That's not necessarily a universal style. There are perfectly common times when you may want to distance your personal opinion from statements of fact, and "My feeling is..." or "I think..." is a good way to distinguish the two.

It goes without saying that...

That's not necessarily true. Anyone who might be seen as speaking from a position of power, or anyone who might be seen as speaking for a group of people, has perfectly good cause to be clear that they are speaking as a person and not as a position.

"Literally" is just the hyperbole du jour. Complaining about its "incorrect" use is just loudly advertising that you are thrown by anyone making a statement that is not absolute truth.

The first five games I played after buying a new PC were, in rough order:

In the show's defense, the sword explicitly has magical powers over wind. Being able to deflect arrows with a sword makes sense if you can magically deflect the arrows into the blade.

Please tell me this is just alpha footage with placeholder textures and with effects not yet programmed in...

It's this product at ThinkGeek.

It's this product at ThinkGeek.

Nope. Corn is heavily subsidized in the US, thus making corn products absurdly cheap. On the plus side, food is way more expensive in Europe than it is in the states in my personal experience. On the down side, HFCS is way cheaper than sugar.

I'm pretty sure they don't use the exact same flavoring, since they're using a sweetener that is less sweet.

Because their customers are idiots.

Really, Nevada took 49th?

You know, I'd like to see this compared to data on median income. And maybe educational ranking. Or maybe racial/ethnic demographics. And government deficits. Leading political parties. Hell there are a lot of things I'd like to compare here that I bet have a positive or an inverse correlation, and others that may be…

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Agreed. Piracy is a boogeyman the same way mixtapes and recorded TV (back when VCRs existed - they were magnetic tapes that you could store a whole hour of video on...in 480p at best) were going to kill the music/television industry. They weren't true then and it isn't true now.

Which is still ridiculous. I resent that there is no opt-out. I am not a child who needs her hand held because she doesn't know not to give her password to other people.

Their blocker seems to work inconsistently. puu.sh occasionally works and occasionally does not, it seems to vary.

It's not theft. Theft, by its definition, involves depriving the owner of the object stolen; piracy does not do this. Even the Supreme Court has ruled that possession of copyrighted materials is not possession of stolen property, that is to say, that copies cannot be considered stolen, as no physical deprivation of…

So what you're saying is, when the Supreme Court, you know, the literal highest court in the country, rules that copies of copyrighted works cannot be considered stolen property because no theft, conversion, or fraud has occurred, that what they meant to say was the exact opposite of this, that a theft has occurred?…

So not only are you smarter than the Supreme Court, but they're "simply too stupid to speak with"? Good thing they, and not you, are actually entitled to speak on such matters officially. Copyright infringement is not theft. It's copyright infringement. That is the name of the offense. Calling it a different offense…