A thousand times yes. QFG2 was quite possibly the single greatest, and almost certainly the most influential, gaming experience of my life. I still play through that game every couple of years.

"According to Food Babe"

Argument by definition doesn't work particularly well here. Whether Australian law would consider this exchange of money for goods a "sale" is a question that would require some actual knowledge of the Australian law in question. I don't have that, and you obviously don't either.

Well that clears it up. Thank you for that well-informed reply.

No, I don't believe that her grandparents and social circle would be so accepting of the situation. That is where I said the credibility was lost— not with the idea that a father and daughter might enter into a clandestine relationship, but that the daughter's guardians and classmates would be willing to accept it. …

While I know nothing about the relevant Australian laws, I wonder if that might constitute "selling" the game and therefore be some kind of violation.

Yeah that's the part where it lost all credibility. I just don't believe that.

But... it's the plug that powers the hardware. You need it. More unsettling was the fact that the 3DS XL was sold in North America with an AC adapter. That's the sticking point that makes Nintendo's current claims ring false: In the past, it's included an AC adapter, so why stop?

No, they would not. Because it has become a convention— an unthinking linguistic tic that persists after its origins are forgotten. My point is simply that it's a lot more plausible to think of this tic as a holdover from a time not so long ago in which it made perfect sense and would usually be accurate to use to…

If one of us is making completely unfounded assertions here, it isn't me. My hypothesis is concededly speculative, but it's a lot better than "people adopt irrational linguistic conventions for no reason whatsoever," which is basically what you're offering. That's not even an explanation, and it flies in the face of…

Of course they didn't know, any more than you or I could trace the etymological origins of our own linguistic conventions. But the practice didn't come from nowhere, and between two competing hypotheses, one providing a plausible historical basis for the origin of the practice and the other effectively claiming that…

I have no doubt that they do. Having grown up in the south myself, I've encountered the convention from time to time. I still think my interpretation makes the most sense (and makes a certain kind of sense even as currently applied, e.g. "Walmart's [store]." I mean, it still sounds odd and isn't terribly logical…

I suspect it's actually a possessive rather than a plural, likely a convention dating back to the days of family proprietors whose shop names were in fact possessive.

Use of force to prevent an ongoing rape is clearly permissible under the common law of self defense. The fact that he kept hitting him after the immediate threat was over... well, the cops probably overlooked that bit of it.

How is that not basically what they said? The price will go up as supply declines; the only question is by how much.

False. Masturbatory rampages are sometimes quite rational. I speak from experience.

I'm sure Schafer has thought about this more than I have, but my initial reaction is that adventure games need to be rather tightly scripted to work. Linear narratives with a small number of ways to progress through the story seem like necessary parts of the genre; it seems like if you try to do an open world with…

I think you mean "reprehensible."

It's called gallows humor, and it's one way in which people deal with tragedy. It doesn't mean that people don't understand the seriousness of the issue; the very appeal is that because these are tragic stories, we use humor to create a safe psychic space in which to process them. Maybe it's not your thing; that's…

How is an "empty threat" not a "threat"? It's got the word "threat" right there in it!