Politicians are terrible judges of the efficacy of scientific research. It's very common to hear them say incredibly naive things about NSF-funded projects.

Yeah, we don't talk about that. Why would we, when we have so many NSF researchers to pick on?

This looks awesome. I'm definitely considering throwing some money their way.

You know you're a real saxophone player when that's the part of this piece that you find most preposterous.

Governments hand out speeding tickets. Therefore, the two situations aren't really very similar at all.

I've purchased both of their games several times each. And yet I fiercely disagree with you. Odd, that.

There is a "Duplicate Product Code" message. Attached for reference.

Coming up as "not valid" (as opposed to already used/duplicate). Am I being thick, or am I just thick and late? :)

Being uncritical so as to not hurt a company's feelings is not helpful for anyone.

This is very interesting. And I love Neil Gaiman. Double plus good!

I don't think anybody has an issue with reasonable compensation from people who are 100% known to have pirated the work. Please read the article and understand the issues being discussed.

Those guys are jerks.

I'm almost certain that there's no reason you should feel hosed for getting this much gaming for $5.

Thanks for this.

Genuinely curious: does separating these lists according to console add much besides fueling fan-centric worldviews? Does the quality of a game really depend on what hardware it's played on? I can imagine some hardware categories being useful, like:

You thought Skyrim was the best game this year!? You are clearly wrong!

I think I like the 2nd better also! But it's hard to go wrong for $2.49.

Yes.

We're talking about who INVENTED these technologies? That's such a different thing entirely. And I don't know. I haven't looked through the legal or engineering documents. Neither do I have transcripts from either of those companies detailing their plans and motivations on what to bring to market when. All of this…

I'm actually quite confused about your history. Nintendo released the N64 controller in 1996. Sony didn't release the Dual Analog until 1997. The Vectrex did have a "control stick" design of sorts that anticipated the modern controller, but in the history of the design, Nintendo has played a far, far larger part -…