I've never really bought that line of philosophical reasoning. It strikes me as a baseless attempt to import "original sin" into nominally non-theist morality. If I think that doing the right thing is the best thing to do, I don't think that makes me less moral.

Yeah, it starts great, and even the macro-evolution bit is fun. The tribal bit is laughably badly done. The planet stage is mid-range Armor Games. The space stage is shovelware garbage.

You want to believe so badly that it's good. And then you want to believe so badly that it's fixable. And then you play your tenth hour.

People do get rewarded for being good, though. The short-term can be more painful or difficult, but the long-term is usually better. Reputation, social (and monetary) credit and others feeling indebted to you are all enormously valuable.

Only '90s kids will trivialize death like this.

I know everyone's shit is all emotional right now, but President Camacho has a plan. And it's going to fix everything.

Americans have always been more concerned about counting the votes than voting itself. You'll feel like a citizen when there's an unexplained server outage and your vote is discarded.

I'm judging anyone who has the opportunity to vote for Lincoln and doesn't so hard right now.

The space part of the game is like the orchestra playing you off in the Oscars. There's nothing left to do but get the fuck out.

None of the Latin numbered months make any sense anymore. September, October, November and December all needed to be incremented by 2 after the insertion of Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus's months.

"I'm FROM there" is more of an explanation than an aggravating factor in this case.

That's true, but it assumes something about games that isn't true. Specifically, that they are a narrative device similar to the traditional novel. The fact that the overwhelming majority of prior art has been linear suggests that we respond strongly to linear stories, but there's reason to think that interactive…

Spore is exactly what I thought, too. I'm not sure that it could ever really be done well, but it was engaging enough to make me think that it probably could be. Spore's main failing was in being ludicrously unfinished, and abandoning its core concept after level 2 (maybe, maybe level 3, but your critter is pretty…

eventually you'll beat the main game.

Counterpoint: effective swordfighting is unglamorous and goofy looking. See, e.g., HEMA demonstrations, most real fencing.

Either he was back in Dorne, as suggested by the letter that Doran read right before being stabbed, or he was in Kings Landing and the timing and execution of the assassination make no sense because two sand snakes would have had to get aboard a ship right after Jaime left and then sneak aboard another ship in the…

Excellent point—Littlefinger plays as if he has nothing to lose, because in a lot of ways he really started with nothing. Littlefinger's whole inheritance is one of the worst of any noble family in Westeros. He's got the tiniest spit of windblown, rainy, barren, salty rock on the coast of one of the richest and most…

I think that's both. There was a scene where Robb was writing something before the Red Wedding, and I can't think of anything else he would have been doing, though it makes less sense in the context of the show.

I thought the reveal was that Tyrion was actually Aery's son. The dragon has three heads and all that.

I'd say what it gains in alliteration it more than loses in hypeness, but I'd actually be pretty hyped to watch the Boltons get curb stomped by Jon Stark-Targaryen, King in the North and Risen Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.