Did you actually read the thing you’re linking to? The author clearly has no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Because that’s some grade A fucking nonsense. He has to redefine what “fiat” means in order to make the point that “all money is fiat”?

Actually, the term fiat denotes a currency that is backed by the legal power of a government. That government enforces regulation regarding forgery, and uses that currency in fiscal actions and international trading.

I’m not certain you understand the core values of a business, which are a) make money, b) lock in your long-term audience so that you can keep making money. Anything else professed by a business is lofty public relations language.

Sorry, but this dude’s out to lunch if he thinks these are genuine, positive feelings on either side. Maybe he’s always been attracted to this person, but you don’t go twenty years without trying to resolve something genuine. You go twenty years with a nebulous, undefined relationship of co-dependency. Maybe he likes…

With all due respect, I think you’re confusing “amount” of lore with “lore chops”. The quality of the Warcraft story is.... grade 6 fantasy at best. Sure, there’s a lot of it, but does that mean it’s going to make a great movie? I mean... there’s already a Dungeons and Dragons movie, and look how that turned out.

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Counterpoint: Meh.

Hi there, person who studied classical philosophy for a couple of years here. There actually should be no shouting about this whatsoever, as this sort of doctrine falls under the “beyond the realm of human sense-existence” realm. For example - the free will “paradox” isn’t really a paradox. It doesn’t matter that god…

I’m pretty sure John Goodman gets exactly the roles he wants. He’s a very particular actor, who only does very particular things on screen and on stage. But he’s recognized globally as one of the finest actors of our generation. I wouldn't worry about his respect levels.

So in an emergency, instead of 1 big flashlight that might have old, nearly-expired batteries, you'll have 12 tiny flashlights that might have old, nearly-expired batteries?

Honestly, my response to this is just total, visceral fatigue with everything associated with Marvel. I’m at superhero saturation in every form.

Just carrying a thing under your skin doesn’t really make you a cyborg. It’s just an awkward way of holding something. If someone with a magnet in their finger is a cyborg just because of their interaction with this inanimate object, that makes me a cyborg because of my glasses. A cybernetic system has an interaction…

How could anyone not see this coming years ago? A company which secures a high-powered board of government advisors and enormous capital before having ANY other foundation is going to be on some level fraudulent. This company coasted on those names and that money, and the awkward "tech charisma" (read: "irritating…

Hahaha. That's a subtle, subtle +1.

Beyond excited about the return of Sense8, which is one of the very few genuinely character-driven science fiction dramas that is designed for adults. It's an amazing show with genuine richness and a sense of fun.

The only reason any part of this insanely moronic “counterculture” works is because industry culture is so backwards and archaic that things said on Twitter are still lent some semblance of credulity. One day corporations will wake to the fact that Twitter is literally a huge, hot pile of worthless garbage populated…

Daily dose of pedantic correction to assumed pedantry: Actually, a ball bearing is the whole joint. The small steel balls that enable it to rotate are call "bearing balls".

“Instead of giving money to the cause, as you might expect” said the pretentious, conniving billionaire, “we are directing our new charitable initiative to devote at least 7 Billion dollars to developing high tech, distributed apps in the form of facebook add-ons, that will identify the race of each user, and help…

"And he mixed T.L.O.P.in like a week, and so it sounds like a hot pile of ass leaking into your ear."

As a person whose mom was born and raised in a small village in the toe-end of Italy, I can honestly say that each Italian person’s food is defined by their tiny tiny region, and the regions spend so much time and energy with the hilarious national pastime of disputing the “best” recipes that it doesn’t matter what…