I believe it's possible that you're overestimating your typical American male's adherence to best practices when it comes to informed consent.

Also true. The life of a street urchin in the 1800s was pretty damn awful, which was a huge factor in why there was support for people intervening in those children's lives. I do think that it's hard to say in hindsight whether public opinion was in favor of what actually ended up happening to the children (ie,…

You're complaining about encountering judgmental parents... in Park Slope, Brooklyn?

Children are susceptible to abuse on a colossal scale by groups of people, and by governments. That is why they need legal protections and their rights as individuals and a class of person should require the attention & care of every adult who thinks they deserve to be called an adult.

This sounds a lot like the twisted "protectionist" logic that was used to justify the mass kidnapping of Aboriginal children in Australia up until the 1970s.

Yes, but only jimmyjams that wouldn't look out of place in a generic sci-fi movie.

Fair enough! I'm not big into overkill myself, but I appreciate the cash and work you and yours put into cutting edge tech. It helps make the tech cheaper and more reliable for us mainstream types.

We're in a bit of an odd space in graphics right now. The top of the line cards (970/980/290X) are close to overkill for most modern games when running at a typical 1080P or 1400P setup. On the other hand, the same cards just don't deliver decent performance when maxing out those same games at 4K. We'll probably need…

Definitely check your bills. I caught ATT tacking on extra charges back in 2011-2012. For information on how to get a refund, here's the official Federal Trade Commission page:
http://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/ca…

Really, Commander?

How on earth is Bioware "forcing transexuals in your face" here? This is a minor character - definitely not within the top 12 characters by lines, and probably much lower - and the stuff about trans sexuality is at most 5-10 minutes of optional gameplay with a game that has 100+ hours of gameplay. We're not exactly…

Gorgeous art, though you should probably throw a NSFW tag on there. (Given the naked woman in a bathtub of blood.)

Both would be fine if he had the consent of his (ex) girlfriend. They'd also be fine if he posted them without the intent to cause her distress. Here's the text of SB 255, which shows who's guilty under the law:

The tactical camera on PC is currently pretty horrible, in my opinion. You really should be able to both scroll the screen and select targets using the mouse, rather than having the target locked to the center of the screen and having to scroll using the keyboard. Areas with overlapping elevation levels (bridges etc)…

This definitely smells like a DRM issue to me. Though, to be fair, most people don't switch out their GPU nine times in the span of a week.

While Bioware's games have historically lagged behind on graphics, decided to switch from their aging Eclipse engine to the Frostbite 3 engine for Dragon Age: Inquisition. That's the same engine that runs Battlefield 4. I suspect it's premature to be making pronouncements on how good the graphics will be.
http://www.fro…

Sorry - that was meant to be a joke.

I believe that you're thinking about Mass Effect. In Dragon Age, it's not magnets that cause everyone's weapons to stick to their backs without sheathes or straps. It's magic!

Unless she died on the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2, of course.

There was a time when many US legal observers seriously believed that worker's compensation programs would expand to cover all injuries and essentially wipe out most of tort law. It actually did happen in some countries (see New Zealand's accident compensation system), but obviously did not happen in the US.