Pick up the HD remaster when it launches? It's a PC game, so if the launch price of the standard version is too high, you'll be able to pick it up on sale within months.

My apologies - my post was a little ambiguous. I was trying to suggest that Mr. Kinsella was attempting a deliberate troll attempt that is only humorous/insightful for those who believe that there's no legitimate distinction between rape jokes at the expense of victims and rape jokes at the expense of…

Keep fighting the good fight, Arden. It's difficult wading into the sea of vituperation that arises whenever someone talks about women in gaming (or, for that matter, Patricia publishes a post on anything at all - she has quite the following of trolls at this point, as most even remotely feminist bloggers do).

Apologies - I was definitely unclear.

John Kinsella is unable/unwilling to recognize the importance of the distinction between a joke at the expense of rape victims and a joke at the expense of rapists/ineffective responses to rape. Ergo, he considers it hypocritical to be outraged at the former but not the latter. He is thus attempting to make a joke /…

I broadly agree. Microsoft ARE tuning Windows 8 to improve the experience - slowly, as is Microsoft's way. And the overall goal - software that works in a fairly similar fashion across all your devices - is an admirable one. (We're getting to the stage where phones/tablets/computers all have sufficient power to handle…

I'm sorry, but Windows 8 is needlessly confusing. Perhaps not as confusing as people assume, but it's a hybrid of two entirely different operating paradigms with entirely different UI conventions and a number of unexpected links between the two of them. You can be working happily in the desktop version of Word, open a…

Not only might it be unseemly, there's also the possibility of violating ethical rules on giving money to clients.

Wait - you became interested in this product due to word-of-mouth about its quality, but you decided against buying because it didn't have an advertising campaign?

You know, this is one of those pieces that could benefit by including actual sign-up numbers, so that people can put the ACA's website (and other) issues in perspective. (Hint: Signups were around 95% of projections as of March 27: http://acasignups.net/)

It's possible that you're joking, but it's pretty common for domestic abusers to smash and destroy property that their victims care about. Quite apart from the financial and emotional harm of having your stuff destroyed, in many cases it's an implicit threat to the victim - "if you don't do what I want, you're next."

You joke, but Australia's already at $16 for adults, with 6% unemployment and the highest median wealth per capita in the world. Australia hasn't had a recession in 20 years. While $50 might indeed be excessive, there's no reason to believe that a high minimum wage is inconsistent with national prosperity, and indeed,…

Abrahams has now pled guilty. Is there a good reason why this article should lead a picture of one of his victims and not of Abrahams himself? ("She's better click-bait" is not a particularly good reason, in my opinion.)

As indicated by Derr Bear, grumm and TooSlick 30, solid state drives read and write data much, much faster than a mechanical hard drive. What's difficult to convey is exactly how much of an improvement this is to the user experience. When your computer starts up in 10 seconds flat, it's less of a chore when you need…

I have a toddler, so this post prompted me to check the schedule to see if he's had his second MMR shot yet. (There are a lot of 'em, so I tend to lose track. And incidentally, the answer is no; the second shot comes at 4-5 years old.)

Thanks for clarifying. Wasn't that easier to type than some nigh-impenetrable, vaguely hostile rumination on the proper use of quotation marks? It was certainly easier to understand.

While playing with language can be fun, doing so is impolite when the other party to the conversation is more interested in precision of communication than delving into meanings and ambiguity. In such cases, the polite thing to do add further explanation of what you meant, rather than enter a discourse on the correct…

And yet Senator Gillibrand's effort to take the prosecution of sexual assault cases out of the hands of the conflict-of-interest-ridden chain of command was just filibustered by a fellow Democrat. (Well - blocked despite having 55/100 votes, if not technically filibustered.)

It's not actually tort reform, but rather recent Supreme Court decisions interpreting the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_A…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mo…

I'm in the "wait for the reviews" camp. I plan to buy Inquisition IF reliable sources indicate that it's a quality Bioware game that hasn't been damaged by a rush release, exploitative DLC policies, etc. Yes, that's a big "IF" given Bioware/EA's recent track record, but if they skip the shenanigans and put out a…