This is dumb. This is a non-thing. Approximately zero AMC/Regal theaters will tell you not to text. I was a shift leader at one of the largest SoCal Regal theaters for several years. Not once did we tell a customer to stop texting. If your phone is very very bright and distracting, I will tell you to lower the…

Is there any point to bodyweight exercises for building muscle? I don’t have easy access to a gym and I’m one of those very tall, very thin guys (6'5", 155~ lbs) and I have a really hard time gaining weight. The one time I tried working it out with a trainer, they said I’d need to eat something like 3300 calories a…

They mentioned the return of Shadow Price to the loot pool. I’m hoping for a lucky Shadow Price roll similar to y1 shadow price.

I’ve worked for both Gap and the Children’s Place retail stores in the Los Angeles area and the management at both companies overwhelmingly targeted/attempted to train employees to view black/brown customers as shoplifting threats.

Gap also had an awesome dress code “policy”. Since they can’t force you to buy their…

I think there’s a push to ‘legitimize’ a lot of brand twitter accounts because the ‘real’ ones are generally well-received.

It’s probably Snoke kneeling before the Emperor, or an Inquisitor kneeling before Snoke or something.

Water that I can’t see through or water that is deep enough where I can’t see the bottom are like my top irrational fears.

I really like this. My greatest lament about Warcraft is the way Blizzard departed from the WC1 and WC2 designs for orcs and trolls.

Darker Than Black played on some similar themes.

The Collector has appeared about six times in a row now for me. It’s making me not want to play anymore because I have to bring a team that can kill him every time.

I love these, especially the Jupiter Ascending stuff. If that film was anything, it was beautiful from a visual standpoint.

A quick google shows a pretty in-depth analysis positing the initial volume of fire at 2700~ hits per minute and 2800~ fatalities a minute, with the number declining progressively after that. That still makes for considerable damage and 60,000+ dead south koreans.

‘Zerg rush’ is not an effective tactic when a single plane can drop enough non-nuclear ordinance to vaporize several thousand people. The primary threat to Seoul would be the fact that it is well within range of a very big number of very big guns.

I think any plans for a PC release were likely scrapped when the road got bumpy. I imagine they want/wanted a PC release for Destiny 2, but if they’re delaying the game, that might slide off too.

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” — Western Union memo

I think the idea that VR/AR are not social experiences is a flawed one. Look at HoloLens demos, or Facebook plans for Rift followups. I’m personally excited for the gaming possibilities, but the social/professional applications are why there is so much money being poured into this.

Consider sitting down on your couch,…

This would be a lot more listenable if it didn’t sound like someone was letting their kid play with the audio panning. Like holy shit. Why does it keep panning from left to right and then back to left and then back to right?

While you’re probably right about this year’s E3 being inundated with VR/AR demos, consider the insane amounts of money companies like Google and Microsoft are spending to put out a virtual/augmented reality product.

You’re being the guy who said nobody would use a home computer, or nobody would invest in color TV, or…

My assumption was:

The Republic - Lame galactic United Nations, disbanded their military except a small token force, and left planetary defense to individual planets

The First Order - Imperial successor state assuming control of Outer Rim worlds that are largely ignored by the Republic

Speaking purely from a business standpoint, it probably WOULD be profitable for Spotify (or anyone) to open one or two brick and mortar record stores in places like Portland or Austin while simultaneously investing in new record pressing infrastructure. If I recall, there aren’t enough factories to meet the current…