Rubber bullets, beanbags and tasers are not used against armed suspects, because after a police officer shoots someone with rubber bullets, the suspect may respond by firing real bullets. If you hit an armed suspect with a Taser, they might randomly fire the gun as they lose control of their muscles.

People buy Nintendo hardware to play Nintendo software. The Wii basically got no viable multiplatform titles, or it got such severely compromised versions that only children and idiots bought them. It's long been assumed that when developers stop supporting PS3/360, they'll stop supporting Wii U, because they will…

Their episode was the first "Kitchen Nightmares" I ever saw, and afterwards, I watched a few more on Hulu.

You know, I usually stick up for cops who have to make tough decisions in legitimately challenging circumstances. But an unarmed drunk college kid in shorts with his hands up, probably blind from a faceful of pepper-spray, "advancing" on a line of cops in full riot gear is not a particularly dangerous situation for…

Are Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard really being hounded by paparazzi? I mean, "Parenthood" is a decent show, but I can't imagine buying a magazine to look at a picture of Dax Shepard shopping for groceries.

Scalability is the whole problem. The games have to scale down to meet the technical constraints of the Xbox 360 and it's 500 mb of memory. Games sell better on consoles, and so all the major titles are built around the consoles' constraints.

HBO and Pizzolatto have already announced that True Detective is continuing into a second season, and that McConaughey and Woody Harrelson will not be returning. Expect the final episodes to tie up their stories while leaving the core mystery unresolved. The Yellow King will continue into the second season, and the…

It is rare for a rape reported to police to be proven false. It is difficult to prove any kind of a negative, which is why we require prosecutors to prove guilt, but we don't require defendants to prove innocence.

I don't see how this is empowering at all. She has made these videos that will be on the Internet for most of her adult life. In any context she lives in, forever, she will have to constantly deal with people finding this out about her. Ten or fifteen years from now, when she is trying to get her kid into…

Yeah, for the price of a diamond engagement ring, you could buy something that's truly scarce, like a Hermes handbag.

This sounds like a much better deal than it is because diamonds sold at retail are obscenely profitable. Pricing is controlled by a cartel, and is completely decoupled from natural scarcity. The Atlantic published a great longform feature debunking diamond rings 30 years ago, but it didn't change anything:

What we expect when we buy a game sequel is that we'll see whatever we liked about the first game refined and expanded on. Mario or Zelda, in particular, are hallmarks of superlative quality. You can pre-order a Zelda game a year before it's released without having to wait for reviews, because you know Nintendo…

The guy who calls people who want to divvy up the bill "cheapskates" is always the motherfucker who had a steak and three cocktails while everyone else got salads.

This is the first time that I have ever thought that somebody who was famous on the Internet ought to be ashamed of themselves, and it turned out they were actually ashamed of themselves.

Count me on team petty troll! Fuck this game.

Platform-exclusive titles from third parties were a big part of the early 360/PS3 generation, but have since faded. With PS4/One so similar to each other and to PC, it's likely that most third parties will continue to make their games cross-platform. The Wii U hardware is not on the same level, and it will never get…

Naughty Dog's games for Sony are the only compelling exclusives right now on either XBONE or PS4, and Naughty Dog is just one team which puts out one game every other year. The God of War games are good and since I've got a PS4, I will buy them, but if I didn't have a PS4, I wouldn't buy one for GoW.

Nintendo has, by far, the best stable of first party titles. If the Nintendo console could also play Call of Duty, Bioshock and Destiny, many gamers would absolutely choose to play Smash, Mario and Zelda over Infamous and Killzone. These are games with metascores around 80%, and Nintendo's titles are routinely GOTY…

I agree with the first comment. Third party publishers need to be able to release their high-budget games across multiple platforms. When Nintendo releases inferior hardware with highly atypical controls, it makes it difficult for third parties to make their best games available on Nintendo's platform. That…

These outfits, which are essentially organized criminal gangs, haven't been paying real people to sit and farm World of Warcraft for years. What they do now is steal accounts. They send out lots of phishing e-mails for passwords and create websites to try to infect people with keyloggers that will transmit account…