Well, in light of all the recent issues at G/O Media - websites being shuttered, the loss of three editors-in-chief in as many months, huge amounts of negative press from mainstream news outlets and presidential candidates, a mass exodus of writers and other staffers, and a major partner pulling out of a seven-figure…

Thanks for the tip! I think I’m just interested in the actual physical books, though. As a long-time pirate, I’ve come to appreciate that some things just aren’t the same digitally, and beautiful art books with lovely sewn bindings are at the top of that list for me.

I really want almost every book these folks are selling. I sent the NEOGEO one to a friend as a birthday gift, but so many of them are gorgeous. Artcade might be at the top of my list.

I think you’re being unfair to the guy. He also got her breath mints, deodorant, and a self-help book called Everything About You Sucks and Should be Changed Immediately.

I beg your pardon, but Andrew didn’t just see action - he saw so much action that he was incapable of sweating. For decades.

The VRC chips are very neat. I love reading about developers managing to push a console past its limits with chips built into the actual cartridges like that. It seems like the SNES examples of that are more well-known, with Star Fox using the Super FX chip prominently in the marketing. But the NES/Famicom examples…

Short answer: put on by a department store to get people shopping, and remains popular because of tradition, the balloons, and being filmed for a long time.

Yeah, but the parade goes on for a while, there are a bunch of balloons, and they’re not all on camera at every moment. You don’t need to film each balloon on every single street they go down.

That whole video has some great stuff. I like the parade rep who was proudly saying that they knew about the dangerous high winds and were concerned about them, but that they have a plan in place to handle that. Meanwhile, a kid was hit with a lamppost and a woman’s in a coma. Pretty bold, as plans go.

No, I think I’m cute because I’m adorable and because my mom tells me so.

I took it to mean “This is why introverts find other people exhausting.” Which is kind of fair.

I've definitely noticed tool abuse as a big problem on Steam, which is why I avoid the forums.

I’d be interested to see similar numbers for other recent popular games, because this doesn’t mean a lot to me out of context. Given Steam’s extremely wide install base, and how many people just have Steam on a laptop to play Minecraft or Peggle or something, I’d imagine that a large percentage of users don’t have a…

That’s right, Bob. Listen to your friend. A person who makes more money than you is better than you.

Imagine being some kid on 4chan

My local used music/DVD store mostly sold new items, still in the original shrink wrap, marked as “used,” which had been stolen by crackheads from Walmart and other legitimate music stores. The crackheads got less than a buck each. I remember the day the first Harry Potter DVD came out, and was $30 everywhere. They…

Zune and Rhapsody were both doing all this in 2006 or 2007 (Rhapsody started much earlier, but their library didn’t start getting really big until about that time), and doing it very well. I know people like to pretend everything related to the Zune is a hilarious mistake, but Zune Music Pass was awesome. I don’t…

Like with so many other stories, I am firmly Team Nobody on this one.

Deadspin forever, bears never.

It’s disappointing to see The Game Awards lose their way like this, with nominees being decided based on personal relationships. I miss the good old days, when nominees were objectively chosen based on how much money they paid.