The ideas where *so incredibly* basic, 100 course level, surface-skimming concepts that the fact The Gamers(tm) reacted the way they did still dumbfounds me when I think about it.

Article could have been clearer, but clicking through yields:

Half the price of a new controller (or 70% the price of a used one) doesn’t sound great, but Microsoft paying lip service to “Right to Repair” is a great precedent.

Nah. They’ll just put a gun to your head, and make you scan your eyeball.

Rocky Aoki is one of the few people who would have commissioned this car.

That was my first though as well. That she seems a little... narrow... For Minaj.

I just truly believe it’ll sell for much more someday

This is true about it being the most tested vaccine in history.

Carlson spent the last decade as Fox News’ most arguably most right-wing and racist host, a guy who so routinely trafficked in anti-Black content that the New York Times did an entire project on it.

The first amendment only covers actions by the government.

Much of the time it’s not that hard, mainly because trolls are stupid.

I believe the technical term is “Y’all Quaeda”

I once spent a week aboard an aircraft carrier on a “Tiger Cruise”. A friend of mine was also there with her cousin who was a pilot.

Well, Sony’s servers are for sure needed for authentication. But I’m not sure they are a carrier of the video stream on the local network. That would be silly.

Studios complained not because they were losing money (study after study has shown that, with a few exceptions, pirates pay for more media than non-pirates), but because they can’t control consumer behavior with piracy.

Just FYI - you should audit your wireless channels for noisy neighbors. I use a paid tool called InSSIDer which gives you a visualization of how many people are on certain channels so you can pick a less busy one.

Yes. This.

Back when I played CoD online (whatever years MW1/2 were new) it was just full of screaming, racist 12-year old boys.

If somehow we start to mitigate climate change, you know they’ll also be the first ones to propose cutting down those trees for lumber.  There’s money to be made!

Nailed it. “Manifest Destiny” is exactly what he was describing.