@Matt Sussman: It's a secret to everybody.
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@kazooie: I've always disliked Trekker. I grew up in a Trekkie household and that's the term I'll continue to use.
@Koztah: +1 for STIV quote.
@BubbleF**kingBuddy: I remember hearing a similar comment Olbermann made about California's Proclamation 8 that made me both happy to hear him say it and sad that he had to say it.
@Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: I'm pretty sure they're typical blinds advertised to a game-playing demographic. Which direction they slide, or how much ambient light they let in, is just a general feature one can choose when blind-shopping (though I imagine up is a relatively expensive direction).
@Flagina: The mushroom things are Amarr titan ships, called Avatars.
I don't know if this constitutes nitpicky grammar-nazism, and I apologize if it does, but the opening line lists Ardi as 44 million years old instead of 4.4 million. I know the odds of io9 being read by someone who'd take that at face-value and run with it (it's pre-jump so you can see it from the main page) are…
@SeattleTed is proud to like Robert Zimmerman: I feel for ya. I came home from work yesterday to find the power regulator blew on my mobo. So much for fancy vidya games until my now-anticipated newegg delivery.
@AncientUnknown1: "Fudging" doesn't begin to describe what I'm about to do to my qualifications.
@saintvsop: It's especially frustrating because this is far from his first article, and yet the comments appear again and again. For the sake of my belief in considerate people I have to assume it's not the same commenters complaining after every one.
@FawkesLament: As I understand it the "system" here is that level names (a la "Memory Sequence 7") are part of the fiction's world-building, but give the appearance of meta-game counting (a la "World 1-3"). Assassin's Creed [1] trained you to think it was okay to assume they were synonymous; Assassin's Creed 2 took…
@KaneTaker: Join a warband and ask someone. I'm honestly not trying to be a jerk; that's all it takes. I don't monitor players' levels in my warbands, but I always apprentice if I see someone ask. #warhammeronline
@sheepofdoom: I'm certainly not saying Dragon Age (or its spiritual predecessors) are only worthwhile as cooperative games, but Baldur's Gate did in fact support online coop and was quite fun. I used to play with my friend all the time in high school. He was a Ranger and I was a Bard with an itchy Ring of Animal…
@DranzerKire: Unfortunately it is $60. #battlefieldbadcompany2
@denki: It's Ormagoden, whose likeness garnishes Eddie Riggs's belt buckle (and set design) in Brutal Legend. #halloween
@Demitel: Drink!