Spotify’s free tier on mobile is pretty awful. You’re limited to about 150 tracks on a few playlists it auto-generates based on your play history. You can also skip very few times. Premium is great, you can listen to whatever you want, skip all you want and download playlists and albums for offline listening. I like Sp…

I was taking my mom to a doctor’s appointment one day and there was a freaking black bear sitting in the middle of the inside lane on the eastbound side of the interstate. The area where it happened has woods around it, but they’re broken up by development on both sides, so there’s no clear way for the bear to have rea…

That’s why everyone needs to unionize, not just parts of the game companies. If the company tries to fire all the marketing and PR people in retaliation for unionizing, they’re going to think twice about those plans when all the developers say they’ll go on strike if they do so.

You’re correct, but the problem is opponents of unionization use that as an argument against unions. It’s a straw man argument, but copious amounts of people have fallen for it and view unions as the anti-christ.

That whole paragraph where he says it’s not like like flipping a switch is full of so many hedging and twists that it’s hard to tell if he actually said anything of substance. I think we can chalk that one up to being grade A bullshit and nothing else.

Were you trying to listen on the mobile app? It has really strict limits for free users, you can’t even listen to every track, only about 750 of them on 15 personalized playlists it generates based off your listening history. Desktop app and browser should be better, but if you were on mobile that may explain the 10…

I still want an HD re-release of Xenosaga. While playing it in an emulator can make all the in-engine cut-scenes look pretty good, the pre-rendered stuff looks like it was rendered on a psychotic potato in comparison. HD versions of all those pre-rendered scenes alone would be worth the price. I’d actually like to see…

I’ve read enough of his bullshit comments that I’m pretty sure that’s actually Sketchek commenting. If not, this person’s learned exactly as much from the stunt as Sketchek did: Nothing.

Not supporting piracy, but that’s two very different kind of pirates saying those things, so it’s not actually confusing. Many people who pirate don’t have the money or ability to buy the game, so there’s no financial loss to the developer or publisher, no matter how much they may feel like there is. Those are the…

I don’t blame him for being upset, but I do blame him for opening his mouth and saying something he shouldn’t have. The anger directed towards his studio will pass, or at least tone down over time. All this did was stock the fires and give the anger a second wind. Plus talking off the record in such a way is a great…

Hopefully it’s a vast desert, and he’s stuck being single for the rest of his life.

It’s also regional, you don’t hear guys used very much in my area, in large part because y’all gets used. You can’t assume that what works in your area works even in your entire state, much less the entire country or world. Language evolves over time, but it doesn’t uniformly evolve. One good example actually relates t…

Oh I can imagine that, let me see:

This concept is hard for a lot of people to understand, because we grew up using gendered terms all the time. But yes, guys is gendered and to someone who’s not a normal binary gender (born male or born female), it can be upsetting and scary. If you’re trans, gender-queer, homosexual, etc., you’ve almost certainly…

I think you’re conflating two different issues. People haven’t been gambling on Steam levels, but there have been a couple of people (only like three or four so far) who have made waves by deciding to spend thousands of dollars on sale cards to become the player with the highest Steam level. There’s no aspect of…

You don’t need to own the game to craft the badges, so it’s not a market of 350 people, but however many total accounts are on Steam.

It makes sense now, thanks. The inside is in really good condition, with almost no wear on the seats/carpet beyond the front ones. It was bought new by my stepdad’s mother, who at some point decided to give it to us as long as we paid off the rest of the loan. It’s probably never had a child inside it, ever, and we mai…

It could also be what I’m buying and not buying, I don’t buy fresh vegetables for example, which can throw off the scales. (I can no longer cook, it hurts me too much to stand long enough to do so.) The current generation machines Wal-mart is using seem to work significantly better than the past ones did, although I…

We own a 2007 Chrysler Town & Country minivan of all things that the dealer just adores for some reason. It’s a freaking minivan with over 100,000 miles on it, and while it does its job well, we have no clue why they keep offering to buy it. They aren’t trying to sell us a new one in the process, they just want to buy…

I’d have described it as roll-your-own voice-mail, before voice-mail was common. If they didn’t understand it then, they’re hopeless.