@Goldwings: Wants pudding: Whiteknighting the ladiez on Kotaku isn't going to get you laid, hate to be the bearer of bad news.

@Musouka [Region 4]: Psh, please don't apologize. It's the internet, what I said was rude in its own way too. The beauty of being online is you can forgo the social expectations of being perfectly polite and just get your point across.

@Musouka [Region 4]: My internet is terrible, I'm not shoving my $20/month comcast in anyone's face. If I were rocking FiOS, maybe, but five hours is sensationalism.

@Murderdolls: It's had seven years, the amount of polish on it seems a bit ridiculous at this point to be honest. Don't forget that there are two more games coming, too.

@Kiri Komori: Downloaded for me in 15 minutes, sorry to hear about your bad internet.

I wonder what kind of content is in this patch. To my knowledge, all they were doing in Phase 2 was some networking optimization, and that things such as interface tweaks (that custom game screen is awful) and other optimizations would wait for post-release patches. 500 mb seems to be either interface tweaks or added…

@Nulls: Wait- you loved Starcraft 1, but you don't like Starcraft 2 because it's faithful to Starcraft 1? That really doesn't make any sense.

@NorwoodIsMyHero: Sounds awesome, not my type of thing maybe, but still awesome in its own way. I'd just be too worried about someone getting carried away and tossing my keyboard or tipping over my case, but games are always fun when you do your own variants.

@Hi-Im-Asylum: How fast your population rises has nothing to do with how fast you can jam hotkeys. I've heard so many arguments from both sides of the APM argument, the only one I can accept is: Setting rally points and doing really rapid stuff is pointless in a sense, but what it does is keep you ready for when you…

@esarphie: The Sky is falling! Oh no! Not change!

@GeneralBattuta: And it can be argued that Bungie is less about the Building and more about the core idea behind their projects. Halo's their baby, but Bungie doesn't want to be tied to just one product. They did a split voluntarily, they wanted to maintain some creative input on Halo while also being free from a…

@Fenlain: 343, even.

@DocSeuss: 434 Studios is the Halo part of Bungie. For God's sake, Frankie works there.

That tie looks like one of the textures you could set on the 3D Maze screensaver in Windows 95/98.

@Sent from my toilet:

@Jux: I'd go for technical advancements, throw enough money in there and you could definitely get away with upgraded flash memory. I misspoke, something like an iPhone would be pretty hard to get $20k out of without resorting to throwing diamonds on it, but you could do a lot more for thousands less if you were into…

You know, you -can- make something justifiably $20,000 without resorting to something stupid like smearing diamonds on every flat surface. That's the easy way to make it expensive.

The announcer's face in the second picture, perfect. The kid's totally stylin' on everyone else, look at that smug grin. He's caught them all, and he knows it.

@Fenlain: Wow, brain fart. People used to watch orchestrated train wrecks *for fun

@mecha2142: Back in the 1800s people used to watch orchestrated train wrecks was cool, so I'd say we've advanced a bit.