That version of events sounds highly unlikely. You think Blizzard had a Valentine’s event on track for early-mid February, but due to some irate Mei fans griping in the forums, they scrapped them, went back to the drawing board, and in the span of less than a month, designed and created an entirely different event,…

My money’s on: wasting away in some Homan Square-type black site

I can not see them having a chance of maintaining a majority in any forum by alienating 50% of the voting population.

Another thing: Gear Loadouts. I really thought they’d incorporate this simple thing that has already been done by 3rd party web apps. Let players save specific loadouts. You have a stylish, finely tuned Warlock with all the right void perks, but your fireteam would have a much easier time with the prestige strike if…

Another hurdle is you have to reconcile the terms and conditions for both online communities, as well as the feature disparities. XBL and PSN are similar, but there are some crucial differences. How would a PSN player find their Xbox friend and invite them to the fireteam? Can they voice chat with one another? It’s…

That would require actual servers. Destiny PvP is still mainly peer-to-peer.

Waiting for the game to go on sale? Do people who haven’t even purchased the game really count as part of the userbase?

I’m actually glad they stuck with lesser-known but talented actors who fit the characters instead of relying on Snakes-on-a-Plane-style gimmickry just to please a small segment of players.

No. Right now no exchange or conversion service can handle a cash out of $400 million worth of bitcoin all at once. For a balance that big, it would have to be done piecemeal over a period of many months (possibly a year or two), you’d have to trust that whatever conversion service you went with was legit and not…

If things deteriorate to the point where the USD is rendered worthless, what makes you think the power grids and internet will be in good enough shape to handle the bitcoin economy?

I’m pretty germ-obsessive to the point where after washing my hands in the restaurant bathroom and, if necessary, using a paper towel to open the bathroom door, I make sure not to touch a sauce bottle or a menu with the same hand I’m using to eat the appetizer. I get sick very very rarely, while most of my…

Yes, if you’re surrounded by assholes.

There is if you prefer flying in/out of JFK, or if you want to fly nonstop coast to coast without the hassle of a layover in MDW or Denver.

The angle of this photo makes it look like Tyrion Lannister is about to hunt down Ben Richards in the Game Zone

Are there really that many AAA games where the bad guys are a US-based religious cult/militia? I think it’s a refreshing break from the endless parade of aliens, demons, zombies, and German soldiers.

The difference is the urgency and the alarmism of the “Obama coming for our guns” rhetoric is nowhere to be found here. Is there some kind of deeper agenda at work in this article? Do people seriously think the author is trying to stoke racial animosity, screeching like a PC harpy about how Lucio’s design makes…

Verbatim quotes from the article:

There may be upsides to a more frequent, smartphone-style system of upgrades, but the “generation” thing is going to re-assert itself and when it does it’s gonna be a much bigger shitshow than if MS and Sony had just stuck with the same processing specs for the entire 8th gen. At some point, developers will either…

While that’s good advice, it will be followed by precisely nobody in that massive segment of U.S. voters who believe that the world is ~6,000 years old and Obama is a secret Muslim planning to institute Sharia law.

I wouldn’t mind if horses sped up at the cost of damage resistance. Like the ability to go full tilt Kentucky Derby at an objective and anyone who’s good enough to pot shot you gets a bonus based on the horse’s speed. Also have a limited number of horses so when they die they stay where they fall and can be used as…