Treat it like a new parent— don't offer up that the baby is ugly. "Oh, a baby!" is a nice general thing to say. For a game, perhaps something like "Wow, a game! Pixels too!"

You were (slightly) scammed— I almost missed it myself. At the bottom there is a small option/link to not have to download something. Very sneaky though.

No, radishes scream. That's why you can't get them live in the store and, incidentally, why they're red when you see them in stores— they've been parboiled before hand, turning them red, sort of like what happens with shellfish.

Well, I think we're just going to have to reasonably disagree on some of the aspects of this issue. It's okay though— Just because it's the internet doesn't mean we have to flame each other! Although, in case you insist on it as a proper ending, how about self-immolation: I'm an awful person, I probably have no…

My original point was simply meant to be that if your only criteria for classifying fakes was "I can't define it but I know it when I see it" then you are going to classify lots of people that others, with different views of what is & is not a fake, would be just fine with. E.g., someone plays videogames an average of…

Yep, overturned: It stopped individuals from using their own "I know it when I see it" gut decisions and instead gave three criteria that had to be met (you only cite the one that coincided to your view on this). The third of these criteria, that something lacks any "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific…

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.

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

I'm so confused. First there was cake, then it turns out the whole cake thing was just shattered dreams and broken promises, but now there is this...

Paypal shouldn't have to take on the risk themselves— that's not their business— unless that was part of the merchant agreement in place between them and the Skullgirls folks. That said, what is the risky part here? If the project has been funded and the "donation" period ended, then your money is gone and there's no…

As a society and a race, we need to get past this idea of people being either all good, or all bad, or all of whatever area of the spectrum they're on in between. Some people are real dicks about some things, and saints about others. Gates was ruthless as a business man and corporate leader. He doesn't need to have…

You said, "First, they have to note you move, which takes a moment for the eye to register with the brain, then it takes a moment to adjust, which then takes that 1/5 to 1/7th of a second to do," but that is not correct: "reaction time" is in fact the time it takes for the eye to register with the brain, to adjust,…

Average reaction time is about 1/5 of a second. In professional athletes, this is more like 1/6 or 1/7th of a second. A little googling around on neural synapse speeds and signal processing time from finger to brain comes up with a minimum of about 30ms to perform the act of pulling the trigger. So, a highly…

Average reaction time is about 1/5 of a second. In professional athletes, this is more like 1/6 or 1/7th of a second. A little googling around on neural synapse speeds and signal processing time from finger to brain comes up with a minimum of about 30ms to perform the act of pulling the trigger. So, a highly…

I think you're probably right about a lot of what you say here, but without specifics & concrete examples of the phenomena you mention, it just sounds like a lot of vague generalizations that kinda want to agree with, but can't see any reason why this is the actual situation rather than your own vague impressions of…

Understood! It's been a big topic here in the US for decades. A video like this is likely to get a fair bit of attention in the US whenever it's posted, but I'm not sure that means it's the reason it was posted to begin with. Likely to get hits does not mean it isn't asking a relevant question or making a relevant…

You said, "but hey, easy page views" which is a sort of round about way of implying that they are taking a non-issue and whipping up controversy for page views. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but either way if you hold that view, it is one that transgresses the subjective line of your own thoughts on the morality…

yep, deep in that uncanny valley there