Yeah, their excuse for him is nonsense on the face of it - the term only has one meaning, and they’re arguing that he didn’t know what it meant, except he obviously does as he used it in context.
Old Shuck
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Least profitable heist ever.
I’d say the cyberpunk dystopia is already here, given that everyone thinks this story is plausible enough to talk about it like it’s real. (It isn’t.) The corporatization of culture and ubiquity of advertising are so complete that this seems like a logical, possible next step. That’s cyberpunk!
I have a feeling this marketing gimmick will just be expensive
PepsiCo recently considered launching an “orbital billboard” in space to promote its campaign “against stereotypes and unjustified prejudices against gamers.”
Oh, this is hilarious. That original quote is pretty funny all by itself, though:
There are a lot of people who derive some sense of self-worth and accomplishment from what they can do in a videogame. If you find an easier path, or don’t see the value in the game the same way they do, that accomplishment is diminished, which is (to them) a personal attack.
Yeah, reading the comments about the game, pre-release, the amount of fantasizing about what would be in it was crazy. I’ve never seen so much projecting of players’ wishes onto a game. It was never going to be what people thought/wanted it to be, because what people expected was impossible and contradictory.
“The problem is that people have trouble separating what is being promised and what is being pondered.”
To be fair, Chicago had things like that police torture squad that operated between ‘72 and ‘91 (and likely beyond, in a less organized capacity), for instance, that were pretty egregious. Not that, sadly, the city was unique in that, either, but it put the Chicago PD into the ranks of the most abusive police forces…
You know, I mean you just KNOW, that he is so fucking impressed with his cleverness that he came up with a catchphrase for his ‘exoneration’ that actually RHYMES!!!
Definitely with herbs and spices (saffron, bay leaves, thyme, fennel, cinnamon, pepper, mastic, honey, etc.) and sometimes fruit (dates, citrus, etc.). When traveling, Romans even carried around their own spice blends to add to wines they were served. Sometimes warmed, but not necessarily. I would say they were like…
Apparently being a pedophile is OK, but consuming drugs (as in not selling them, just consuming them) is a huge crime.
Japan only banned possession of child pornography a few years ago (2014). It was legal (to make it, distribute it) until 1999. Seriously.
I know from experience that Chinese censors don’t like Lovecraftian horrors, and they’re well known to get super-twitchy about references to pre-communist China, which is where this game is set. The two (but especially the second) would easily be more than enough to get an over-zealous censor to burn the lot, even…
Not a failure - they’re apparently only delayed a bit as they find a new printer, but it’s still happening. Their story is actually totally plausible, too. The book’s content hit several sore spots for China, so it’s easy to believe the censors got overheated, so to speak.
Valve lets its employees work on whatever project interest them. I get the impression that work has never fully stopped on HL3, but that no one really had anything sufficiently new and interesting to do with it that got enough people excited to make up a full dev team needed to make the game. Especially when player…
I think it’s partially Duke Nukem Forever syndrome.
Technically I own many of my games now.