Wait. The Chinese government was burning books containing knowledge about Cthulhu. That means they consider Cthulhu to be a threat to national security.

$30 I paid for TWO episodes subtitled only on VHS. Then eventually $30 for 4 eps sub/dubbed on DVD. Sometimes years after they aired in Japan.
 $8/month for tonnes of anime delivered nigh-immediately is a fantastic deal. $8/month is deal even if you only watch one series per season.

They will absolutely track everything you do in order to try to sell you shit.  Did you take too long to complete a stage?  Have you considered a game guide?  And that’s the most innocuous version of this.

Yes, the implication is that it’s hardware independent*.

Yeah, but this is Google, who has become infamous for taking steps in a new direction, promising the moon and then quietly killing said project when they don’t win right away.

Anytime.. Anywhere... so long as you have a connection, that’s good enough, and you didn’t run out of data, and the service is also up and running, and it never closes down, or the content is never removed...

Yup.  Given the lifespan and commitment of and to Google Fiber, I’m not holding my breath for this to be any different.

I give it two years of being basically underused and forgotten before they shut it down unceremoniously, as is the Google way.

That’s my plan. My fiance gets government healthcare because she’s on disability, and every few months she has to jump through massive bureaucratic hoops as they continually try to take it away from her (which will kill her).  I work in the games industry where there’s little-to-no stability, so putting her on my own…

I’d bet children spending time in jail also causes an upswing in “violent traits”. 

I feel the adblock thing. I tried hard to support the site by whitelisting it but it just got to out of control. Ads that play sound, Ads that take my bandwidth. The SAME AD in 3 different places on the same page. Hell sometimes I cant even look at the article just ADS.

I don’t even use these sites on mobile they’re so bad. Even with a content blocker. Kinja? More like...well, kinja, I guess. It’s so bad it is now it’s own reference. And a verb.

I’m OK with this, the series is due a few mechanical makeovers.

EA: *Lays off 150 more people*

This image is giving me some cost-cutting ideas.

A relevant image, from last year’s SEC filings.

Hopefully this is a lesson for the smaller game makers. Don’t get swallowed up by the big dog just because its the easy way out.

It’ll kill your soul and destroy your dreams.

The more layers you can insert between a person’s concept of money, or at least the resources they have, and a thing that can be bought with resources, the better at confusing or enabling a person to buy a thing. This is why at the outset, Microsoft’s xbox store ran on points and not the user’s local currency. If you…

Is there anybody who actually thinks this stuff is fun?

I hear this one on nearly every speedrunning post I do and my response is always that these tricks take tons of practice to perform and these runners are infinite more knowledge about the games they run than you or me will ever be in pretty much anything.