts at Walmart, because self-love is cheap.

Sometimes groans > guffaws, right?

Yeah! Besides, homeboy in the video wasn't just a meathead; his box of belongings said "BOOKS"! If he was a soulless hunk, would he have so many books they'd fill a box? Come on bro...

Betas IRL would be hilarious for social/communication patches and horrifying for motor skill/navigation patches.