And after posting this I realize this post is from 2012.

Thunderball gets a bad rap. Its agonizingly long underwater sequences were amazing in 1967. And at least Thunderball didn’t have that goofy video game with the pew pew lasers.

I don’t mind product placement in Bond. The series has always been about selling a lifestyle. It enhances, not detracts, when he name-drops high-end liquors and wears only the fanciest suits and watches and drives only the most awesome cars.

I never do this, but a couple months ago I started coming down with the symptoms of the Kojima Flu on the 31st. It definitely helps if you don’t randomly disappear one day for being “sick” but appear perfectly healthy the day before and after.

Yep - below a certain age kids aren’t really trusted with things like stoves or even the microwave.

Well, after about the fourth grade or so that’s exactly what I would do if I got hungry, reheat leftovers a few hours later.

One thing I learned about lying is follow-through. One lie requires many lies to prop up. For instance, when I didn’t want to walk my dog (my Siberian husky, in summer, in the deep south! ...when I had Nintendo to play) I learned a few harsh lessons in thinking through how to make it look like I walked the dog. For…

I wasn’t required to finish my food as a kid, but I certainly would get no sympathy if I didn’t eat much and then felt hungry.

That doublespeak really pisses me off. Make it easier to find the update? You mean easier than the fucking autorunning process gwx.exe already telling me to update? A process that not only do you have to prevent from running at startup, but you also have to remove a scheduled task to restore it if you do that?

This. An admission that you cannot affect something is not the same as a surrender. I can’t make the drivers around me smarter, but I can choose - to at least some degree - how bad I feel about them.

And it’s been cheaper than $0.87 on Steam, too - down to $0.69.

And it’s been cheaper than $0.87 on Steam, too - down to $0.69.

A lot of games on Steam have “trading cards,” digital cards that don’t really do anything but you can craft badges and get stuff like custom emoticons with them. Or, for the rest of us, you can sell them for, depending on the game, anywhere from $0.05 to $0.20/card, usually with 3-5 cards per game. Doesn’t sound like…

Scam is a really strong word for what they’re doing. A lot of people don’t really mind how ABP brings about its list of “acceptable” ads as long as A: you can opt out of those too and B: those ads are genuinely unintrusive. That’s far from a scam.

What region are you in? Because it’s listed at $59.99 for me, in the US.

What region are you in? Because it’s listed at $59.99 for me, in the US.

That voucher code doesn’t actually seem to work, at least not with games on sale. Is there some list somewhere of exclusions?

That voucher code doesn’t actually seem to work, at least not with games on sale. Is there some list somewhere of…

Funny you should mention Target.

Ooh, quick to make it personal, aren’t we. While I have no particular reason to defend myself on such grounds, I’ll point out first and foremost that I’m single, which does give me little reason to use a website for arranging affairs. Secondly, maybe you think it’s okay to victimize others if you personally disagree…

I’m perfectly okay with people who cheat getting found out by their spouses. Having personal identity information held ransom and/or being leaked to the public, not so much. That just sucks.

Having private information leak in a major hack sucks even if the site you go to is mundane. It’s funny you should mention Target, in fact...

So, you think it’s okay to victimize people as long as you personally disapprove of what they do?