MassivelyOP had been covering the strange behavior for a few weeks now. Here’s the last update they posted before today, which has links to their earlier stories:

The definition of “dorky” changes over the years, but The Doctor dressing like a dork almost never does. Except for the Ninth, who dressed like he’d break a pint glass over your head if he caught you wearing a City scarf in a United pub.

People’s Exhibit #37 in the case against doing whatever Perfect World Entertainment does. If you’ve ever played Star Trek Online or Neverwinter, you know what I mean: Any sufficiently rare lockbox drop gets shouted to the entire game from an unmuteable pop-up. One of the many reasons I gave up on them as a publisher.

The tolerance on the simulated camera weight, which just got a crew chief suspended and fined and wiped out the results of a driver’s race, is ± 100g in a ~1,500,000g car. A driver could add more weight getting the half-bucket of wings instead of a six-piece side. Sometimes, a bureaucrat just needs to justify himself.

The news is breaking just today that the iPhone X display has 120Hz touch sampling even though it’s still only a 60Hz refresh rate. That’s somewhat telling about the effect of 120Hz on battery life. Then again, Apple are sticklers for color accuracy. They probably couldn’t hit 120Hz for their cost/color performance…

That shouldn’t work either, because the IR grid projected by the phone would reflect back as the flat plane of the screen.

On the one hand, Apple headline clickbait.

Metacritic aggregates biases along with review scores. It seems that every review of a Playstation exclusive concentrates on the game, while every review of an Xbox exclusive starts with ten paragraphs of self-unaware Console War inside baseball before rushing through the review itself.

1979 Ford Pinto Wagon, fake wood trim and all. Good thing the national speed limit was still 55 in those days, because it had a nasty resonant vibration at 61.

Dirty little secret: The difference in household coverage between ESPN and NBCSN is less than 3% of all households.

Shhhh, you’re ruining the American media’s “We’ll never let the NHL win an argument even when, deep down, you know they’re right” narrative. They’ve worked too hard to recover from the “Who plays country music at an All-Star Game in Nashville?” debacle of 2016 to have you undo their progress.

1: NBCSN’s only local blackout window is Wednesday Night Rivalry. Last night’s game would have been on both NBCSN and AT&TSN Pittsburgh.

Put me down for a Zorg ZF-1. But only if it includes the little red button.

Even if it’s just the movies. PJ took some awkward narrative shortcuts in the movie adaptation, but he still got the point of Tolkien’s basic themes. These Mordor games are like horrible Warhammer fanfic with nothing but anti-heroes wearing Middle-earth name tags.

What everybody forgets in the whole RotTR debacle is that Microsoft’s original deal lumped PC in with the PS4. Yes, Microsoft Windows was going to have to wait a year for a Microsoft Xbox 3rd party exclusive. They had a “come to Jesus” moment with the mob of customers furious at being treated like competitors, and the…

Fastbacks aren’t the problem. Pseudo-fastbacks that still want to be sedans because Americans Don’t Buy Hatchbacks are the problem.

I’m here for the Klingon-detecting tribble as a Chekhov’s Gun, but I won’t go so far as to call it Chekhov’s Tribble. Too confusing.

The Nordiques owners didn’t want to replace Le Colisée at that time. They just wanted a bailout to cover their losses after the Canadian Dollar took a nosedive, and the city and provincial governments rightfully refused. The Oilers, Flames, and Jets all tried the same thing, and they got shot down, too. Edmonton and…

According to Nielsen’s 2016-17 DMA estimates, Seattle/Tacoma is 14th, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale is 16th. (And for the record, Houston is 8th, Atlanta 10th.)

Seattle/Tacoma is the 14th largest media market in the US, and the 3rd largest without an NHL team. (Only Houston and Atlanta are larger, and nobody’s trying hockey in ATL again for a long, long time.)