comparing the total number of job losses/new hires and saying everything is fine is bullshit:

I'm hoping it'll be sort of like Unreal World, the iron-age Finland survival sim. you spend most of your time doing subsistence hunting/trapping/fishing and building a cabin so you have a place to stay during the long boring winters with 20-hour nights where you can't do anything outside without snowshoes and a full…

same thing happened to me - I told all my infantry to attack the gate, they threw a few torches at it until it opened, then stood there in a big blob refusing to attack the gate or the enemy unit just inside it.

I knew someone like that in college, then someone suggested midori sour and she was like "this is really tasty" and a year later she was drinking beer and shitty student punch like everyone else.

AAA action games are not the place to look for smart social commentary.

Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.

first-person flying one of the current carrier-launched fighters would be an awful experience since they never get to shoot enemy fighters. it'd be all "follow this guy around and shoot whatever NPC he's targeting" or "shoot this undefended hostile station for an hour to capture it" or "dock up every 15 seconds…

if you think that's how it works, you're incredibly stupid and I see no reason to waste any more time on this discussion.

also the near total lack of competition. if the one cable company that serves your area sucks, what are you going to do? for most people, all they can do is switch to the one DSL company which will be just as bad.

if you cry because you lost to a "mouse aimer" in a plane that turns faster than yours, you're dumb and bad.

I have a $30 joystick and it has the main stick, 8-direction hat switch, 2 triggers, 4 thumb buttons on top of the stick, 6 buttons on the base, and an analog throttle slider thing for a total of 12 buttons plus throttle. a standard PS3 controller has (iirc) 2 thumbsticks, 2 triggers, 2 shoulder buttons, 4 d-pad…

full realism battles have proper flight models instead of the arcade easy mode, but they're not very popular (probably because the maps are big and you don't even see any enemies until 5-10 minutes in)

I have yet to encounter anyone who thinks WoWP is better than War Thunder.

I don't really get how a flight sim is going to be playable with a controller. if PS4 players are on the same server as PC players, it's going to be a total turkey shoot because the controller won't be able to do all the things that a mouse/keyboard or flight stick can.

I was replying to both of you. abuse of the system happens all the time, but not in the "welfare queens eating steak and lobster every day" strawman way.

my job posted a sign stating that they're a "tobacco-free company", got rid of the ashtray at the back entrance, and exiled the smokers to the office park pond several hundred feet away. the only effects this had are that smoke breaks now take longer, and we put our butts in a plastic bag hanging from a tree instead…

I'm not outraged because I've been there and can't blame them for playing the system for the meager amount it'll provide instead of taking some godawful minimum-wage job that pays less than unemployment/foodstamps (assuming they actually get regular hours instead of being constantly dicked over by their petty-tyrant…

if "abusing the system" includes selling your foodstamps, that's quite common due to the extreme difficulty of getting on actual welfare and housing aid. if you have no savings and no income, selling foodstamps is an easy and relatively risk-free way to be able to pay for rent, electricity, toilet paper, toothpaste,…

the original tonic water had a lot more quinine than what you can get now - you'd have to drink 2-4 liters a day to get a therapeutic dose. that's an awful lot of gin&tonics!

another fact: a white guy with a felony conviction is more likely to get a callback on a job application than a black guy with an identical resume and no criminal record: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/20/art…