If you had ‘social fundamentals’ you probably wouldn’t keep saying that people need to learn social fundamentals or get new friends, or think that everyone needs to announce to everyone else when they are online, or that having the option of not doing that is somehow superfluous.

For a guess culture like Japan, you’d…

They can handle it just fine. The problem is having to message each of them, over and over and over, to say ‘not today’ to the point they will stop asking. This is not the preferred outcome - because there are times I *am* receptive and do want to be asked. When I’m online, I want it to mean I’m available to game, not…

Oh please. If my friends are that insecure that they can’t handle someone earning a trophy without them, then I need better friends. I have more than *three* online at any given time so somebody’s obviously being left out every time I game coop anyway.

“I never understood this concept. Why do you need to appear offline? Someone trolling you? Block them. This isn’t the 1990s with AIM. Grow up. If you don’t wanna play with someone then don’t or remove them from your friends list. Stop being insecure dickweeds and man/woman up.”

Because, oh, I don’t know, maybe I have a…

Its not impossible but its not entirely trivial - this is a legacy system that all the stores and services tie back to. It sounds like when they wrote it they decided to use names as a primary key, so if they change the name they risk breaking all the links between their tables unless the update process is perfect -…

I’ll vote for him if he puts his money where his mouth is and starts up hard labor camps for all the retired people surviving on social security and medicare that form his base demographic - they want to be productive too!

Thos of us who actually are working know full well that perpetual growth is unsustainable, and…

That they said it in the article doesn’t make it true. They haven’t even established that this one occurrence was true. Its a tautology. “He’s good at making plagiarized work look non-plagiarized, so all the stuff that looks non-plagiarized is evidence of his plagiarism.”

Sorry. No.

Especially since the people making…

I really don’t think he’s copying and pasting. I think he’s one of very few people who has gone through the game and thought about the backstory. If he’s plagiarized, he’s plagiarized ideas that are prevalent, and probably developed collaboratively, in the very small community of people who do this sort of thing (ie.,…

I thought I did, but then I took a nap inside a coffin. Now things are different.

/obligatory DS2 reference, meeting Nito just made me a PK.

You obviously only saw one of his videos. I suspect he gets all his lore from the same reddit thread everybody does. (Which I think is probably the one that he wrote). There isn’t a lot of material here and you don’t just get to make it up and then call it anything other than a theory.

I mean, I don’t care, and maybe…

Considering you have to buy a book to find out the name for “those wheelchair guys that throw stuff at you”, I found that description perfectly apropos.

There are only so many gestures half-way appropriate to use after a fight - the winner isn’t going to ‘bow’ to a corpse or ‘beg for mercy’ or ‘wave’. There are only so many fight animations with weapons and armor that are proscribed through the lore of these characters. So yeah, I believe people will come up with the…

Ouch! Invisible ceiling!

There’s plagiarism and then there’s creative collision. If you generate a large enough corpus of work in a small enough field, eventually there will be collisions. Personally, I think this is that. How much money he makes off it is irrelevant since we’d hold a plagiarist to account even if he was doing it for free -…

“Golden Corral has called you out, Guardian... ...You are challenged in the ways of o-o-o-o-ld...”

The codes are only two letters long, and contain only the characters, U and F, but you have to guess the correct order.

Wow, what a way to reward your players - everyone loves jumping through hoops for a ribbon. Wait... no... thats just dogs and ponies.

I was thinking that this version would come with a robot arm that would throw the money at the screen for you, or hold your redbull, or throw the redbull at the screen and hold your money. Anyway, it was supposed to come with that, but I guess they couldn’t hire a good enough voice actor to say ‘defend me while I open…

Its all the geography you can’t go to.

There should be a law against ‘Contempt of Consumer’. This has nothing to do with the pretty PS4. Or the fact that you have to buy Destiny in order to get one. Well, actually it does. You shouldn’t inflict Destiny upon people who mistakenly buy a pretty PS4 thinking it probably comes with a game and not a marketing…