70 million units is pretty significant.

Uh oh, boner alert.

The details of Tolkien's works were plenty dark, but when you take a step back and just look at the premises, there's a noticeable element of whimsy, which I think is what they're joking about. It's not that whimsical fantasy is bad, just that it creates a stark juxtaposition if inserted into a world with more…

Problem solved.

True patriotism isn't mindless devotion to national norms, it's careful consideration of the possible paths we as a people can take.

Ok, but here's my counter:

If there are multiple instances of yourself you can do the work faster. I mean, it would lead to paradoxes, but the title seems to acknowledge that.

That seems about right, considering BD costs in Japan. And game costs, really.

Why is it degrading to negotiate every business transaction? Last time I checked, international and corporate trade wasn't considered to be business of neanderthals. And while I agree that the PC market is more open, I was discussing the whole industry. I think free market economics can be applied to everything…

Well, the industry is currently using a rather impersonal, top-down, corporate pricing structure. That's the norm in the entire electronics world, really, of course. The company sets the price and the customer really cannot do anything about it. In a free-market transaction, you'd be able to haggle, so charisma,…

This is a good idea, adding a free market element to the gaming industry.

On the plus-side, angry Kansai-ben is pretty moe. Honma ni.

Regardless of which is worse, I don't think a problem that affected 1/3 of all 360's at one point is "practically impossible to get".

Hey, that's just realism.

The customer is always in a position to criticize. Sure getting half (exaggeration) of a huge game is better than getting half of a tiny game, but it's still half, and it doesn't have to be. The disc limit seems pretty arbitrary.

I don't see why that gets them off the hook. They're still the ones that are going to sell us content that should have been in the game at a premium.

We took out bin Laden in his private residence in a non-enemy nation in the cover of night. That's definitely an assassination. Enemies of the state are supposed to be captured, tried, and executed. Instead, they started a firefight with all of like 10 guards to make an excuse to kill him then and there. There…

Actually, dumping a high profile criminal's body in the sea immediately after assassinating him is pretty shady. Of course, the assassination was illegal in the first place, so it's possible they just wanted to dispose of all the physical evidence.

They didn't, though. They only used a single-layer BD. They could have included the whole game, but they didn't because it would require more DVDs for the 360 port. This is no different than other cash-in DLC scenarios, in my opinion. The fact that the rest of the game is still big doesn't really make a…