I don’t want to be one of ‘those’ guys ...

Yeah. I kinda get those who are invested in stuff like ships and worldbuilding (up to a point) - those are issues of characters and narrative elements after all - but my personal bugbear are those fans who get invested in technological or chronological minutae. I mean I get that my suspension of disbelief threshold is…

I would’ve thought it would either have been the “Curse you Kinja!!!” or the “Burn in hell infinite scrolling articles!!!”, but I guess you’d have to measure by subject matter for those.

Right now I’m just trying to figure out the best way to learn conversational Mandarin - Duolingo insists on including pinyin/ Chinese characters.

This. Does the the post not contribute anything? Is it an attempt to derail/ concern troll/ re-litigate everything from first principles?

Sure, if by “future of blogging” you mean “the structure of blogging as has been done for over a decade now” (see Instapundit (heh), Andrew Sullivan, the entirety of blogging as a structure)

THIS.

Reputational risk is a thing that exists, and that exists separately from legal/ regulatory risk. If you fail to adequately protect your reputation, you are a terrible businessperson and (depending on your structure), breaching your duty of care to your shareholders.

“better than the other South Australian masterpiece the “Pie Floater” a meat pie floating in pea soup”

In Adelaide, one of the nicknames for the HSP is AB - afterbirth or abortion

I see that someone else’s “needs” has magically transformed to “wants” in your mind. Interesting.

Here:

Actually, Malaysia has significant Christian and Buddhist minorities, and there were calls from local religious / political leaders of those denomination to ban the game as well:

Reason 11275354 Why We Cannot Have Nice Things

If you don’t want to see anything else, then set your bookmarks and feeds to Kotaku Core.

Oh FFS, if you don’t want anything but videogame news, set your bookmarks and feeds to Kotaku Core -

Every law and order politician is only interested in law and order for those filthy Others.

What no mention of the stupidly long load times? Or the fact that the whole thing is region locked, so those of us out of certain markets are shit outta luck?

Eh. I think we, like PA, have pretty much given up and are just proceeding on Meh at the moment.

Man, I really hope that BJ has worked on the strength of his arguments: