David Harbour’s character is Wertz in the first paragraph, but Mertz in the rest of the review.

I’m a middle-aged ‘gamer’ now too (although I indulge seldom enough these days given my sons’ monopolization of the various systems that gatekeepers might contest the title). I grew up playing games like Wizard’s Crown, Roadwar 2000, and yes, Wasteland. I even corresponded with Ken St. Andre as he was developing…

All of these replies castigating Epic for an overly dramatic comparison of Apple’s monopoly to an Orwellian Big Brother seem to catastrophically miss the point- If there’s anyone that criticism should be leveled at, it’s Apple, for making that comparison in the first place with their iconic sledgehammer ad. They…

Which is how one gets the standing to contest these kinds of things. I guess the same logic makes Rosa Parks the ‘antagonist’ in the NAACP’s Montgomery bus boycott. 

That still gives Chris far too much credit. He isn’t really a coder at all any more, and wasn’t really even the primary programmer for Wing Commander. He’s much more Bunky Bartlett than Notch. He could code games back in the 80s, but he was primarily a designer and director even then, and he certainly fancies himself…

BDSGE, Star Citizen ARG, selling JPGs, space serfs... If I didn’t know better, I might think you were a goon or filthy refundian. I’m going to have to carefully watch you for any mention of turning a blue pixel green, the stimpire, or citizens’ obsession with the natural consequences of losing.

I’m not really up on the demographics of porn content creation, but I’ve certainly seen enough Patreon and OnlyFans comments to think that the barrier between content creators and their audiences should be greatly diminished these days. If the ‘big publishers’ want to pay black performers less, is there a means to…

As someone who recently started playing it after a co-worker lured me back into Magic with it, I’m having trouble personally visualizing how well it would work, even on a phablet. For players who are already tremendously well-versed in each of the cards, maybe you could forego the need to be able to readily read card…

Agreed. I’d like to see my legs too. It felt really good in Lone Echo to be able to extend my arms and see my robotic appendages, and doing things like mantling just doesn’t seem like it would feel right without visible limbs.

“Sony was right to be wary of letting its most valuable property get swallowed up by Mickey Mouse’s insatiable maw”

‘its’ is carrying a lot of water here.  

I think general 4X knowledge does still transfer to Planetfall.

Agreed. And it’s a wound that keeps getting re-opened. I haven’t read the latest DC books with the Watchmen characters integrated into them, but from the synopses I’ve read, Geoff Johns just doesn’t seem to ‘get’ Moore’s characters and as frustrating as I find it even at that degree of remove (reading summaries that…

I was a couple years out of college and wasn’t fond of it either, but I recognized even at the time that it was going to be a sort of cultural touchstone for horror fans, largely because of the SciFi (not yet SyFy) lead-in show and the sort of viral presence at the time. It was novel. I’m not really a horror movie…

M Night Shyamalan is a decent parallel, for those of us who didn’t think Chappie and Elysium were awful.

Dumb? They are one of the most common service dog breeds and in the top 5 for dog breed intelligence. That’s a high IQ dog breed. Joe Biden is more like an English Sheepdog.

How else is our government supposed to sate its billion-dollar-a-week kill-brown-people habit?

There’s a good bit of open road between ‘compliance’ and ‘wrestling away an officer’s taser and using it on him’ though, and I worry it can attenuate the infuriating and clear evidence that ‘non compliance’ results in disproportionately lethal results for minorities when cases like this are lumped in with them. When I…

They could be three times as competent as Ramsay’s 20 good men!

Are you kidding me? Are you really credulous enough to buy the excuse that it was a coincidence that the Power Plants all had a peeled lower left corner, the Mines had a peeled upper right corner, and the Towers all had a nail indentation in the lower left?

CW-1: So what I,,, told Moss already and I wanted to make sure that you knew as well if they happened to call you is that nothing has been said about the girls, your donations helping the girls get into USC to do-
Loughlin: Okay
CW-1: -crew even though they didn’t do crew. So nothing like that has been ever mentioned.
Lou…