Windows ME irrecoverably BSOD'd within 15 minutes of being installed. The only thing I had done was install Max Payne, run it once and play for 5 min.

Point 1 and 2 have valid resolutions that just require some creativity. Point 3 is perfectly valid, but it's sad that you have to avoid a place you frequent just because of one detail like this.

I'm not specifically blaming them. I'm just pointing out there's a perfectly simple way to prevent something that is not uncommon, and I am asking them out of courtesy.

I'd like to request that you don't post the winner of the tournament in the first paragraph, since that will spoil it for everybody that doesn't get to watch it live.

TERA:

As long as the winner gets a free beer it should be balanced xD

You misunderstand. It's not about not wanting to see a message in a movie, it's about not wanting the person making the movie to be outspoken about his opinion because it ruins the experience for them.

I read that quote and thought it was entitlement at its best. It could be two things, really. Either they don't want to be confronted with the political opinions of somebody who's work they admire (which is selfish), or they want to view the political implications of the movie in their own light. Either way, it's…

My guess is people are wowed by new graphics in such a way that they believe they've entered the uncanny valley, or perhaps moved just beyond it. A few years later our perception of graphics has changed and we're used to what we've seen. Looking back at old graphics technology never really comes across as "uncanny",…

Dexter reminded me of myself when I started watching it. Throughout the seasons he's taken stances I don't identify with, but on the whole aside from the killing people I identify a great deal with Dexter. I usually don't identify with characters much or at all.

I play primarily on PC, and rarely walk into a store, so I'd be looking for bad games in the digital sphere I guess. I do have a 360 lying around I rarely use, so I could try that as well.

Cut the Rope was actually made by a small independent studio called Zeptolab.

I'm totally going to try this. I wonder which bad game to go for though, and where to find the really bad ones. Perhaps metacritic can tell me which bad games in a genre were recently released. What source do you use to select your "bad game"?

Funny thing is there are plenty of iOS consumers that will still blame the developer for a bug they caused, and it hurts sales immensely if you get a bunch of 1-star ratings because of it, so you basically have to fix it.

We had a critical bug with jailbroken devices when we released a game on iOS last year, which prevented jailbroken users from saving their games. Got a very serious rating burn from that, but we hotfixed asap. I mean, even if they are jailbroken devices, they're still paying customers.

It seems that the first few episodes would have been better served as flashback episodes interspersed throughout the “Battle of Trost” arc like how the Mikasa origin episode was used. Instead, by putting these episodes at the beginning, it sets a false pace for the viewers and makes the major arc seem even longer and…

I'm probably not the only one thinking of this :P

If the next generation of consoles continues the trend of being longer than the current generation of consoles, that might actually be true.

They are now. The basic iOS/Android versions were recently made free (or will be free)

Some people just like to check in when they've landed, letting people know they've arrived safely and whatnot. It's a matter of habit and social convention more than efficiency I think.