It is ridiculed because it shows that these types of value-laden judgments are very personal and subjective, with lines drawn arbitrarily and in different places for different people. One person's NYPD Blue episode (TV show from the 90's that showed a bare female butt) is just prime time TV while to another it's…

And that is a Supreme Court definition that is routinely ridiculed as the essence of gut & emotion based reasoning rather than sound, rational & legal reasoning on a subject. Even granting your reasoning on the "poser" aspect, in the "Geek" culture it seems as though only women are subjected to this accusation to the…

I use them for convenience— buy the games, sure, but have them all on one cartridge with bonus features too.

Or some people are simply willing to pay a premium to get the app they want, when they want it, rather than waiting months for a sale. XCOM is a great example. I'm sure it will drop to $5, and even $1 at some point, but for a AAA port of a console game that originally cost $60, the iOS price of $20 was fully worth it…

Now I want to wrap some brie in apricot preserves and crisp pastry while I level up my stomach size... mmm.... rpg grind.

Superman Returns would have been a better sell on the allegorical Jesus route... Kal returns— as if from death— to save the world, and in the process is show to be both susceptible to human emotions, love for his son etc., but also clearly beyond mere constraints of humanity.

you cant fool me— those are carrots. I know because I have seen them before. Also, the pixels.

This explains their recent steps away from open source & designs.

On measuring mountains from the core rather than see level: yeah, I kind of see the point there, but its a bit like measuring your manhood from the back of your ass: you might feel a bit more self satisfied doing so, but deep down everyone knows the truth.

No one will ever be as great as Joel Johnson was— R.I.P classic Gizmodo, and long live Gizmodo!

Public Service Announcement: This same youtube user has a bunch of... exotic... shotgun ammo videos, including one featuring silly putty, and another with vienna sausages. Day: wasted.

Even if everyone had a printer in their home, I still wouldn't be too worried about this sort of thing until they are reliable enough that people will fire them from closer than 100 feet away, via string. If you need to worry about having a hand, or losing an eye when the gun fires, I don't think it's going to get…

Printing out something pre-cooked would be quit a bit more complex... the act of applying heat creates many more compounds than might be found in non-cooked foods. Take, for example, coffee beans— roasting the bean results in a tremendous increase in the number of chemical compounds found in the post-roast bean. So,…

I wonder at what point in the trash-2-power efficiency balance that arbitrage markets in trash will become a real thing. How much trash could fit into an oil tanker?

helped the "students claim their silver medal"? What in the unholy hells of future robot/cyborg oppression took the Gold?

1. Great idea! AND, more importantly, you executed it well!

The new skin is nice. The commenting is not better or worse than most comment systems, just different from what came before.

My theory is that, for some reason, the packaging logistics system specified this box size. Possibly there was an indication that the order would be larger, and the human worker assumed other parts of the order were being assembled elsewhere and the larger box would be required there.

No, it isn't. They're just saying that if a user got the app from Play, then Play is how it must be updated. Download it direct from facebook or some other source? Then it can be updated outside of Play. This is them controlling their own App Store experience in a way that does not infringe on a user's ability to…

Did this make anyone else think of Planet of the Apes?