I was unable to work alongside my ex — whom I’d practically shared a mind-meld with, prior to getting involved — for six months after we broke up. Definitely not worth it.

My dentist always told me this. And because I didn’t listen to my dentist — especially about flossing — now my periodontist tells me. (And now I listen.)

This is hilariously bad advice from someone who communicates for a living.

Since Apple is allowing third party manufacturers to make their own controls for Apple TV, I’d say it depends on whether someone with a lot of pull creates a compelling controller (or, especially, ones that can be used jointly for multiplayer gaming). I’m at the point in my life/family where buying a gaming console…

There are far fewer of those, especially in the top level expansion zones (which you can instantly level one character up to the minimum level for, when you buy the new expansion), but they still do exist.

He’s a mega-badass — this article doesn’t even touch on his live remotes from atop London rooftops as the Germans were bombing during the Blitz — and his name on an award is a pretty cool thing to have, independent of the merits of the award itself. So, yeah.

I’m showing my age, and the DC-centrism of my youth, but I grew up with Black Lightning in my JLA and Outsider comics, Black Racer in my (reprinted) New Gods and Black Vulcan on my Superfriends TV show. In every case, I felt like (as a white guy, obviously), highlighting the character’s race diminished the character,…

As a straight, white, raised-Christian, hetero, fully-abled male comic book reader, I am aware that I’ll never get the need to see my face represented in media in my lifetime — it’ll just be there. But there’s a value in increasing diversity in comics and other media for everyone.

Here’s hoping they also come out with a tablet version, which they did — complete with portal and console-style controller — for Trap Team.

EverQuest 1, which never even had a million simultaneous subscriptions, is still going and producing expansions. World of Warcraft isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

Newspapers used to be full of alcoholics and chain smokers. (The first thing I was given at my first newspaper job in the 1990s was an ashtray, even before I got a desk.) Today, the alcoholics are either dead, fired or hide it pretty well and most of us have quit smoking, except for one or two reporters who are always…

Lack of playable content in 6.1, which was mostly a quality of life patch. It was better than it was perceived to be before it dropped, but still not enough to bridge the gap until 6.2. Pretty sure Blizzard knew this would be a problem but, for whatever reason, didn’t want to delay 6.1 any longer than they had.

Meh. They’re about to hit the reset button anyway. It’s hard to know how long this will last — it could be rolled back in a matter of weeks.

Yes. I've only ever used this method to hide channels — I didn't know there was another way — and the Apple Events channel popped up in time for the Apple Watch event just fine.

You might want to omit the Strunk & White link. Most of the book is about Strunk's personal style choices, some of which are hilariously dated and others of which are very ideosyncratic.

Not to mention the all important "why would you film this in vertical, since you end up cutting out a lot of the animatronic to do so?"

The most interesting thing about an all-trolls matchmaking queue, to me, would be the possibility of rolling it out to other Blizzard games as well.

I don't think it's that they don't give a shit about Warcraft IV so much as the people who would form the core of that team are working on Starcraft II.

The Warcraft games have always had canonical winners and losers, no matter how they played out at home. WoW isn't a change in that regard, other than sometimes deciding that the person who beat a specific villain, like Onyxia, is actually a prominent NPC (Varian Wrynn) rather than the player characters.

Not really. Each of the races from War3 still has a strong presence in current WoW, and War3 was fine with not showing races that had been seen before — no gnomes, for instance, despite them being in War2. There's plenty of contemporary stories that could be told with War3 units alone. I can't wait to see someone…