It actually happens all the time with traffic accidents. They have rules of thumb they go by to assign fault, and only go against them when there’s hard evidence to the contrary (eg. when one car rear-ends another, they assume the in the rear is at fault unless it can be proven the one in front was doing something…

Laws vary slightly from place to place, but the general rule is that you can only enter on a yellow if, when it turns yellow, you can’t come to a controlled stop before the intersection. If you could have stopped but didn’t, then it is running a yellow (though it’s possible certain regions will have slightly differing…

The legality isn’t in limbo: It’s still illegal (but perhaps it shouldn’t be). But if none of the companies here care enough to make easy money by licensing it out, none of them are going to care enough about lost sales due to piracy to go after individuals who pirate it.

So wait, you said out loud something along the lines of “No don’t, that’s too hot,” and the translator decided that because the source of this statement was an unimportant person (insert eyeroll here) the warning about something being dangerously hot was therefore also unimportant? Do unimportant where they come from…

A fixed but extremely large number of outcomes. We’re talking about a 5.51 second run, which at 30 fps is 165 frames long (not even counting the portion before the timer starts). Even a 1-button game of that length has 2^165 different possible outcomes (roughly 10^50, or…

Let’s not forget about the Trance system, either. That needed a tweak where it could be triggered on demand (and perhaps balanced around this). The story could also use a couple tweaks - Freya fades from relevance after the first disk; it feels like her planned story was cut. And there needed to be some sort of…

In the current US system with underfunded public defenders, habitual overcharging to scare people into settling, and juries predisposed to a just-world fallacy to think that (just like you seem to) anyone arrested must be guilty... anyone who somehow manages to get a “not guilty” verdict is probably not only actually…

I honestly hope she doesn’t go to jail for this, for the sake of her children. Yes, this was ridiculously stupid, but she was hounded into it by her now-deceased boyfriend, and there was no indication she would have done something like this otherwise. And after this has happened, I don’t think she poses a risk to…

Problem is, they’re eager enough to do something anyway. This means that instead of deportation of undocumented immigrants only, they’ll also deport anyone who commits the crime of looking Mexican and not being able to prove they’re legal residents.

The Brexit negotiations are at the point where if May took John Oliver up on his suggestion to appoint Lord Buckethead* as chief Brexit negotiator, it would actually make the UK look like less of a laughing stock, as at least then we’d be in on the joke.

It’s also sexist as hell. A woman was arrested for making kayaks out of giant 3D printings of her vulva for art, and this was even held up as constitutional in the courts. Meanwhile, the city of Nagaoka puts on an annual festival featuring a giant pink penis.

Okay, moral dilemma here. I vote in Texas, so my senators are Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. Cornyn’s establishment to the core, so there’s basically no way he’s not voting for this bill. Cruz, however, might refuse to vote for it because it doesn’t go far enough, doing what I see as the right thing for the wrong reasons.

Just be careful. The last person who tried that flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami.

That might not have existed, but no reason we can’t start it here.

From episodes 5 and 6, it really sounds like Jason’s been working himself to the bone at E3. I hope he’ll get some much needed rest now that it’s over!

On the flip side, the fact that they couldn’t come to a verdict either way means that there was at least one person on the jury (likely more) who wasn’t willing to back down from a guilty verdict, so it’s not the whole jury to blame here. And to be honest, I was expecting to be disappointed by an acquittal, so I’ll…

Nintendo did do something like that actually, with Miiverse stamps that were unlocked through in-game actions.

It’s because people want the built-in fanbase that comes with a franchise. When you make an independent game, awesome ones usually rise to the top, but there are so many out there today that simply good ones get forgotten and overlooked. Appealing to a built-in fanbase is an easy way to get people to play your game…

Nope. It does have some easter eggs hidden in the source, or events that are a lot easier to access by hacking into save files and modifying some values, but the True/Best ending is easily obtainable through normal play.

A couple weeks ago, they sent out a survey asking us questions like what characters we’d like to see more of (Samus was on the list) and what games series we’d like more of (Metroid was not on the list). I assumed this meant they’d completely given up on the franchise, but were still planning to keep Samus around in Sm…