That’s the absolute truth. Regulations that protect my wealth? GOOD. Regulations that prevent me from destroying the planet and other people to make more money? BAD.

I don’t believe in God, but the thing that convinces me most that the majority of conservatives don’t actually believe in God either despite their many pandering protestations otherwise is... well... their actions in life.

If only we could just chuck them all in so they can live out their Mad Max cosplay fantasy and quit mucking it up for the rest of us.

To co-opt a Bette Davis quote: “Mother always said to speak good of the dead. David Koch is dead. Good.”

I think it’s less of a contradiction than a roundabout way of saying that he’s old and experienced enough to not be excited by the same thing with a new coat of paint thats passing for AAA titles these days (your Spider-Mans, God of Wars, and RDR2 notwithstanding...maybe).

Indeed. Also, I forgot to add that the price of top-end games not changing is entirely unrelated to the insidious expansion of micro-transaction models. If we raised the price of games tomorrow, these added pricing models would not disappear. We’d simply be paying more than usual in addition to being force-fed…

Yeah, Joshua’s article seemed to be leaving out some key issues. Most glaringly was the outsized effect of the modern corporate structure and executive compensation.

If any game deserved to be priced at $80, it was The Witcher 3, and yet they still made a shit ton of money at the $60 price point. The $59.99 price tag is not the problem. The insane salaries of these CEOs and the demands of stockholders is. Bobby Kotick is the devil of the games industry, but he’s hardly alone in…

I totally agree with this article. When Sony first announced the Vita and it’s pricing I laughed at the whole thing. I found it ridiculous to pay that price for a handheld especially one that used a mobile network which would cost even MORE money (the mobile network was from AT&T). Then a few years ago after…

Well. Said. I’ll never get why Sony didn’t push it harder here in the West after the PSP took a respectable chunk of the mobile market. I may actually fire mine up with Megaman Legends coming out tomorrow.

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You should read up on the story. These students were the victims of deliberate fraud on the part of Corinthian Colleges. They were tricked into taking on shady loans, by colleges that lied about their job placement rates. Then the colleges went bankrupt. It’s a pretty clear-cut case of fraud, which is why the…

What is a better burrito joint? Please don’t attempt to argue Moe’s or Qdoba.

You’re right THIS one is the best ever.

This is precisely why you don't pre-order stuff. If a game is really worth fifty bucks you'll still want to buy it two weeks after it's released and all the play-throughs are online. Pre-order it and developers will still think they can ship an subpar product so long as it makes all its money before it even gets in…

So because he has an opinion differing from yours, that's an embarrassment? He pretty much backed up every reason why he dislikes the game. Perhaps you can provide reasons why you like it instead?

I find the total lack of any apparent signs of sea life in this video disturbing. Where are the fish?

Wow, what a waste of someones precious time and effort. It really is as simple as 'if you don't like it, don't watch it'. Hell, if you'd already decided that Jackson was only stretching the films out to purely make money (something that doesn't ring true with anything we know about the man or anyone else over at Weta)…

Oh, things "aging" is really not the problem - fads come and go and come again, and eventually everyone wants something retro or remade or remixed.