From what I have read about the management style of Dyack vs. Nintendo, they game was great despite Dyack, not because of him— Nintendo kept them on a short leash and didn't buy the BS he was selling.

Don't forget the 'tussin:

Maybe there are diminishing returns for the same type of inflicted pain? I'm guessing the full movie will address that @PLOTPOINT though

So it's just the story of a single company that anyone using Google during 2008/9 probably remembers

Wrong again Gizmodo! Twelve people sharing "a" pizza? Not unless Jesus was there to duplicate his loaves & fishes miracle. Of course, this abuse of indefinite articles is only what I have come to expect from the decadent decline of the Gawker media empire! ;)

"best position in years" isn't saying much. I have followed California budget news, and the editorials & opinions I have come across on this state that while better, raising the sales tax has simply taken the state from near bankruptcy to a very precarious position that will continue to improve only if there are no…

Having it loaded with cargo in the info-graphic is a little misleading. It's still the biggest without the cargo, which is all the more reason to make it an Apples-to-Apples comparison of the boat vs. other boats.

"The more powerful our weapons get, the more peaceful the world becomes." Even if true, it comes at an extreme cost in a variety of ways. First is that if/when large scale war ever breaks out with these ever more powerful weapons, the results will be ever more catastrophic. Second is the cost, with trillions of…

I don't understand this... the content & platforms that MS has should be their major strategic advantage, leveraged to help mitigate their underdog status in the tablet world. Instead of doing so, instead of bringing over a back catalog filled with nearly a decade's worth of excellent games, there are a bare handful.…

Bring back letters of Marque & Reprisal!

First I saw "Avatar" and thought you were making an Ultima reference, and that made me happy. Then I saw "Pandora" and realized you means the movie and that made me sad :(

But that's not who they tested this on... if the average person lost half of their excess weight, or 45 lbs, then the average person in the trials was 90 lbs overweight. That is by no means too much to be able to physically manage to exercise.

I disagree in a variety of ways... first, that getting someone's back up deliberately is an effective strategy in persuasion. Perhaps in a classroom where the context is known and frequently the point of discussion is to challenge assumptions, but it a more public context, especially on the internet, I have never seen…

The real shame of it is that by the time the robot finishes scrubbing the rest of the planet it's just going to be dirty all over again. Very poor planning on NASA's part to send a single cleaning bot to do the job of billions.

Why say "privileged" identities? That is such a loaded term, replete with condescension. (I don't get the sense that you meant it that way though) You can simply say "maginalized" and "not marginalized" and avoid getting someone's back up prematurely.

Spec-wise, it seems roughly on par with the current low-end alienware laptop: http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-m14x-r2/pd.aspx and about the same $999 starting price. So, the advantage is that it's more portable, but being aimed at the same core-gaming consumer it seems likely that such a consumer will prefer/need a…

I second this completely. Slitherine games have some along these lines.

Hello may participants in this thread: You are conflating action/shooter games that take place in a the context of war (CoD, Modern Warfare) with a wargame, which is a bit more obscure and meant in the grognardian sense of the term. (see http://www.armchairgeneral.com/ or http://www.wargamer.com/ ) You will rarely if…

Matrix games is set to complete a Modern Wars expansion of the John Tiller's Campaign series, with Jason Pethos, a primary dev on the project, citing sometime around June as a possible release. (The current JTCS compilation from them is definitely a MUST for wargamers though)

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