There are a lot of reasons to care about this. For a lot of people, this kind of thing is interesting as inside baseball. There's a story here, and there's drama in that story, and pleasure in seeing that drama narrativized by someone who writes well.

Well, it's just that what you were saying was pretty stupid in context, so I assumed that you didn't know the context, because I generally assume that people aren't stupid.

It's a clip from an HBO topical comedy show, which you'd know if you read the post, or watched the video.

This was a gag video done for an HBO program called Last Week Tonight. Basically John Oliver's attempt to to a Daily Show/Weekly Wipe style program.

I have to ask a question about porn. I hope you don't mind.

I think that playboy's actually, arguably, more comparable to premium cable in a lot of ways. You've got your good, high-level work, and you've got your straight-man friendly violence-and-tittays-funtimes-hour, and you need to sell both.

I dunno. I think the Playboy readers at least have a more plausible case. Playboy's run some brilliant short fiction in amongst the pornographic wrapping paper, whereas Hooters just has awful, awful wings and a really depressing, misogynist atmosphere.

The sheer volume of men who claim that they go to hooters for the wings is frankly mind-boggling. Do they actually think they're fooling anyone?

No, I did not laugh at Jar Jar, and part of the problem is that he's basically a minstrel show character.

It isn't really about "the artistic expression of the director" at all though. Movies are massively collaborative. For example, Lucas's ex-wife was incredibly important to the films and her re-cut of the original film is probably what saved it. Similarly, Lawrence Kasdan wrote Empire Strikes Back and return of the…

There's a resolution patcher included with Wesp's patch and the Clan Quest mod, which bundles an older version of Wesp's patch.

The problem with Tess's patch is that it actually ultimately introduced a lot of new bugs. Wesp's is the better of the two, although lately I find myself using the older version bundled with the Clan Quest mod because his inability to stop iterating on the patch has led to maddening little meaningless tweaks that…

They don't usually kiss and tell about canceled projects, they only let a few details slip during their kickstarter because of exuberance.

Fun Fact: Obsidian Entertainment was making a nWoD game in the style of bloodlines at one point. It was apparently in pre-production when CCP bought WW and killed it so that it wouldn't dilute the brand they were hoping to build with this game.

Texture mod sucks. Use either the Clan Quest mod or a recent version of Wesp's fanpatch. Although your mileage may vary in terms of what version of Wesp's to use. He fixed most of the bugs ages ago and has since busied himself with really minor tweaks that don't do much.

Tessmage's patch was terrible, Wesp 4-eva

Until Atheists, Agnostics and other Freethinkers ditch Dawkins, we really don't have much room to complain.

Oh wow it's almost as if they think that other people are worth trying to help. What assholes.

Old post, I know, but top down does literally play differently. It's not a matter of technology. It's the fact that games that have a lower level perspective like The Witcher, or Mass Effect, or pretty much any jRPG, tend to be really simplistic and shallow when it comes to combat.

I dunno, I think Letterman's post-9/11 episode was more culturally important than what Colbert's doing. He's just preaching to the choir. He's said nothing more politically radical than Letterman has, and out of character he parrots old establishment liberal lines like Nixon being "Fairly liberal".