Did you experience any issues with lag or stuttering? Tom's Hardware conducting a thorough benchmarking on a dual 295x2 system at Ultra HD resolution recently, and found that many games were nearly unplayable, not due to low average frame rates, but due to wild swings in frame rates.

If "they had a large number of condoms!" was the only evidence in the case, I'd agree with you. Keep in mind that most cases involve a lot of evidence, and it's generally not possible to tell what precise evidence the jury relied on in reaching that threshold of "beyond reasonable doubt."

Absolutely, but context matters. Seizing condoms from a brothel "staffed "by trafficking victims doesn't hurt those victims - they only need them because they're being coerced into sex, and they're sheltered from charges under NY anti-trafficking law. The condoms are being seized as evidence against the traffickers.

I suspect Ms. Baskin will be getting a lot of push back from anti-trafficking organizations - they're pretty keen on keeping all evidence seized in trafficking raids admissible in court. Especially those bulk boxes of condoms seized in raids on trafficking brothels, which are useful evidence that the proprietors…

Yes, there are a number of TVs on the market now with 120hz (or 240hz) refresh rates. Note that, while they can display plenty of frames per second, they're not necessarily that great for gaming, as TVs often have substantially higher input lag than monitors - especially specialized 120hz/144hz gaming monitors. Silky…

I have no details about the mob involved in this particular murder. I don't know whether they had full internet access and ultimately, I think the members of the mob are culpable for Ms. De Jesus's death either way. I just thought it worth noting that internet access in developing regions can look very different than…

Funny you should mention that, because the answer is "no" - in many developing areas of the world, the cost of the "regular" web is too high for many people, while corporations such as Facebook will deliberately subsidize access. As a result, for many people the internet basically = Facebook.

OK, how about New Zealand? Notably larger ethnic minority population share than the US, similar English common law heritage, not exactly known for police brutality.

In my opinion, the VFX work is what allowed the LOTR film trilogy to (arguably) match or surpass the original books.

I'm not aware of any fan consensus on the issue. But yes, she works so well as an inscrutable benefactor that it would almost seem a shame to use her as a primary villain after (only) two games.

You didn't think that they'd leave her out of Dragon Age: Inquisition, did you?

I wish people would stop repeating the idea that "restraining orders are ineffective." It's not true. Research suggests that do have an effect, particularly long-term no-contact orders. They're no panacea, and not perfect for every situation, but they can be a very helpful tool.

That's fair enough. I used to do similar tinkering with old games myself back when I had more time in my life.

You appear to be either missing or discounting the amount of time and effort it takes to get an old game stable and running on modern operating systems and hardware. That's effort worth paying for, assuming you're planning to run the game on a modern computer. Keep in mind that re-releases are generally very cheap,…

These fellas used to be a common sight in New Zealand, until we learnt to stop feeding the kiwis after midnight.

A) I completely agree that the majority of Deadspin commentors were on the side of the cheerleaders, and in no way intended to imply otherwise. My comment was solely focused on those comments I have seen that defend the underpayment of cheerleaders (that are inapplicable to the underpayment of mascots), as this was…

I'm not sure sure how to link to individual comments, but if you go digging through the comments of the various Gawker articles, you'll find them:
http://deadspin.com/heres-every-fi…
http://deadspin.com/nfl-cheerleadi…

The most common defense I've seen of underpaying cheerleaders (based solely on what I've read in internet comments), is that these cheerleaders are sufficiently compensated in terms of status / social capital (ie, the enhanced ability to attract desirable men) that they do not need to be receive minimum wage /…

Agreed. There's a huge gap between "women say they like this trait in men" to "this trait has been sexually selected." Self-reported data in general, and self-reported data about sex-related topics in particular, is known to be prone to culturally-influenced reporting biases.

And thus it came to pass that World War 3 was to be fought over chocolate, the weapons rich and terrifying, the losers to be tortured with by force-feeding until their inevitable death by diabetes.