I would think that he might have avoided capture of any sort by ditching the chopsticks. The more traditional bump-distraction & pickpocket would be harder to catch on tape, looking much more natural.

I really don't enjoy this new headline trend of "X <insert adjective> things for whatever" Why not? Because it smacks of the SEO nonsense/fluff farm writing for spammy sites and "1 crazy secret trick for losing weight" ads.

What does it say about me that I could not keep by xbox working after multiple replacements, and ultimately got rid of it when it again stopped working and was no longer covered under warranty?

While I can't explain Amazon not selling much of the hardware directly, the Ad recommendations *might* be accidental, though it would be quite a coincidence, and betray a bit about shopping habits that are slightly embarrassing for Nintendo: A lot of this stuff is automated by Amazon based on shipping habits and…

Hey, have some respect! The man is literally a living god.

My impression of gawker comment systems, as a reader of multiple gawkers sites preceding any comment system, is that there has been very little overall improvement in each iteration: Each new version is just awkward in a different way. I'm not saying they're much worse— or really any worse— than other comment systems,…

Buttons: There are too few on that controller. Each successive console generation has not just done a "+1" to the naming scheme (ps1, ps2, ps3, etc) but extended the promise of more buttons! I demand at least 1 more button, preferably an even half-dozen, and maybe a mounted 20-sided die I roll and have the system…

Driver issues for video cards are still a factor... I have had to track down beta drivers and fiddle with customizing inf files when the appropriate official driver was not available, all to fix game-breaking issues, all within the previous 6 months or so.

Even aside from the technical problems, there is still the philosophical issue of the copy problem: Given the ability to resurrect from backup or some such, there's no reason why you would need to wait until you're dead for the backup to be instantiated. Then there are two of you. Clearly you, the original, is not…

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.

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…

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.

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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Data point 1 does not seem fully relevant given that this has long been the case, so it does not really point to a decline in console gaming dominance. Mobile devices are also often sold under cost, subsidized by future anticipated revenue.

Agreed... 9.99 for an rental is a bit steep, especially a 48-hour rental. If they think $10 is too cheap to let me keep it, charge a little more: 12.99 or 14.99 isn't unreasonable for a purchase, but 9.99 is too much for a rental, at least by most but the die-hard JDATE fans and such.

Facebook doesn't make you request permission, or have an option for that, so I guess facebook privacy isn't compatible with basic human decency. Or Randi has a piss poor justification for here outrage.

Yeah, this is the same guy who tried to lawsuit-bully a competitor out of business http://boingboing.net/2010/09/24/buckyballs-magnet-ma.html I think the ban here is over-reaching nanny-state stuff, but it does make me feel better about it knowing that the guy behind the product was an opportunistic attempted…