It was the height of Mad Cow panic at the time.

I don’t understand how Bitcoin will retain any value after the last coin is mined, and there’s no longer any positive incentive for people to participate in verifying the blockchain. The standard platitude “Don’t worry. That won’t happen until 2140; you’ll be dead,” doesn’t give me much comfort. That’s not how people…

It was “North Kentucky” in the Behind the Simpsons episode. That’s not considered canon, though.

There were a lot of other things about Bitcoin that Oliver didn’t touch on: cryptocurrency’s popularity for transactions in illegal goods (e.g. drugs), the CPU-intensive practice of Bitcoin “mining”...

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Apparently, the vast majority of Toys R Us stores are profitable. The problem is that the company is struggling to manage the huge debt it was burdened with after a change in ownership in 2005. The big difference between the US and Canada stores is probably related to our commercial financing laws.

In retrospect, I’m disappointed that Secret of the Ooze played it very safe, creatively. They toned down the violence, as the audience for the Turtles was growing ever-younger at that point. And they kept the scope of it very simple. Rather than follow the original comic’s interstellar origins for the ooze, they gave…

I think you nailed why the movie didn’t catch on: it was only marketed to boys aged 6-12. And then those boys didn’t quite know what to make of it. The Rocketeer was not an especially macho hero; he didn’t spend a whole lot of time punching and shooting bad guys, which is what boys had come to expect from their heroes.

I recently watched a speedrun of the Secret of Mana remake. Of the glitches they used, one or two have already been patched. But there are still some fun glitches that are still in the game. For example, you can duplicate treasure chests by exiting the room while the box-opening animation is still going. This allows…

Here’s hoping that the Tahiti songs from The Real Ghostbusters get a re-release soon. I always loved those.

Sparks released their landmark Li’l Beethoven in 2002. It was a brilliant anti-pop album, heavily built around piano, synthesized strings, and repetitive vocals.

Yeah. A lot of my favorite recordings of the year were in that middle range, like Sam Roberts’ debut EP (“Brother Down”, “Don’t Walk Away Eileen”), and Tragically Hip’s “The Darkest One”,

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As a person, though, I think the sleaziest thing is the industry’s body of labour practices.

As a player, I think the sleaziest thing that I face regularly is the practice of ending a game on a cliffhanger in order to sell the rest of the story as DLC. Dragon Age: Inquisition is the worst offender. I don’t mind DLC codas (like Mass Effect 3: Citadel) but there’s no excuse for a huge, bloated game to only tell…

Instead of wishing directors we disliked have committed horrible crimes, can’t we start wishing that they repent, quit the business, and start devoting themselves to charitable causes?

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Since when has WAYPTW been anything but (delightfully) self-indulgent walls of text?

I’ll go a step further and say that Dragon Age: Inquisition has hardly any interesting quests that don’t involve the main story or your party companions. It’s not like many open-world games (such as Skyrim) where the most interesting quests and characters are entirely optional.

I finished the Secret of Mana remake. As I said elsewhere, it’s a mixed bag. On the plus side, MP now recovers automatically on level-up, so the later dungeons become a lot less tedious. You can cast spells liberally against ordinary foes and still have enough for bosses and crystal switches. Movement is also faster…