*alarm bell sounds intensify*

People keep complaining about the cost of the One X, not seeming to understand that 4K is just going to be expensive for a long while. The jump up in processing power necessary to render 4K compared to 1080 is massive, and as fast as consumer electronics improve and prices go down, there are limits. If you want a 4K…

You want 4K, you gotta pay. That’s just the reality. The bump in resolution requires so much more processing power that it’s just not going to get very cost effective very fast.

If only there were some questions that Deadspin didn’t treat as inherently so obvious that the only positions are between Elite NBA Sophisticates like Barry here and the dullards who think that sometimes these things are complicated.

Please pay for the games that you play and enjoy. I know that institutionally Kotaku is dismissive of concerns about piracy - they make the kind of content that isn’t subject to being pirated - but the industry can’t survive if you don’t. Saying that is not a defense of current intellectual property laws. One way or…

Neither everything nor nothing. https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/06/06/correlation-neither-everything-nor-nothing/

Secondhand smoke itself is barely harmful: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2017/02/secondhand_smoke_isn_t_as_bad_as_we_thought.html

Much like secondhand smoke

That seems... entirely reasonable.

Unfortunately, when Durant first signed the conversation immediately became “if you judge Durant for this you’re a troglodyte” when the whole point was always that the system had created a league with only two legitimate title contenders and that this was a recipe for a bad, boring playoffs. Which is exactly what…

An actually good VR game! Golly!

The idea that artists can only ever make art about people and events from their own ethnic heritage is... exactly what white supremacists used to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement

I like his visual style and want to see him do a good project. I think he’s only ever made one half of a good movie, but I’m rooting for him.

a manifestation of participation trophy culture in video games

Yeah exactly. To put it as succinctly as I can: when you can do anything, nothing feels particularly meaningful.

This whole pointless debate seems premised on the idea that we don’t have the concept of a “percentage.”

Why would you recommend someone like Abramson, who has absolutely no credentials in this area and has peddled the most outlandish and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories?

+1 for being the first commenter to follow instructions.

So asking if we should avoid rushing to judgment and giving this guy a chance to defend himself - that’s impermissible at this point, right?