It didn’t. I’m not going to waste bacon on a car when I could be eating it instead. Let the car have the lesser pork.

Not sure when I’ll actually get around to playing it, but consider my vote cast.

That may be true on the normal internet, but not on some of the janky corporate environments I’ve dealt with. It’s really annoying to have to explicitly tell someone to type “https://”, otherwise their site will fail to load. Some of the sites I need to guide end-users to even require port numbers to be specified. And…

I say “www” instead of “World Wide Web” because if I’m saying it, it’s because I need someone to type it in. And if someone needs to be told to type that part of a URL in, I don’t want them typing in “worldwideweb” instead of “www”.

Any patents that could have applied to a Willys Jeep would have expired decades ago and would be completely legal to exploit by other companies. FCA is basically claiming trademark infringement, which is something entirely different from patent infringement. That being said, I’d say the look of a Jeep is distinctive…

Google does not make most of the phones Fortnite will run on. Even in cases where Google does make the phone, the customer paid for the OS and hardware when they bought the phone. For non-Google phones, the manufacture is already compensating Google for inclusion of Google’s software.

I guess sometimes Captain Morgan just can’t wait for drunk driving to claim his victims...

The last time I browsed for games at a store without knowing in advance what I wanted, big budget games were still available on 5.25" floppies. As soon as I had access to video game magazines, random browsing became a thing of the past. And now with the internet, there are so many ways to learn about new games, I…

Very good points, and the dangers from mistaken identity aren’t merely hypothetical, as evidenced by the time a man was charged for bleeding on a police uniform.

When the “inconvenience” can turn out like the time a man was charged for bleeding on a police uniform, then yes, I think the counter argument is that no inconvenience is worth an increase in apprehension. When police make mistakes, people can be injured or killed. Would you want to keep eating at a restaurant that…

The problem people are always complaining about is discoverability. If too many titles like that start popping up, it becomes harder to find quality titles in a sea of shovelware. Personally, this has never really affected me as I’ve always relied on traditional methods of game discovery (word of mouth,professional…

Not really. We’ve known Han was in IV since 1977.

I see that as being a dangerous line of thinking. After all, lots of products exist that have readily foreseeable ways that they can be misused. For instance, cars are quite deadly—so much so that the annual death toll by cars rivals that of guns. We’re not talking about something like a shovel where there are rare…

Wow, you are NOT kidding! I watched someone play No Man’s Sky for the first time. I had never played it either, so watching the game in action was a new experience for me, too. Anyway, I watched as my friend was running around on their first planet. It was a very hot planet, which was triggering periodic heat damage.…

Yep! I bought several retail copies of Sierra adventure games for $3 each from someone who was leaving for college, and Hero’s Quest was one of the games. It was the first Sierra game I was able to complete without any hints whatsoever. I played it on a Tandy 1000 in Tandy 16-color. It’s easily my favorite Sierra game…

No, it’s the other way around. It’s copyright infringement unless the copyright holder says that it is not. Crimes only require the absence of consent, not the presence of dissent. Stealing someone’s wallet isn’t legal just because the owner hasn’t noticed it missing, mistakenly thought they misplaced it, or decided…

Also worth noting that Michael Jackson didn’t patent shoes for the Moonwalk either. The shoes Michael Jackson patented were designed to lock into a specially designed stage to allow the 45-degree lean seen in Smooth Criminal, which would be impossible to perform with ordinary shoes. As proven many, many times, it’s…

Overwatch is another good example of creative people not necessarily getting the credit or financial compensation they deserve. A lot of that game exists on tumblrs and twitter feeds filled with fanart and fanfiction, a well Blizzard, I’d argue, has become even somewhat dependent on as it continues trying to develop…

If you use a foreign car, you’re just going to validate why they’re so dangerous and should have insanely high tariffs. 

I eriously doubt any streaming content provider is going to let you get away with only paying a price equivalent to two games per year. Be ready to pay by the hour, for premium library access, for more a more powerful VM, and more. Nvidia was already planning to charge by the hour and by the amount of GPU performance…