I think their point was that parents with depression have an obligation to seek treatment... and to avoid things like alcohol.

You’re missing the part where depression can warp your ability to make these sorts of decisions.

I can’t imagine an idealized world where companies are expected to engage in virtue policing.

There is a grey area in the middle between controversial and illegal that will continually present challenges for any company in this space (eg. 3rd party gambling, IP claims) but, as a general policy, this announcement seems…

Why would you be rude to a cop who isn’t being rude to you (seems like people are projecting... this cop sounds a bit stupid but nothing in the account makes him sound nefarious)? Most of a cops job is asking people questions. Why take on legal costs (lawyers) and potential hassles with your landlord (probably where…

Columbine shooting: 1999

A class action lawsuit would still ensue.

... didn’t that loss hinge on the fact that Sony offered the ability to boot linux in the first place (something to do with them going out of their way to drum up excitement about their cell processor in server applications)? That seems to be a totally different situation.

It often surprises me when people conflate “technically, not supposed to do” with “illegal”. I imagine it could eventually be trespassing if someone refused to adhere to the rules of the park and wouldn’t relocate to designated areas... but that would have to involve park officials and even then it’s a stretch.

In…

Do we get to choose who we’re attracted to?

There is very little to reasonably criticize in your comment here beyond the overall sentiment (and I may be totally misreading you) that any of us choose who we find attractive.

I don’t have to remember every one of my birthdays to be fairly certain that I had one every year.

While the above statement is a bit hyperbolic and not a perfect analogy... he doesn’t ever need to think “did I eat 2 Big Macs last Thursday?” because he eats 2 every day. I mean... he probably has a dramatic memory of…

I think The Simpsons was progressive, for its time, for even having a relatively prominent Indian character at all and I think their major error has simply been not doing enough to update the characters as the audience made social progress. This is understandable, if not strictly excusable, because all the incentives…

There is this weird dynamic in competitive games where a person will say something explicitly to offend the other person as a way of illustrating their upset or frustration at a situation. A person might call another an “asshole” or a “shithead” or they may just scream “laaag” (the latter seems less personal but is…

The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.

It’s a fact that they under-delivered at launch. If your enjoyment of the game hinged on that fact, for you, then it’s totally understandable that you would hold the opinion that the game was not good. It’s still just an opinion.

Farcry 5 doesn’t run on any pre-bulldozer AMD processor due to the SSE4.1 requirement. This means that if you have an AMD CPU more than ~7 years old, even a reasonably capable 4 or 6 core 3ghz+ Phenom II, the game won’t even launch.

He was the Dean of his college... meaning he’s in a position of considerable power over most of the people he interacted with on a daily basis. I’m sure complaints were made, some are mentioned in this article, but anyone complaining would have been putting their career (academic or professional) at risk. It’s the…

It shouldn’t be surprising that Americans find American mumbo-jumbo especially tedious to sit through.

My show involves me reading a lot of books, watching a lot of TV and playing a lot of video games. I’m not especially concerned over my ratings.

If we’re talking about minimizing assumptions, then looking at that video, I see a vehicle equipped with systems that normally allow it to see through everything from darkness to light fog (i.e. things that not even humans are equipped with), making no attempt to brake.