Is there a reason why "waiter" couldn't be gender-neutral too?

I never touched the MP. They'll measure the success of MP by the numbers playing it online, not by unit sales. If I refused every purchase with MP I don't want or use, I'd have missed out on superb SP titles hundreds of times.

The sky hook was great, and so were the tears. The vigors weren't new, but they were great too. These were the first mechanics that felt new to me in an FPS for a long time. It seems they announced too much about that game way too early, since it seems people were already over-familiar with some really quite amazing…

Yep, it's the same as a criminal saying that because I am a criminal, and so is my dad, and my sister, and most people I've ever known. In fact, scratch that: if you look beyond drugs, probably every person I know is a criminal, and they all justify their transgressions in some way or other because law and morality…

A lot of us wouldn't agree it's wrong to take drugs. I think it's wrong to buy coke, given the global implications of that trade, but I don't think it's implicitly wrong to use drugs: weed, acid and mushrooms are particularly nice. Her children are paid to appear on her TV show - and what? They're teenagers, and they…

Ah! Well, I can see how it could seem like she's on trial, since there's only about 10% reported about her ex-employees than there is about her ex-husband and herself.

What do you mean? She is not on trial - she is a witness. Her ex-husband is trying to twist this into a trial of Ms. Lawson in the court of public opinion, but don't fall for it.

The reason people think the aftermath looks bad is that the set-up is utter shite. Second to that, the premise makes no sense; what, they were just going to smash boxes until the guy's PS4 was fucked? What's the point of that? And now, what's the point of this?

When you sign your music, you make one contract for the release of the recordings (them and the label) and one for publishing (them and the publisher). Beastie Boys share ownership of this publishing with the publishing company once that contract is signed, but they have assigned stewardship of the publishing rights…

I'm occasionally looking at the Start Screen and thinking, "Why do I use the desktop view so much, again?" A lot of the time, I could happily use the Metro interface for most tasks, since it's only big icons, after all.

Yeah, but it's not just American comedians! The guy is a gift. I feel kind of bad for laughing though, since it's taking the edge off just how horrible the guy is. There could easily be some kind of unintended consequence where Rob Ford sticks to the windshield just long enough to bake on forever, like Sarah Palin.

Ha, yeah, sorry. I mixed you up with the person I was replying to earlier today. I quickly read their message in my drop-down notifications, clicked to reply, and then your next comment kind of connected with what they were saying before and I did the same thing! Oops. So I thought, "Okay, if you're backing off that,…

Well, obviously I know why a lot of people would fall short of calling it a computer, and that's where I disagree with this documentary's presenter when he says it's a distant ancestor of computers. I think he's being too timid, but yeah, I get your (and his) position on this.

Oh, so much I could say. But basically, you're too stupid to understand a really fucking simple joke, so there's no point.

"Derek" is a bit odd, in my view. It's a show that he made because he got painted into a corner on Twitter, and it really felt like it to me as well: a real-life case of a man's mouth writing cheques his ass... well, can cash. It also needed to rehabilitate him as a good guy after than incident, which it does far too…

I didn't see this episode you're talking about - I read a description. I did see the interview with the chink joke, which was very definitely a joke against the kind of person who is racist but due to their sheer level of privilege, doesn't think they are. There is nothing for an actual racist to enjoy in that joke,…

Okay, so you didn't watch this? He talks about it being a fraud, and how it was done. The more important point, that I've never heard anywhere else, is that he points out that the mechanical parts of The Turk inspired the first automatic looms. That's what makes this film so good - it's about class, and traces the…

You're not aware of the debacle when she called Azaelia Banks a "charcoal-skinned bitch"? A Twitter feud, so it was easy to miss! She did apologise later.

I know she's used racial slurs in the course of making jokes at the expense of racists, which I don't think is the same as actually using racial slurs, but when has she worn blackface?

Definitely. That's what "The Writer" model is all about - you could program it to write any message, and it could draw. I would love to know more about how they created the cams to draw that dog. I wonder if there might be some even more astonishing secret we're not being told. Maybe it was exactly what you'd assume…