“AI leaders afflicted with the dreaded spelling bee bug obsess over things like religion, sometimes to their own detriment, because they have no default values for other important qualities.”

I am, somehow, not shocked that someone tried to work out the length of Weegee’s flaccid Weewee.

I’m envisioning a game mode where say a large group of players boards some kinda troop transport, then for some reason, they all have to bail out... once they get on land, they find out the only way to survive is to scrounge for supplies and kill or be killed. On top of that, the shield dome they are within is slowly…

It’s subtle, but he kills the guy who threw the flash grenade the instant the flash blinded him, with a single pistol shot. You can only tell in the video by the kill notification in the top right of the screen.

Anime is just part of our world at this point. Maybe it’s time to stop acting surprised that people like it.

You have to shoot your flare as soon as you start the quest. If it’s been past 10 min, people aren’t eager to join for lesser rewards. Depending on the time of day or the monster I’m hunting, I’ll have a full team in a minute, or still end up soloing since no one responds.

I can very easily understand the White House’s disgust with those gaming clips.

Eh, I haven’t brought myself to finish Dark Moon yet. The leaving and coming back to stages things kinda killed it for me. Made it feel repetitive and tedious, even if the stages change a little each time.

They were just pullin for their team.

I got carried away with the time traveling robots again! Thanks for the heads up.

To me the people who throw out SJW so freely are ironically SJW’s themselves in there own way. Just fighting for the opposite cause, it’s kinda hilarious that they can’t articulate that.

I’m fairly liberal, I’m still anti-SJW. To me the term means “a clueless white, upper-class liberal the tries to tell people what they ought to be offended about, even if the person they’re telling should know better than the SJW does.”

SJWs are the ones that rail against Speedy Gonzales as “racist” until actual…

I think you raise a very good point, and I would add that a hyper-proprietary attitude towards “copyright” is a VERY modern thing. The fact modern copyright laws would make it impossible for Shakespeare to write his folios is a condemnation not of Shakespeare, but of the modern view of intellectual “property” and the…

And as someone who have studied history at university, I must say that it is a bit concerning that on the internet an interest in history and far right conservative ideas more and more often goes hand in hand.

I’m a huuuge fan of history and historical games, and I’ve been dealing with this same shit since I was a teenager playing D&D and historical tabletop wargames in the 90s. The historical gaming community has always been filled with war-fetishists and Nazi-apologists who have a selective vision of history. The kinds of…

Part of it is this tendency in a lot of conservative movements (sometimes it happens in progressive movements as well but conservatism is implicitly backwards-looking) to idealize a fictional version of a given time in history. In the case of white racism you’re talking about people who are looking for European…

Y’know what? Thanks for taking the time to break things down to the level you did; there’s a tendency in current social discourse to immediately take the most emotionally-reflexive and intellectually simple reaction to any situation, and I really appreciate that you slowed down and broke this situation into its…

Dude threatened a school shooting over people talking about school shootings, according to the article.

That’s not “he was stressed, and needed to release stress.”

That’s, “he issued a threat, got caught, and now he says it was all for ‘the lulz.’” It’s cowardly, and it bespeaks youthful foolishness, which he shouldn’t…

Eh. There’s the possibility that violent entertainment (of any kind) could have a contributory effect on the mind of a person who is already dealing with difficulty distinguishing reality from fantasy—but overall, the idea that violent entertainment equates to violent action is absolutely ludicrous (seriously, if that…

It’s not a problem when downloading 36GB of data for a half hour demo works with your internet. If you live in a country with large swaths of quota-ed third world corporate internet like the US it can definitely be a problem for the customer.