Their family could have been torn apart by another family’s decision to rob a warehouse, in a tragic case of mistaken identity, which makes a pretty strong argument against jailing people who are awaiting trial.

Do I think that’s the case here? No, probably not. But we don’t know, and it does happen distressingly often.

I hopped on board early, after my Win10 update screen sadly bleated “please trust us, we’re free and better than Windows 8.” This was, admittedly, a good argument.

Okay, trivial, but this really annoys me:

I’m from Oklahoma, went to college in Massachusetts. In my first few months there I consciously removed my strong Southern drawl because nobody could understand what I was saying. Later I took a job at a deli, working entirely with townies with strong Boston accents, and I…

Well, we can all agree that Al Gore would have been just as bad a president as George Bush, because neoliberalism.

“Sucks that your 11-year-old got killed in a biking accident, but he knew he needed to wear a helmet, so he caused his own demise.”

“Sucks that your six-year-old drank the antifreeze, but the bottle quite clearly says that it’s poisonous and the child could read, so he caused his own demise.”

“I think even an 8 year old could see how all of these TRAP laws are just a roundabout way of making abortion, itself, illegal, by those who really wish Roe vs. Wade went in the opposite direction, but know that they can’t directly refuse to uphold it.”

Well, there are two things here:

Well, you see, women don’t have the genes to commit sexual assault. That’s something that men have, which is why we’re so good at politics and capitalism.

“There is a very significant difference between getting fired because you offended your boss, and getting fired because you offended an internet lynch mob who complained to corporate HQ.”

This is true! In the first case, you were fired because you insulted your boss, which most managers consider unacceptable…

Come on, HRC! You’re campaigning in New York, which has a good amount of West Indian immigrants. Get some real hot sauce, the kind with Scotch Bonnet peppers. #FeelTheBurn

Nope, it’s because gender identity isn’t covered by hate crime laws in New York (although sexual orientation is). So, by way of jurisdiction, he didn’t commit a hate crime, though he would have had he committed the murder in New Jersey.

“Capitalism doesn’t work when left alone. Which is why we have laws to protect the consumer to regulate the little quirks that can’t fix themselves.”

I will add that people who insist capitalism be “left alone” usually see no problem with things like intellectual property laws that allow Valve to sell certain games…

You say neoliberalism is “nominating liberal justices [Kagan, Sotomayor] when Democrats control the Senate and nominating moderate justices when Republicans control the Senate,” but that just sounds to me like constitutional democracy.

When I was in high school I played absurd amounts of GTA III at my friends house. One day, after a several-hour session, I was walking back to my mom’s house, and a car pulled up near me. Swear to God, my first thought was “if I pull that person out of their car, I can steal it and just drive the rest of the way…

Just like how Bill Clinton nominated notable centrist Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Here’s three:

No, Bill Gates certainly knows about Age of Empires, as it was a big risk for Microsoft Studios, which was then mostly known for Flight Simulator. According to this, he was a reluctant booster of the game:

“MS has the ability to screw everyone. AS Valve did when Steam got popular. As Sony does because they are dominating. Every time we hear how any one of these or other tech giants would come out to screw everyone, but I really never seen it come to pass both because it’s an unreal expectation and because in times where…

It’s not an isolated issue: 17% of Ubisoft’s 2015 revenue was apparently through DLC; remember AC Unity’s $99 bundle? Modern simulators are notorious for horribly overpriced DLC ($20 for an airplane or a train route), Capcom games have locked on-disc content out the wazoo, along with even “sophisticated” games like…

I use mods to the same effect in Skyrim - Frostfall, Realistic Needs and Diseases, etc. - and am really excited about this being in the vanilla game. I like the saving system too, but maybe it would benefit from being able to save-and-quit at any time.

I’m assuming their QA team had some sort of “persistent frame rate issues” bug. I work in QA for professional software, and that’s the kind of bug that might be addressed by a developer but won’t block release if it isn’t fixed. I mean, QA gets paid to find bugs, and it seems like this one was awfully low-hanging…