Strictly speaking, I don't think the second goal in a 2-0 game can be considered the "game-winner", but damn that was impressive.

TNT is still cable, right? Standards/FCC aren't gonna bother them for something like that, and TNT clearly doesn't mind verbal feces all around from their broadcasters.

A spoonful of regular sugar has worked for me literally 100% of the time, even with the worst hiccups.

On that note, SimCity 4 at least had "My Sims" which would live at a consistent place and work at a consistent place, instead of behaving in a way beholden to a deranged sort algorithm. I don't know if every Sim in your city did that as part of their modeling, but your individual (and importable from The Sims) Sims…

Pretty well one of my all-time favorite calls in all of sport. "OH, IT'S INCREDIBLE." Seriously. Nothing makes a great moment of screaming at the television better than a truly great call to listen to over and over again on replays. Ian Darke, man.

It's clearly an April Fool's/viral campaign with Oakley. Oakley Oakley Oakley. But it's a damn elaborate one, so that's fun!

Yeah, that's fair. I'm guessing it's a combination of things, mostly involving management not allowing their infrastructure to be anything but proprietary and wholly owned by them, but maybe they're wising up and using some cloud resources... Maybe I'll pick the game up around Black Friday when it's $25 and people can…

Use a third party cloud provider for excess capacity for the initial rush. Build an Amazon Machine Image so that you can run your game servers on Amazon EC2 high-capacity instances. Spin up 200-500 of them. Have a plan in place to transition saved cities and regions to other servers as they grow dormant and as you…

So they knew how many pre-orders they had... and they had an idea or some projections on what sort of volume they'd see... and they've presumably identified how many users can connect to a given server... how were they not prepared? How did they not have excess capacity spun up and ready? I really don't understand how…

Give them what they want!

...they do? I've been to two or three Ace Hardwares in Tempe and haven't seen any pet scorpions. God I hate scorpions.

This is the same sort of internal dialog I've been having. I've played SimCity since the SNES/Classic days, SimLife, SimTower, SimFarm... I've loved Maxis since 2nd grade and I almost feel compelled to just buy it out of respect for that and Will Wright. But I made that mistake with Spore, which I played exactly 24…

That's a great story. My friend and I played cooperative SoM all the way through to the Mana Fortress but we just didn't have the levels... cure water or whatever, to get through it. We tried, a LOT, tried leveling up, and always got struck down. It was the rare beast of a coop RPG that was a lot of fun for us. He…

+1 Jeez.

So is it too early to start talking about the opportunity to see some hot Harbaugh on Harbaugh SB action?

I can't believe that the Flyers watched what Bryz did to us Coyotes and said "yeah, we can make that work." We ended up with one of the best in the league, and couldn't be happier. You really think they'll flush the remaining 7 years of his contract?

Ha! Brilliant! Will consider and perhaps try!

Oh god, this clip is in today's highlights reel and I couldn't stop laughing at your comment. It's so delightfully single-minded in its focus and man, it got me into one of those this-isn't-that-funny-but-I-can't-stop-laughing/crying fits I haven't had in a long time.

Yeah, our defense has proven that they're able to destroy other teams, at least when they're not being run 50 minutes/game.

Ha. Alex Smith, if we're dreaming. And an O-line that keeps his ribs where they belong.