I can only imagine what it’d be like to create something with love and craftsmanship and no real expectations for it being a hit...and then 24 million dollars (less Valve’s take) ends up in your pocket.

Like Netflix.

Jeez Milo, you’re such a wet, infected, blanket.

No, I don’t, because this is a weird thing that people trot out about Gen 1 Pokemon despite absolutely not being true.

Magnemite? Porygon? Jynx? Koffing? Muk? Voltorb? Plenty of inanimate objects in Gen 1 of Pokemon. It’s only natural that with further generations there’s more Pokemon based on other objects and…

Shutting down a tool that everyone knows is used to steal their content = “lawyers are out of control.” Uh, no.

I’m just going to go out on a limb here and say, “If you create a tool that can easily be used to jimmy open a lock, don’t be surprised when folks use it to jimmy open a lock.”

...or, more appropriately, “When significant numbers of folks are using your tool to jimmy open significant numbers of locks—and are discussing…

OK, a more accurate comparison is that those in the trenches were actually killing real people and risking death, rather than the consequence free video game life.

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who likes Oatmeal Raisin cookies.

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s a bad argument. There’s still no reason not to preorder games if you’re a grown adult capable of making an educated decision.

Convenience + adorableness + nostalgia factor. It’s that easy.

I get your point, but either way, how does a hacker looks like? how does a hacker that goes into actual battle looks like?

Yeah please don’t miss the point here. It’s not about feeling sorry that someone died and didn’t get to see this. It’s that they aren’t around for their loved ones, whose fondest memories of those who are gone may involve time spent supporting this thought to be hopeless team, to share it with them.

Are you really begrudging people the emotions they feel because fandom is often passed down generationally?

That you feel the need to come on here and pat yourself on the back on a Cubs post is the most Sox fan inferiority complex thing ever. Cheers.

Hey bud, from all of us here at the Deadspin comment section, go fuck yourself.

Too much of this already sounds iffy. A white girl playing a Japanese girl who has a Japanese mom in the movie? How does that work? Skipping over giving her a name in a transparent attempt at deflection?

She’s a robot. Her entire body is fake, except the brain, and it’s government property. There are multiple people with the same body referred to as the Major in government facilities. Motoko Kusanagi is an alias.

A race of supermodels that nobody wants to play games with.

Let’s make sure people can see and understand what half-assed false equivalence looks like. :)

You probably have to be a classless hillbilly to take something like wearing a belt with jeans and make it into some sort of masculine issue.