As a developer, everything about this worries me. It sounds eerily similar to mobile development’s race to the bottom and we all know how that ended: A glutted market full of often low-quality experiences churned out by imitator studios. I’m fine with offering low cost enjoyable gaming experiences, but I worry about…

Not true. There exist tricks that can minimize multiplying two arbitrary three-digit numbers down to 10 digits. I’m a big fan of math optimizations.

To be fair, you don’t ask that games are clearly labelled as steam exclusive which, for many, is the default.

Yeah, but the worst firestorm to throw at a newly-minted PhD is a 200 person gen-ed, even with teaching assistants. My first time I failed so badly at it that I wondered if I shouldn’t give all the students “As.”

I don’t know about the OP, but If I have a student in my class do something as disrespectful to the educational process and their fellow students as vape in a closed space with unconsenting parties and then refuse to leave until campus police is involved you’re damned right I’m going to feel some glee. Someone wasn’t…

I’m ambivalent about this. We both know that a variety of professors are not only inadequate instructors, but (to be blunt) may actively harm the motivation of students to pursue their subject through either their attitude or their inability to impart passion. In a perfect world, every tenured professor and PhD would…

I dunno, my RMP has always been nice, but then again I’m upfront that my workload is intense and I’m lucky enough to teach classes that are not gen. req. so the people stepping in my classes know that what I’m teaching applies to them.

So is quality. That doesn’t stop me from saying something is bad.

And that advice might be less problematic in less densely populated countries... but the estimate for a 9mm fired from an average sized pistol at a 45 degree angle is ~1.4 miles and Memphis has a population per capita of 270 people per square mile. It is not absurd to tell people not to fire warning shots considering…

Nope. I’m a gay PoC male who came from poverty, transient housing, and an abusive childhood and “it’s just an animal” isn’t even vaguely how I feel. Look, people are shitty and life isn’t fair and nobody should have to suffer the way that parts of my life have made me. Empathy is not a finite resource. Spending it on…

I’m still waiting for what you think I’m wrong about. The text you bolded is clearly correct: If Walmart did not sell guns there would be fewer guns available. It’s not exactly hard math : Every gun Walmart owns that it does not sell is one less available to the public. Are you actually disagreeing with that?

Your own link actually addresses this issue and very clearly communicates that you’re wrong:

Heh sure. Muddled as it may be, my example is centered around the idea that the idea that there are alternate sources for a potential opportunity for social damage does not eliminate the value of reducing the number of sources. Stopping some killers reduces the number of deaths. Stopping some purchasers of firearms…

No, the premise of my first argument is based on the idea that it’s a universal truth that shooting sprees necessitate the availability of guns, followed by the reasonably supported conclusion that countries with far more social upheaval and instability, and more permeable borders manage to avoid the number of mass…

Both of your points are dead wrong.

That’s a ridiculous reduction. Context matters.

Erm no... they’d be rejecting her for falsification of documents and while I’m sure there’s some desperate lawyer out there who would be willing to try to convince them otherwise, the moment they submitted falsified, certified documents to a federal program everything else became incidental. After all, they get to…

If you’re an 18 year old who was kicked out of home for your sexuality, but haven’t been able to fully emancipate yourself from your well-off parents? Sorry kiddo, no meaningful financial aid for you until you turn 24.

Nope. Ignoring the stupidity of shit people when putting them in power is how we got Trump. We’ve been celebrating shit people for about as long as someone’s had the time to look up from their fields, see a guy slip on a banana peel and chuckle. Let’s not overgeneralize.

Is this really, honestly, that hard to understand?