Criticism follows a similar, but strangely counter-intuitive direction.

I agree. It boggles my mind sometimes when I am faced with folks who claim that "email is broken". I'm not very disciplined about email, but all my work gets done in a timely manner.

Steam Early Access is great, but I don't really enjoy paying full price for an in development game.

I get urgent emails and texts too. Most of my monitoring systems will email when they feel like shit hit the fan. I even have one location that has a cellular modem so that it can send me text messages if it gets stranded.

I like this idea, but i am often confronted with a "I gotta take this" call, as I'm on call 24/7. When shit breaks, I fix it. It is unfortunate that I have to interrupt our friendly drink because work calls, but we do what we must because we can.

I was a hardcore gamer back when the NES was king and I assure you, that movie is factually accurate in every facet.

Of course. As long as the NCAA gets their generous cut from the compensation for student athletes, they would gladly let EA create more NCAA football games.

So, you pirate out of convenience?

This is also something that all newer mainstream consoles facilitate. You can play many old games on your playstation or nintendo without resorting to piracy.

No, I'm not missing the point. Nintendo has a Virtual Console which you can play your older games on. PlayStation has a similar features as well.

I feel like a lot of the low end guys are hopping on the IPS bandwagon... Unless they have some documentation on color accuracy, I feel like these things are likely worse than their TN counterparts who offer the same resolution for less, and have less latency.

I think your rationalization is a thinly veiled excuse for piracy.

Why don't you just buy a DS to play DS games?

Wait, so the #1 tip for making your Ouya better is to pirate old console games?

I've been long overdue for a pillow. The last time I bought pillows, the deal was a sweet 70% off, and I can't deal with spending regular price for a good pillow or sleeping on a cheap pillow. I've just frowned at my pillow for weeks.

As a general rule, if a food says "No Trans Fat" on the front, I check the ingredient list to verify that nothing trans fat is included.

I think a little more context is necessary... It is possible that he originally referred to the journalist as "he" and was corrected, at which point he turned it into a bad joke.

I seem to recall a Mad Men episode with a similar premise...

I agree. It was in poor taste for MS to hire a comedian for the presentation. It was irresponsible of them to not instruct the comedian to be sensitive in his joke telling.

Isn't there an argument that the reason why MSE's score has been going down is due to the rules imposed on the benchmark? Because these benchmarks do not use up to date Windows installations, MSE performs poorly because it depends on Windows Update.