There was a point a few years ago when the city of Detroit did not have a single full-service grocery store (i.e. includes dairy, fresh produce, and meat) anywhere within the city limits. Even assuming a person had a car (and many do not) they would have had to drive 45 minutes or more to get actual food.

This happens…

I can see why he would though, the Civil War era lends itself well for the kind of experiment he's trying to run. The unit AI doesn't need to be as complicated when everyone is just being put in position to line up and lob musket fire at each other while you micromanage your cavalry. That way he gets to focus on the…

Let me explain something to you. The reason such caricatured depictions of non-White races is problematic in American culture is because America (and the Western world) has a history of systematically oppressing and disenfranchising non-White people. And not just within the country, White folks actually went out of…

Actually I have several female friends that I'd say have "Game." They're not really "ugly" but they're not really "hot" either.

I'm a man who would get a mani/pedi because all my hiking in the woods has thoroughly messed up my toenails. I would also get a facial because doing martial arts and regularly getting punched, kicked, and elbowed in the face has left some rough patches and scars. Also, absurdly short Muay Thai shorts are pretty…

Sadly I'm not sure UI design will improve any time soon. If it would I believe we'd have seen some semblance of concern for a decent or intuitive UI from either of these companies sometime over the many revisions of their software over the past few years. Xbox Live has been going for most of a decade and Microsoft has…

Sadly I'm not sure UI design will improve any time soon. If it would I believe we'd have seen some semblance of concern for a decent or intuitive UI from either of these companies sometime over the many revisions of their software over the past few years. Xbox Live has been going for most of a decade and Microsoft has…

It's hard to make a substantive point in 140 characters. It was destined to fail from the start. You can make a pithy statement, but fleshing out an argument is pretty much impossible.

Gen X came of age in the '90s and started working in the late '90s and early 2000s. Their early careers started with the tech boom back when having the most rudimentary computer skills was enough to get you a six figure salary with nary a college education.

Customarily, you don't draw attention to an aspect of a something unless it's germane to the point you're trying to make. So when you explicitly call out Odd Future as being "a rap collective" and then set that in opposition to being part of "the nerd crowd," then it's going to make sense that I understand that to…

This is sounding like a "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Any casual perusal of nerdier haunts like reddit will indicate that plenty of nerds are perfectly happy to indulge in racism, misogyny, misandry, religious or counter-religious bigotry, and a variety of other anti-social behaviors.

Just because they're a rap group they can't be nerds? The Wu Tang Clan is set up as an homage to old kung-fu movies (which is like Gen-X's equivalent of modern anime nerds.)

The Facebook bubble is popping, and the mobile space is more crowded than ever.

"No like" =/= "No buy" and it's facile to think so. People complained like this about the banning of smoking in planes and yet people still fly. Then they complained about banning it in restaurants and yet smokers still eat out. Then they complained about banning it in bars and yet smokers still go to bars.

Industries don't self-regulate better than third-parties. You're a blind idiot if you think you. The ESRB is a stupid PR stunt to stem a stupid non-issue so it doesn't matter. Nobody actually cares about whether kids play violent video games outside the people prone to moral panic. There actually are real world…

Hey if the argument is that it's not effective or presents health risks that's a worthwhile one. If the argument is "I just don't like looking at it" then that's just plain stupid and selfish.

I am so sorry that trying to safeguard an easily exploited population's health and safety "throws off what you want to feel" as you voluntarily elect to view them performing for your benefit.

Your life must be so hard you poor thing.

Married you will be no happier than single you.

As someone afflicted with chronic singletonosis, I can't count the amount of times I've had to handle stuff because everyone else rationalizes dumping work on me since I'm single. "(S)He can stay a little later I gotta pick my kids up" is a pretty common refrain. It even extends to having to help do favors in my…

To be honest, I could probably get away with posting game updates all day from the office too. It's just my sense of propriety that keeps me from playing games on office time.