It's called Poe's Law. [rationalwiki.org]'s_Law

That didn't seem bad enough to get banned over. So, I'm guessing that that was an editor's choice award. :P

It is a product you can buy, it's called a Real Doll. :)

Thank you, Odin. That was the point that I was making. I probably should have expanded on it. You can, of course, Role-Play without any rule sets, whatsoever. That's called improv. But, D&D is within a theme and a specific rule set. 4th Ed. narrowed the game's definitions on what can and can't be done, thereby…

Also, if they're truly powerful, make them retire the characters, and create new ones in the world now run by the old ones.

If you like 4th edition, then take up playing CCG games, because that's what it is. Except, I think that there may be more room for Role-play in a straight CCG game than in 4th edition.

From looking at their site, it looks like the answer is nostalgia. They've been rereleasing a bunch of their old titles on different platforms (Wiiware, Apps, Steam, etc). They're limping, but they're still moving forward. Sad, since I loved their games growing up. Battle Chess, Fallout, Freespace, all good games.

Yeah, if you play on the PC and create or join a custom server.

I thought that the Trail of Tears was the greatest tragedy to happen on American Soil?

Gary Oldman's one of my all time favorite actors. The first movie that he got me with was "State of Grace" (back when Robin Wright was smoking hot). :)

John McCain was tortured for a few years in Vietnam, and he's still very persnickety. :)

You don't have to keep her as a slave. That's the whole point, it's a choice. Everything is a choice.

Sorry to see you go, man. Of all the comings and goings, I tie you and this site together in my mind. Without you here, it's a different, emptier place. Also, this seemed very abrupt, was it your choice, or Gawkers?

Actually, Da Vinci never did, and the concept of royalties didn't exist back then. I suppose, if you consider businesses as people, then yes, it could be considered disrespectful, but I side with Neil Gaiman on this particular issue (always have, and always will):

You mean like the Mona Lisa that continues to draw tourism to the Louvre year after year, and those same tourists buy silk screens and books that have reproduction of that picture on it? In fact, reproductions of that painting are here on the interwebs for free. You could download reproductions of that piece of art,…

We are the internet, man. I hope that you get your controllers, I really do. But, in the meantime, we'll be feasting on the corpse of Paul's career. :)

He has no superiors, he's the CEO. I understand that you feel we of the internet should be more sympathetic to his plight, but I disagree. I think of it much like someone that tailgates. Eventually, they're going to try and speed around me, and I'm going to look at them. Why am I going to look at them? Because I want…

Linkedin confirms:

I don't think that you caught it, but this is the SEO of the company. This is the president, so to speak. Attacking him is attacking his company.

After reading through these, I realized something. The next time I hear about a serial killer, I'm going to need to see the twitter feed of his/her victims before I'll be able to evince sympathy for the victims / victims' families.