The biggest difference is the entry price point. Microsoft wanted you to drop $500 dollars on a box with all those restrictions. This service runs on hardware people already own. The only committment is a monthly subscription fee, which you can cancel if you decide you don't like the service. 

Think of it like Netflix: all of the actual content is hosted offsite on a server farm which does all of the graphical rendering as well. The only thing your local device needs to do is receive a video feed of the action and send back controller inputs. The content is the same regardless of what you’re playing it on -…

Also very different from the Canadian legal system. Western legal systems generally tend to place a greater emphasis on individual rights than the legal systems of eastern countries, where state authorities are given greater deference. Japanese criminal trials, for example, do not use citizen juries (a judge…

Japan has a very different legal system than the United States.

An actor got caught with a small amount of cocaine. Calm down, Nancy Reagan. This isn't really a big deal. Certainly not big enough to halt sales of an entire fucking game. At most, the studio should issue a public apology and ask him to go to rehab. Anything beyond that is just reactionary hysteria.

They’re halting sales of an entire game because one of the voice actors got caught doing a small amount of blow?

This. NMS (especially in creative mode) is the perfect chillout game. I play it often to unwind after a stressful workday.

No Man’s Sky is a great chillout game. Gorgeous visuals, (literally) endless exploration, nice ambient soundtrack. And you can play it in a optional “creative mode” - which gives you unlimited fuel and resources so you can do anything you want without any grinding. I spend hours just building unique bases on planets…

I loved BotW and the Shrine puzzles but part of me misses the traditional themed dungeons. All of the Shrines use same Ancient tech architecture style, which gets repetitive after awhile. I would have liked to see more environmental variety in the Shrines.

“I read that they were shooting for 5 minutes time from picking out the car to signing the paperwork.”

This is apparently a thing when you get older. You need less calories, get less hungry, and eventually you’re just having one large early supper at like 5, which pretty much tides you over for a day. You might have something light for breakfast but that’s it. My mom is in her 70s and her daily meals consist of a…

I’m pretty sure it’s been perceived as an elite university for at least a half-century, if not longer.

Mayo is a crutch that shitty burger joints use to cheaply moisten-up their overcooked, low quality beef and dry buns. A proper burger will get all the moisture it needs from the patty itself.

I've had "proper" fresh made French mayo. It lacks the chemical taste of the store bought stuff, but it still tastes like shit to me.

My girlfriend loves ranch even though she’s lactose intolerant and it literally gives her diarrhea every single time she eats even a small amount of it or any other dairy-based condiment. Whenever she’s having stomach issues, we have to go through this song and dance where she lists all the previous day’s meals and…

Ummm.... U Chicago is also an exclusive, elite university.

I love this game. My only complaint about it is that the Divine Beasts and most of the shrine puzzles aren’t challenging enough.

I don't have the time or money to see every movie, so I do rely on RT to a certain extent to filter out the garbage. But only the critic reviews. User scores are utterly meaningless.

This is my problem with games like this. The focus is on collecting loot, rather than adding interesting storylines or new gameplay tweaks. 

I didn’t see any of this year’s Best Picture nominees, but I still want to have an angry opinion about the award. Help.