I think the FFXIV comparison also ignores the lengths Square went to support and improve the original game.

Just once I want to see a headline about a company in trouble saying “AM in trouble, but panic is rampant and stakeholders are stripping the rotting husk of the company for parts.”

I’m genuinely curious: why? There’s no good way to say this, but G/O Media is being gutted, first slowly and now quite swiftly, and I sincerely doubt you’ll have any say in stopping that from happening. These sites are hemorrhaging talent, and it’s only a matter of time before they’re a shoddy content-mill shadow of…

I’m not sure the solution here is to make cars less “internally” safe, because I’m not necessarily convinced that making them less so would actually reduce instances like this.

I humbly submit to the court that Rosa Parks is the Rosa Parks of the modern era.

The “He did it to give people hope” thing was what got me.  Nothing says "we'll get through this" like not getting through this in the most poetic possible way.

Fuck. Well, I can’t say I didn’t see the writing on the wall with this one. I’m curious to see where you land, sounds like you’ll be focusing on that gaming industry beat you do so brilliantly.

Yeah, this is how Liberty eats it. Not years of voter suppression. Not the highest prison population in the world. Not the relentless glorification of our military, or the constant expansion of executive power. And definitely not a president that openly worships authoritarians and has stated that his authority is…

I have a number of problems with this article:

Jason Torchinsky, you are a raging psychopath.

Sometimes you do have to pick between two evils, but whoever told you the US will never be a progressive country has their head up their ass. It’s defeatist and it’s not true. The last 50 years have seen Republicans and Democrats alike roll back the progressive reforms that built a robust 20th century economy in the…

Weirdly I think you're being too charitable.  I just think he's a douchebag.

South Korea is a democracy, so it’s hardly like they declared martial law. They just reacted faster and more effectively because they have a more functional national government and healthcare system.

It was a reference to the best fighting game released in 2016: Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel.

I don’t know from DBFZ, but it has been widely acknowledged on this site (and everywhere, really) that Nintendo’s online strategy is determined by a man that Nintendo cruelly imprisoned in 1997 and only released after a decade of solitude. It is an ecosystem crafted by a man tortured into madness who has never heard…

The feature was still present at the time of the customer's purchase.  The feature was removed when he subsequently updated the vehicle's software.

And yet I still feel bad having spent $60 on it at launch.  Roster size isn't an insignificant consideration, but 11 isn't so low of a number that I'm troubled by it if the rest of the package is there.

In what conceivable fashion was this not an assassination? A state of war does not exist between Iran and the USA, and Soleimani was a general in the Iranian military. The sole fig leaf of legality, that we unilaterally declared the IRGC a terrorist organization, is pure nonsense.

I don’t think this cultural bias argument holds water. The first implication is that countries with large, highly utilized public transport systems don’t like freedom. I think Swedes, Germans, the Japanese, etc. all like having the freedom to go to locations at times of their choosing.

I watched the original three movies less than 72 hours ago, and I can guarantee that fans of those movies are not in a position to judge the quality of any movie's writing.