I’ve long the massive distances involved in in-stellar travel will require the scope and scale of our space vehicles to grow massive out of necessity. The premise of the book mentioned in Seveneves reminds me a bit of that.

personally i prefer using Kodi (XBMC) with one of the torrent add-ons for this. i hate watching movies in my web browser. it’s always annoying browse other webpages while watching something if i need to.

that’s a bit of an oversimplification. i do largely agree with you. i think art by necessity needs the freedom to shock and disgust us. it is true there are nutjobs who are overly sensitive and complain about ridiculous things. but you’re forgetting the reason these nutjobs get heard is because many works of art have…

actually the original Wolfenstein was Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple II as strange as that is.

so basically more Doom 2/Quake 2 and less Doom 1/3/Quake 1?

yeah most the differences are subtle. even the intentional changes to games are usually so small you won’t notice and were often for good reasons. they did stuff like removing the flashing screens from games for concerns about epilepsy , changing the passwords for some of the games that used those to save progress,…

I’m fairly certain most states it’s 18 (I think it’s like 48 states). There’s usually a little wiggle room for special cases. In the state of New York, I’m certain you’re treated as an adult in your legal responsibility is the age of 16.

Actually quite a few of the games on the Wii were altered from their original release versions. Some games had glitches, and played fairly well, but when compared side by side you could spot the differences. I know F-Zero X was the one I noticed right off the bat. But it was nothing major. That’s the nature of…

I’m curious why you’d want a machine that can play TG-16 games when it at best will only run them as well as the best emulator. I know the systems can be relatively pricey, but so are it’s games. If you’re going to get the games, you might as well get the system. With something like this system, you’re not going to…

well I think the real use for stuff like this is pretty niche. it’s really only worthwhile if you have a collection of older games, but don’t have a collection of older game systems; or maybe you prefer not having all the mess and organization it takes to hook up several old games systems.... BUT and there’s the big…

The big question is does this use any stolen code like the Retron5 did?

While I think your quoted text applies to the other post, I feel it’s important to point out that quoted text alone only shows an incomplete picture of x-rays. X-rays themselves are hazardous (largely because of the amount of energy associated with them. Use of x-rays is always best at a safe minimum with proper…

I agree. I think it even goes further in that people unfairly generalize all mobile games as Skinner Boxes riddled with overpriced inapp purchases, while also generalizing other gaming platforms as not having these problems.

oh okay. I guess the devil’s in the details. I guess I just didn’t have enough information. But to be fair Valve’s corporate structure (as you yourself pointed out) is pretty unique, so it can be easy to miss these nuances.

uhhhh yeah i know that one and it’s not necessarily true. Team Fortress started out a mod that Valve bought the rights too and hired the people working on so of course they worked on making it’s sequel. and Portal was a spiritual successor to the student game Narbacular Drop whose team Valve also hired to make a…

Yeah, there is some merit to this, and I may have overstated the effect it will have. Valve is pretty entrenched in the PC gaming market and have a quasi-monopoly on the digital market there. So even if gamers don’t like it they are likely to still use the service. I still think it’s bad business to run their company…

yes I do. my point was your definition of the word is far from the only one. the dictionary backs me up. it’s clear proof you’re wrong. it’s no big deal. it’s a common misconception. i even heard Movie Bob give a long rant about the same thing not too long ago. he was wrong too. everyone makes mistakes.

Funny. Free speech isn’t mentioned anywhere here:

but the person you were responding to did not mention free speech so you’re changing the topic.

that sounds like a problem with Valve though. and if they refuse to adapt it’s going to come back to bite them hard.