Adrenaline. It happens to me in Dark Souls though oddly I'm fine in other competitive games. I think, for me, it's because I know I'd rather not be fighting the invader, they'll probably cheat, and I'll have to start all fucking over though I was sure I was near the fog gate. And it took me half an hour to get where I…

I'm amazed at all the comments that think along the lines of "preorders are bad! Unless it is a physical statue of Game X THEN OMGZ YES PLEASE GIVE ME NOW I WILL SUCKLE SATAN'S TEET FOR THIS SHIT!"

Well, I was given the option as a child. Did I want to be grounded for a week or get a spanking and get it over with? I lined my ass right on up and took it and was out free and clear the next day.

Beating a child is abuse, spanking is more controversial. Right now I put spanking over reactors in the category with comtrail conspiracy and anti-vaxxers.

See the problem here, DerpHapley, is who defines child abuse?

I have absolutely no idea about the severity of the child abuse Peterson committed. So the comments filled with hate may be appropriate.

What's an acceptable alternative, Drew? And what do you do when the alternatives don't work?

Yes, I want one for my daily commute.

I had a pair of these, as well. In fact, they were my first USB pair of headphones. I had to wrangle with Plantronics to get the Windows 8 beta drivers since nothing existed at the time.

Why didn't people see this coming?

Has anyone managed to get USB headphones to work on Windows 8-8.1 without them being recognized as "speakers?"

You may be right! I didn't have the phone, ergo it never affected me.

RTFM, amirite? Them boards are brutal. I'm proficient enough to get Arch up and running smoothly and fleshed out and even then I find crowd to be vicious.

Hey, if I'm going to browse the internet on my phone, I want a screen bigger than 3". And I'm glad that is an option. And in no way do I think tiny phones should stop being produced. It has a big piece of the market and I'm okay with that.

Different circles, I guess. I ran into a lot of Mac snobs in the 90's and I mean jackasses. They were only second to Linux people. ;)

Suggesting I have the perception filter issue would somehow have to suggest I fabricate or make comments up that never happened. I could, if my attention span served me to do so, go into Android comments and pull out the comments as examples. They do exist.

I don't know if the maps were labeled as 'beta' or not, I honestly don't remember. I just recall the shit storm that followed that product implementation.

K, I did. The first paragraph plus the second made it sound like NFC wasn't ready at the time, as if it was technical issues.

Yes, I've done web development, as well. That is a huge Apple community thanks to Adobe. Its Creative Suite worked best on Macs for years. And a lot of people still buy Macs for that reason. And I've seen that reasoning over and over again. What I'm saying is development has come a long way and PCs are just as…

That doesn't necessarily mean intelligence. It's part branding, ecosystem, and tradition.