To be fair, I kinda agree. Programming games for high-end PCs is no walk in the park these days. To take advantage of all that power, you need ridiculous budgets and hundreds of employees. You can't force a human being to write lines of code faster than they can think. There's an upper bound on the graphical quality…

"Either they're all Bizzaro people who wear shoes on their heads or I'm underestimating the appeal of having a second job you have to pay for." - Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, in his EVE Online review.

Trying to crush the competition through litigation is a form of competition. If they can survive such tactics, they are a worthy adversary.

I've always been a bit of a PC guy myself, so I don't feel I have much of a right to weigh on matters with this sort of gravity. However, virtually every Apple product that I've handled was of impeccable quality and workmanship, especially in recent years. Without Steve's leadership, I fear we may be seeing a downturn…

"this is why it's a hipster fad: because anyone that doesn't like it isn't smart or good enough for it."

The animation for the defib pads is missing; when used, they force your character's upper body into a static bind pose.

Bravely Default, eh? That sounds like a game about the housing crisis.

Ad hominem tu quoque. Just because I buy electronics and video games, that doesn't mean I have to like it.

Yeah. Get a job. So they can tax my income and use it to buy 30mm ammo so they can keep dismembering little Iraqi kids with Apache chainguns. So I can willingly subsidize the assholes that have been selling us all out to oil barons, big pharma, agribusiness and huge multinational corporations with ties to Chinese…

Sure. There are some mods in use with this save, though:

"And the lawyer didn't mysteriously vanish after betraying your family?"

I think that with increased CPU power, storage media size and memory budgets resulting from the continued observance of Moore's Law, we may see a resurgence in interest for voxel-based raycasting game engines and rendering schemes. After all, real life is built up out of small, three-dimensional particles, so why not…

Huh. It didn't post the image. Let's try that again, shall we?

[Did I say "comically hideous?" What I meant to say was "unspeakably ghastly."]

Fad, my foot. Minecraft is an infinite set of Lego bricks for a finite fee. Why would liking it make us freaks? Is it because the game requires a modicum of intelligence, creativity and/or obsessive-compulsive tendencies in order to realize the fullest enjoyment from it?

Notch is right. This entire mess is just attorneys being attorneys. A bastard with a law degree will do anything short of fellatio to earn some cold, hard cash (and even then, I'm not so sure that they wouldn't go that far). Believe me, I have firsthand experience in these things. Remember that whole thing with Sony…

Oh? Then when you mentioned his "lack of respect to others in the industry", what were you talking about in particular?

Notch seems to have picked up a considerable hatedom after he called out Unlimited Detail for the fraud that it is. You don't need an ego to see that Euclideon's selling everyone a bill of goods.

They call him Master Grief.

I believe it's worth it to spend a little extra to upgrade your PC and then buy the PC version, ignoring the console versions completely. The inability of the latter to play user-created mods completely neuters them.