That's really . . . appalling. . . that he would just secretly revise the article and not cite the comments in the bottom in a "Corrections" addenda . . .

Uh oh, the rest of that sentence *now* reads, "(having really invented the idea with NES and SNES redesigns)."

*ahem*

Rinty thanks you for this clarification.

For better or worse, the first Amendment protects the right of an individual to be a member of any group or organization he or she chooses. Simply being a gang member is not a crime, the same way that being a member of a religious organization (e.g. a church, mosque, synagogue, gurdwara, etc.), a civic organization…

Yes, this is the sad truth. The reserve army of the unemployed is forever salivating at the factory gates.

Welcome to the world of contingent labor, my friend. Before you think about striking or changing the industry, you'll have to get in line behind the cab drivers, truck drivers, university professors, garment workers, home care nurses, gardeners, construction workers, and, well, everyone else in the world because, if…

"and to be clear, we also make money if you buy"

1. Nobody has anywhere close to perfect market knowledge of any single commodity, much less an entire sector of the economy like the console market, which is why markets fail. All the time. So yes, buyers of anything are never educated enough to make an informed decision—if they were, nobody would ever make any profit…

If my first console I ever buy is a Playstation 4, chances are I've never even heard of the PSOne much less any games that were ever released for it, so the used games scenario you've laid out here is nigh inconceivable.

What's that you say?? Cats killing huge rodents?? No, no—you've got it the wrong way around and most people would consider you a terrible person for saying such a thing! ;)

I see you like to make sweeping generalizations unsupported by any evidence, so all I will offer in terms of a rebuttal is my own anecdotal evidence, since you'd probably dismiss the tomes of theories on the plague I could offer that cite the influence of cats on its decline as not "accepted":

If I don't buy a new console during the first 2, 3, or 10 years of its production, games from the previous system will have long ceased production, thus making the issue of BC obsolete.

I quit a fully-paid 5 year PhD program at one of the largest schools in the country because graduate school was interfering with the amount of time I had to play video games guilt free.

"Hell yes! Bought my first console. Hmmmm, Better play Halo 1, a 13 year-old game 2 hardware generations removed before playing Halo 5."

If I'm a first time console buyer at this point, I'm much more likely to buy last gen first, to see if I even like consoles, before becoming an early adapter on a brand new system at three times the cost of the more established platform. This is whey the Playstation 2 was in production for a full 10 and almost the…

LOL, why the fuck would a first time console owner want backwards compatibility if its their FIRST CONSOLE?

Finally, someone who gets it . . .

That dog is so ghey. I want to punch him in his chortling, asthmatic, under-bitten, pan face.

For him or for her?