Yeah, he is pretty magnificent at it. If he’d been half as good a president as he is a Trump-mocker, Mexico would be in amazing shape...

I dunno, I think it’d be pretty entertaining to hear his groveling. But I can imagine they can get through calls pretty quickly by not really saying much and letting him think they were in agreement (and then ignoring him).

Boy, there’s a real common theme here.

That’s unfair to 10-year-olds to suggest they’re Trump’s emotional equals, and I’m not even kidding.

Unsurprisingly:

Except that his point is apparently a talking point for “white nationalists” on the web (so of course they left out the significant bit)...

Surely that’s worse, given their own reasoning? People coming over and taking jobs and they don’t even live here!

Yeah, Blizzard seems to be trying hard to erase the existence of Blizzard North who, you know, actually came up with and developed Diablo 1 and 2. Ever since Blizzard shut down the studio (and lost the developers), they keep pretending like it was really Blizzard (South) that was the one behind it all. They like to…

I’m a little dishearted that the words “Blizzard North” appear nowhere here. Diablo wasn’t developed by Blizzard Entertainment, the Irvine studio - it was created by Blizzard North, an SF bay studio. Blizzard South provided cinematics but mostly kept their hands off development, until North was working on D3. They…

“The Diablo team”

Yeah, I wonder what exactly they did to prepare for this. It seems like just making arrangements with carriers wouldn’t be enough - smaller events where many of the attendees are using internet tend to have added infrastructure for the event - in a situation like this, where it’s so many people and they’re all using…

I can’t say I’m surprised. The technology, yet again, wasn’t quite ready, so not enough people took the leap. This slow rise House is hoping for seems unlikely, as developers aren’t going to spend big bucks developing games if there’s no proven market. There needs to be a sufficient mass of both buyers of the…

“Do you want to limit the entire console market to people who would like Game of Thrones?”

“Some people worship Game of Thrones for the exact same thing”

If Niantic are responsible for this event, then it is their responsibility, by definition. You don’t plan an event like this and charge admission without being damn sure that what you’re promising is possible, especially since, as you say, US carriers are infamous for not being able to provide such service. That…

“clearly just poorly chosen wording”

And it’s become clear that if Trump considers you a buddy that he’ll be likely to uncritically accept whatever you tell him, even making official statements based on that, without checking the facts (as the whole Qatar kerfuffle showed). Not only that, anyone with personal access to him can employ a whole range of…

I thought it was a pretty blatant effort to cynically manipulate Trump, since he’s so obviously an idiot who responds well to flattery and we’ve seen how various autocrats have won Trump over and swayed his policies. European leaders are realizing that they need to rein Trump in a bit or there’s going to be…

“However, my theory is that he just doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about (surprise, surprise)! Doesn’t know anything about policy, and worse, has no desire to know.”

“I believe that is the Gerber Life Plan”