But how does that work, then? In Mr. Wednesday’s speech he explicitly says that the old gods were “brought” over to America. Is he the only Odin, or are there thousands of other Odins running around (like the Jesuses) in random villages across Scandinavia? If it’s the latter, why don’t the old gods just recruit all…

First announced on Rockstar’s Newswire blog, this program will reward players with $500k in GTA Online for activating the extra security on their Social Club accounts.

Right? These platforms literally have that feature built-in, it’s called sharing/retweeting.

Some of his best friends are Apples. They’re fine people. The best people.

We never seem to learn, do we?

Tulip Mania was largely Calvinist propaganda, it never actually existed in the way that people like to insist.

This came up a bunch on one of the other password articles a while back, and while I totally get the skepticism, by all accounts this is a legitimate website run by someone who is very well known in the cybersecurity world and regularly speaks at conferences. There’s an entire section dedicated to explaining how your…

I literally cannot think of a way they could’ve possibly gotten potassium nitrate except from urine, so yeah, that seems likely.

From what I’ve heard of Giant Bomb’s coverage, they pretty much completely retconned that aspect of the plot. Which is a shame, because it was a genuinely interesting idea.

prohibiting their sale outside of age-restricted stores or closed off areas.

Reminder that the panic over Momo is entirely artificial and was very likely specifically targeted at impressionable, out-of-the-loop soccer moms who don’t understand the concept of internet creepypasta in an attempt to distract the voting public from news of the Cohen testimony

I mean I’d hardly call upholding the principle of free speech “bullying,” but yeah, you’re right - the west is absolutely complicit in enabling/supporting this authoritarian shit. We love cheap plastic crap and slave labor, as long as it’s not happening in our own backyard.

Maybe. Could just be me reading between the lines a bit too much, but to me that sounds like a more diplomatic way of saying “Valve told us to patch the content out or fuck off, and we don’t want to bite the hand that feeds so we have to take it down while we comb through the rest of our assets to appease them.”

Of course they took it down, Valve absolutely refuses to rock the boat with respect to their business relationships in China. See: the whole mess with Dota 2's Chongqing Major and Valve agreeing to ban one of the players on request from the local government (then releasing a blog post saying they had no idea about any…

Little of column A, little of column B. There’s a vocal minority who make the DRM aspect of things their priority, but I think — as we’ve seen with the backlash against uPlay/Origin/Epic Store — the ire around digital storefronts is more just that people don’t want to mess around with a bunch of separate accounts.

Climate change: pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er.

Don’t forget the innocuously-labelled “Homework” folder that is somehow almost 50 gigs.

That’s always been part of the charm, though. ATHF had a budget of like $3 and some coupons, and it still managed to be one of the funniest and most clever cartoons of that era.

Maybe on consoles, but no, that’s absolutely not normal for literally any even semi-serious shooter.

Oh totally agreed. I haven’t really played since the start of S2 since other games have taken priority, but every now and then I’ll check back on the state of the game and aside from some issues with the balance/economy it seems like most hardcore players are pretty pleased with things.