I recently watched a video of a 21 year old reacting to Back to the Future, and he could barely tell the difference between the 80s and the 50s visually.

Again: you’re trying to assign his accusation to just “a feeling”. It wasn’t. You’re mischaracterizing the situation, and this is why your opinion on the matter, and indeed those of all the other members of the snarky commentariat, is worth nothing.

Which is on some level understandable. The fact that the number can’t ever have been a prepaid one in the past, or a VoIP one like Skype or Vonage, is not.

This is exactly the point I was making. You dismissively call it just a “feeling”, because you presumably have no experience in high-level chess, but it’s easy to see there’s more to it than that. When you play at that level as often and as seriously as Carlsen and others do, you will inevitably be extremely sensitive…

Battle.net now requires it to be registered on your account for authorization purposes, or else you can’t play OW2.

I couldn’t care less about my own personal emotional reaction to the way he delivered the information. That’s irrelevant. I care about the information he delivered.

Yeah, no. No amount of spin is going to make it reasonable to ask a player to change their phone number of 15+ years to play a video game.

That doesn’t change anything about what I said. If you dig deep enough you can unearth potential ulterior motives for almost anything anybody does. And yeah, it’s information to pay attention to. But it’s not an instant discredit of Carlsen’s arguments.

Yeah, so I know I’m late to this, but apparently because I ported my cell number from Vonage 15 years ago, I can never play OW2? And they can’t override this.

This is so emblematic of the kind of company Blizzard is. I’m sure cases like mine are relatively fringe cases, and were written off by them as acceptable…

Carlsen’s reasoning always made perfect sense to me.

I don’t play chess at anything approaching a high level, but I can well imagine what it would be like to be as immersed in the game as he is, operating on another plane like he does. After playing as many matches as guys like him have, you’d get a feel for the…

I find that LOTR generally has a higher lore-nerd threshold than other properties. A side effect, I suppose, of a property in which maps and appendices are distributed in every book.

Bronwyn referred to “Orodruin” by name as a location in the Southlands, so they weren’t exactly leaving it exclusively to foreshadowing.

Ok, but who will he be palling around with? Dreamfinder (yay), or Professor Eric Idle, or somebody else?

Consider: Beyond’s story was resolved more or less the same way the story in Mars Attacks was.

Said new leadership would have to financially justify not only releasing the film, but also paying back the tax break with no guarantee of the film ever making a return on it. Now that the tax break has been received, any payback of it would go on a future year’s, and a future CEO’s, books. They’d have to be really…

None of which is likely, or going, to happen.

Yeah, Sam, as usual, doesn’t get it. They used the film for a tax writeoff. If they released it now, they’d have committed tax fraud.

Ah yes, the tired, low hanging fruit argument of “They were just lazy”. Ironically the laziest reasoning you could employ.

They have a talented full time composer for a series that costs tens of millions to make and employs hundreds of dedicated creatives, who states that he composed tons and tons of pieces for the…

Oh come on, this is temporary. People will come around on it closer to release. I’m glad the game has its own title; it doesn’t need to directly reference BotW.

70 year olds are not Gen-Xers. That age puts him solidly in the center of the baby boom.