No that's not what a hobby is. My music lover friends don't bitch and moan that there isn't any good music out there any more. They just look for good music and if they don't find any they say "I'm not really listening to anything right now." It still seems to me like you're looking for games to play rather than…

I noticed this even before the shootings. A LOT of our games these days seem to center on killing people/things right now. I'm a bit bored by it frankly. Or, alternatively, they will issue you a challenge to refrain from murdering your way to the goal (like Deus Ex) but that still obsesses with the act of killing in…

Color me surprised! I did not think it would have worked very well at deterring them.

"I am cautious to ask you this, but when you said 'don't play at all', are you making the argument "stop playing games and find another hobby"? If you are, then arguing with you is pointless and I'm going to stop replying."

I can see why someone might do it, I'm just skeptical that it would actually help. I think skeevy creepers, as a rule, don't pay much attention to hints suggesting you want nothing to do with them. So when I see it I assume it's just someone who is really jaded by this whole enterprise.

The greatest irony I've found is that the ones I really wouldn't mind picking up the tab for, like girls who are interning or grad. Students and don't have much income coming in, are often the ones that are keen on splitting the checks. The ones with who are stably and gainfully employed who should be willing to split…

It had to be Atlanta didn't it. . .

One thing to keep in mind is that my experiences are probably atypical for most men.

I've come across many many profiles that are basically the flip-side of the stuff in this tumblr. A bunch of girls who have quite obviously recently been spurned asking for guys who "aren't like the rest" or guys who won't cheat on them or saying "Don't message me if all you want is to hook up" and other implications…

This too sounds to me like post hoc rationalization. It's very easy to decide something looks weird and come up with a notion as to why, but I'm just not sure it's borne out. Most people with motion interpolation on their TVs get used to it.

TBH the value-addition of improving graphics is probably going to get smaller over the next few years. I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't get to a point where cheap integrated GPUs will be able to run most new PC games at passable settings.

That seems plausible, but I think we're also partly spoiled by CGI as it was. Back in the day you had special effects done with cheap prosthetics and claymation and people were fine with it. It didn't break their suspension of disbelief in the least.

I have friends with TVs that have the motion interpolation. It seems fine after a few weeks once you get used to it. I honestly think that if people didn't have the "soap opera" effect it wouldn't look so weird. We're very used to the framerates the way they are. BlueGeek has a more plausible explanation. In soap…

And the number of people who care will still be about 1% of the market.

This sounds like post hoc rationalization to me. I think people are just put off by the fact that its different and grasping at straws to justify it.

It's looking more and more like God did it.

Bring me a binder and it shall be so.

Developers want their apps to stand out. Users want their apps to shut up and do as they're told. The trouble with open app eco-systems is that the developer wins the fight and you have a bunch of apps all cluttering up your screen vying for your attention. The entire reason for the success of OSX and iOS has been…

I'm not that old, being only 27, so I cannot comment. I could ask him but sadly we've fallen out of touch.

Dude, I don't know how old either of you are, but I'm going to assume it's been about a decade since either of you were undergrads. In which case: