IIRC, there are safe haven clauses in most of the relevant laws that prevent you from suing websites over content uploaded by a user so long as the site makes some kind of an effort to police itself, on the principle that no policing measures are ever going to be perfect. A site only gets in trouble when it knowingly…

Its almost like Melee is a broken game and its fans refuse to acknowledge that.

I mean no offense to you when I say this, but the ugly truth is that many of them DO come from the military, and the rest are being trained by those who wish they had. Cool heads, hot heads, the problem is their approach towards conflict resolution. When they should be de-escalating situations, they are instead…

Body cams were never meant to provide justice. They were sold to us, the people, on that premise, but they were sold to the police on their ability to do the opposite— as a tool to provide evidence of when people are wrong to complain about a cop’s behavior, because the cops are not obligated in the slightest to…

Yeah, but being lied to repeatedly isn’t gaslighting. No matter how stubborn a liar is, they are just a liar. Being told you are delusional for believing something the abuser knows to be true is gaslighting. Both of our definitions show that the writer of this article does not know what “gaslighting” actually means.…

For that matter, there is plenty of evidence for a similar contagion effect with mass shootings as with suicides. Journalists have already adopted standards regarding suicide, but they seem reluctant to accept their responsibility in the proliferation of shootings. You don’t need to talk about the killers and the gory…

Oh its definitely a case of “correlation is not causation”. The study appears to ignore the sociological and economic factors of who drinks a ton of soda, and that effects the statistics. While they might be able to factor out overall diet and lifestyle, its all too easy for them to ignore that poor and working class…

To be fair, MatPat has done recent videos criticizing the entire business model of MCNs as predatory after an MCN and its bank stole millions from him and about 50 other youtubers, and while the videos are primarily about the MCNs themselves he makes it clear that MCNs only exist because Youtube makes life hard on…

Don’t forget the additional problem that streaming games has the same essential problem as Always Online and Games as a Service: you don’t actually own the 60$ game you payed for. It exists on the cloud server, and as soon as that goes down you can’t play your game— possibly ever again. Its a gaming preservationist’s…

Ergonomics are determined by the shape of the pad and the handles, not by the position of the buttons and the sticks. Where your thumb rests depends on the angle your hands hold the controller by, and in my experience with dualshock controllers VS XBox controllers they have the handles at different angles precisely so…

Or for the EU to fine them into oblivion outside the US.

And you won’t actually own your games because you won’t own the physical media its stored on. So when the servers inevitably shut down because no platform lasts forever (and I would bet money on this flopping) you won’t be able to play your library of games anymore. Streaming is not the future of gaming— its the death…

“Imagine, if you will, a gaming platform that has no need for a system or physical media of any kind, completely streaming and dependent on a solid online connection.” is the kind of statement that should always be read as “you will need us more than we need you to turn a profit.”

That argument depends entirely on the shape of the controller as a whole, not just the layout of the buttons. The XBox controller never fit my hand because its too damn big (yes, even after they shrunk it), so the control stick generally forces my thumb to stretch further in order to play, and that is in no way…

3) you don’t actually own the games, so when the service inevitably dies and the servers are shut down, your library of games vanishes in a puff of smoke. The entire idea of cloud gaming is predicated on the notion that gamers are too dumb to know the difference between ownership and rental. For anyone who does know…

Um........ why?

Its also entirely possible that regulators (particularly those outside the US) will flat out tell Google that they cannot enter the gaming business on account of their monopoly status. This goes double if the hardware requires compatibility with Chrome, since Google’s shenanigans with the Chrome browser has already…

Worse—at least after the OUYA flopped you could still plug the thing in and play games on your OUYA. When this goes, all of your collection on the console goes with it. This is a case where the mantra “stop killing games!” becomes “’always online’ is a cancer, and the only solution is to keep your money in our wallets.…

I know, right? This is why I use DuckDuckGo over Google. Its nothing to do with privacy, and everything to do with the company having actual integrity and objectivity in their search results. Its never about what they think I am interested in, and its certainly not effected by any kind of politics. They show what is…

I think it happens whenever a film or someone associated with the film tries to make a point of highlighting the strength of its female characters or talking about Feminist aspects of the film. They might have good intentions when they say it, but its possibly counterproductive because it does not allow the film to…