I actually think this is really insightful, even though it comes off as snark - mostly because it's an unusual opinion.

Do the actual, y'know, VIKING SAGAS count as prior art and evidence against their copyright claim?

They're not even half-assing it anymore. They're quarter-assing it.

I bought that projector on Black Friday, new, for a little cheaper than that (Granted, it was Black Friday). I have had a few projectors, not a ton, but this is far and away the best. Don't get thrown by the 3D label - we have no intentions of ever using it in 3D, and it looks really stunning. The only flaw, really,…

Ah, haven't seen that one. And totally didn't realize he is the bus driver. NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE!

Nope, it got renewed for a 26th season in October.

Okay, I have seen some but not most Miyazaki movies. I get the background reference. What I don't get is the bus with legs and a face. What's THAT from?

Wow, I actually didn't even realize that was Drew Carey.

Agree with you. I'm just 5 years out of college and I'm still working on building the common sense thing a bit. It takes time. I'm not spending $500 a month on food, but it's still much higher than it should be for one person.

Oh, pretty much everybody thinks that. They may even have joked about it in RPG, I forget. But that part was never canon. The plumbers thing was, but they handwaved it away for some reason.

Jay-Z has elephant-hide sneakers? For serious?

According to the actual Nintendo press and usage guidelines, neither Mario nor Luigi have last names. But this is much less fun, of course. According to those guidelines, they are also not plumbers and not from Brooklyn. These aren't merely left out: it's specifically mentioned that none of these things can be said in…

The other thread were a cop claimed that 97% of cops were good cops made me really angry. I think it's a lot closer to the opposite, and if you have the motivation to go into that field in the first place, there's something deeply wrong with you. I don't think you can be a good person and also a cop.

I just don't know how you can even become a judge without believing in at least a pretense of logic and reason.

I'm a little late to this conversation, but the whole 'why not build your own computer' thing gets thrown around a lot. And I think that's sort of missing the point. From what everyone says, maybe that's actually a pretty easy thing. But to the layperson, by which I mean anyone from a serious gamer who doesn't happen…

The trouble is, unless there is a way to automatically create most of the art resources that actually use that technology, those level of graphics - even when possible - will be very, very resource intensive. Meaning AAA, meaning companies won't be able to innovate very often because of the risk involved. Innovations…

Eh, I'm a grammar Nazi about some things, but that one feels a bit outdated with me. That and the split infinitive. Not sensible rules for our modern era (source: no source). But if someone says less instead of fewer, oy, I'll pounce.

I don't understand - what issue do you have with that phrasing? Is it because the sentence ends with a preposition?

Wow. That's awful. Was it a dysfunctional workplace otherwise?

This is true. But there are other purposes for saving, too, besides for retirement. You shouldn't pull a house down payment from a Roth. Sometimes the way your money works for you is by being accessible whenever you need it.