It’s kind of crazy how close we are to finally crossing through the uncanny valley. Of course, the real test is “in motion”, but I’m almost scared of what happens after that. When CG looks and moves realistically, you no longer get to believe your eyes! :D

Maybe they’ll take a few minutes to make the final boss actually challenging? My wife went and decided to “practice” fight him the minute he opened, even though she generally plays in a manner that underlevels content (she tends to want to move the story, and doesn’t care for too much grinding). She literally one-shot…

I would like to note, for the record, that when I came to this article in support of gay marriage... it had exactly 666 replies. :D

It probably does not help that that word “XBox” sounds like a mumbly mouthful when spoken by someone with a Japanese accent. The Playstation name can be pronounced pretty faithfully and rolls much better off the tongue. When it comes to branding, things like that matter a great deal. Would you take a console seriously…

I play on a huge PvP US realm (Mal’ganis), and there is no real World PvP. It’s basically a bunch of 100s hanging out in leveling areas trying to goad the other factions 100s into fighting them by killing people trying to level. And it works only a tiny fraction of a fraction of a time, so instead they just stay…

I am a mildly wealthy white person who would literally throw himself in traffic before voting GOP.

Um, yes, some of us are. Well, not outright angry, but tired of the shitshow of dumping new secret people into armors and calling that a good story. I read comics because I care about the people INSIDE the costume, not because Shiny Metal Armor IV deploys Laser Gun at enemy and then quips. And the fact that it is so…

Well sure. Detroit is basically the Thunderdome at this point.

Possibly it's because:

So you do not agree that sports teams, who are paid to play professionally, should be required to refrain from cheating of any sort? You are arguing that cheating IS okay? Or you're arguing that cheating is wrong but punishing it is also wrong? Or that some cheating is better than other, because hey, guys, lighten…

"Other crimes" are NOT professional sporting events in which we pay the participants handsomely for their skill level. You cannot equate 'crime' to 'cheating'. For a sports team, you either win by playing fairly, or you do not. It is binary in that regard, and teams which do the latter to any degree should a) lose a…

They actually had an OFFICIAL cosplay person there playing as this character. A person who was NOT Rachel Day, who is someone with an extensive history of cosplay. So I think there is a strong possibility that she could have simply chosen to cosplay this character herself.

Technically speaking, as a robot, it seems more likely that he has muscle memory of the exact placement of each mark, and can simply calculate the proper location of the next mark. He doesn't have to see it any more than a robot in a factory has to have eyes to do precision machining work.

"Thundercloud subssss...thundeeerrclooooudd."

Also, if you happen to live in Austin, where Thundercloud makes its home, you should know this one...

"Call 459 22 22..."

How can you tell if a person is a vegan?

Oh, oh, I'll answer this one!

Despite being out only a few years, I would like to note that Notch was already very rich from Minecraft. It was documented that he brought in $101M in personal income in 2012. So indeed, he has made millions on Minecraft, even before the sale to Microsoft, which took him from multimillionaire to billionaire. He was…

Great, there goes my career in Abortomancy.

Honestly, it's because of the way corporations are treated. Companies will ignore the problem, bury the issues in a mountain of inscrutable computer garbage, and when called on it, are allowed to simply point at the individuals and claim that it was the work of singular bad actors, and not the company itself. Even if…