Exactly like those.

Well, *nil*. But the odds of this going mainstream as it stands are also *nil*. So, as to question (2) No, and neither will Microsoft / Xbox. I am sure they are billing for Azure internally and will be passing it on to their customers or not doing anything more than a tech demo. Its not free for anybody.

They would just rent the computing needs from Amazon or some other purveyor.

The moment they are willing to pay for cloud computing services to handle things like this without passing them on to me in the form of a subscription service, I’ll buy their underpowered little internet appliance.

But we all know thats not how its going to work. The Azure costs will be passed right back to you in the…

If you kill me, I won’t be able to tell you where I hid the beer.

You know that God by so, so many names, “Moolah, Dinero, Green, Cha-ching.”

“Now you will argue that that criticism is invalid. Just shut the hell up already. No one is obligated to tell you why your shit stinks.”

The very first image on this page shows an oversexualized female character in S&M pose. If you are so dense not to be able to connect the dots, that someone needs to take the time to spell it out for you why this sort of stuff is problematic to a lot of people, even when used as parody of other problematic things,…

Top heavy alien falls over, can’t move on spindly legs, Ripley cries herself to sleep on giant pillow. The end.

Actually YOU are the thing thats wrong, that you can’t handle any criticism at all without jumping to defend something on the grounds that nobody can judge anything that anybody at all finds value in.

Oh yeah, you can’t criticize anything ANYONE might enjoy for whatever reason because they might feel bad or some bullshit. Get off the internet, you freaking thought policing twit. He can judge anyone or anything he wants to. Its called f’ing free speech. Feel free to disagree with him but quit trying to censor his…

Finally something we all can agree on.

Waaaaah! Stop criticizing stuff I like!

Not this quickly? WoW is a really old game. I mean its closer in its release date to Ultima Online and the original Everquest than it is to the present day. The people who have started with WoW on launch day are now eleven years older and have gone through how many significant life events?

I suspect the game thrives…

No, but his employer five management levels up and publishing house stakeholders might be. Are you defending the anime creator who isn’t the artist, or are you indicting consumer culture — I can applaud either move, but mock worshipping a consumer icon created by underpaid nearly-slave labor is still kind of tacky.

You do realize you’re ‘worshipping’ the fevered creation of an unshaven man who lives on a steady diet of cup ramen and probably hasn’t had a proper shower in weeks...

You don’t worship the Buddha; you kill the Buddha.

How much is it and when can I get one stateside?

Always wanted an Evangelion pachinko machine for my game room ... oooh Ninja Gaiden.

He said ‘If’ and in response you admitted that indeed your entire personality *IS* defined by the media you consume by taking offense to it. I think I can safely say that makes you the type of shallow, thin skinned person who tells people to go fuck themselves when they criticize cultural trappings that you define…

Yeah, well the boycott of his dental practice is already in motion. I feel bad for his staff who had nothing to do with his asinine hunting trips, but hopefully they will land with a boss who isn’t an inhuman jackass.