Given maintenance teams are supposed to visually inspect the track on coasters every day before giving the goahead to operate and the crack was visibly forming at least a week before it was caught, you've got to wonder what the Hell they were looking at during those track walks.

I wonder if that’s an engineering error in addition to the structural failure? Thanks to the action shot you can see how that part is probably getting stressed in ways not intended.

But... It couldn’t center on a straight romance. The main conflict of the game and the literal reason the home is empty is that your sister is gay and your parents are homophobic. Every single element of the game is informed by that. It’s like saying that the film milk is just ok and if it wasn’t about a gay dude it…

Yeah no shit. The story’s about a young girl discovering her sexuality and how it affects the rest of her life, her relationship with her family.

Employer provides incredible benefits package, using money earned from doing good deeds. Kotaku: “Isn’t that terrible?”

They do if they have investors!

One of the inherent flaws of capitalism is that in order to see return on their investment capital, the investors need to be able to liquidate their holdings. To do that, someone else needs to want to buy them. Then they expect to get a return on their purchase.

But, they already have the story/social stuff from the last game, at least the code/framework for it. Yes, you’d need new writing, but they needed new writing for this game too.

A bit disappointing as for me we tend to have the choice between “forgettable social elements with awesome tactical gameplay” or “great social elements with slightly less awesome tactical gameplay” and if I have to choose, I’d take the later but it’s even sadder that they can’t seem to nail both.

I think many people assume because she is the one on camera there is no one else.  Like many big streamers, ESPECIALLY ones as big as her, have a whole cadre of people behind the scenes on her payroll.

To paraphrase John Donne, no one is an island, floating in a hottub entirely by themselves. Solid, social reason!

My bank doesn’t like Green Man, I typically go with CDKeys if I’m desperate to save a buck. That said, your snark is excessive considering we have to trust a key site to come through on these deals which doesn’t always go smoothly. If someone buys from Steam directly they’re out a few bucks but it’s a one stop shop.…

I mean, those are better prices, but they’re not as much better as I might expect. Not “screw you”-worthy. Most of them are $4-5 less.

Leaving a school aged child at home for an hour or two while you run an errand should be fine. The average age for this is 12 which is a tween.

Can’t undermine parents’ authority if they're not exerting any! 

This is, I think, the crux of the issue. Kids coming in and making a mess of a store is something you kind of have to expect at a toy store, or video game store, and Gamestop is basically both.

When I was a kid, my parents gave me a few simple rules when out in public:

1. Whoever runs the business makes the rules. If I don’t follow the rules they’ve set up, they can kick me out. If an employee tells me not to do something, I stop.
2. I do not own anything until I actually purchase it. If I damage it, I have…

I’m old enough to remember my parents giving me $5 and a Coke, and leaving me at Aladdin’s Castle while they did their thing at Dillard’s, or whatever. If I ran out of tokens I’d hit KB Toys. Last ditch was the record store or Sears, in case they had a video game demo station set up. They knew where to find me. Of…

I’ve been buying anime from RightStuf for literal decades. The removal of its hentai section doesn’t directly inconvenience me, as I’ve never made use of that particular branch of their service. Nevertheless, I find the merger troubling.
Despite assurances to the contrary, its seems entirely plausible that Rightstuf’s…

Look, I understand that Crunchyroll might be a familiar name, but perhaps claiming that they bought Right Stuf is kind of misleading because it’s their parent company, Sony, which did it. Crunchyroll itself had little to do with this...

While sloppily handled I thought she was a commentary on sex object characters. These characters exist all throughout anime or comic-based media and nobody bats an eye. Does Black Widow have a personality in Avengers? Does her falling in love with Hulk or being said about being unable to have children count as…