Fallout 76 is the digital representation of a rolled up newspaper smacking a dog that utterly refuses to listen. 

I thought the 1990s were supposed to be the decade of peak irony and snark and that 9/11 was supposed to have shocked us all into a new earnestness. I mean, it didn’t work for me personally, and I’m as snarky as ever, but that seems to be the accepted thing. Attributing snark to early 21st century seems a bit off.

No, sorry. You can only have the name Metroplex if you are a city who turns into a giant Autobot.

I was watching the Jimquisition on this the other day and he made a fairly interesting point about Blizzard on this one. They argue that the matter is to keep politics out and keep the optics on the game itself. But if someone were to post something that is arguably political but less controversial (and certainly not…

I feel bad for the guy from Schenectady. Everybody must say, “Is it OK if we just call you ‘Albany?’”

No, but substituting “porn” for “born” is either the best autocorrect mistake or the best Freudian slip I’ve seen this week.

...remembered as the decade of snark, a period where being smart and funny also meant being witheringly condescending towards everyone and everything that wasn’t in on the joke.

I do want to see a meeting between Dallas-Fort Worth and District of Columbia. 

It also is very convenient that there aren’t two people from the same city who happened to survive.  

All the publicity at the very least maybe helps at least ONE company stopping always caving in to China’s demands (which now encroach into international space too where they try to ban and censor anything they don’t like) - just look at how China in recent years tried to bully companies such as Marriott, Svarovski,…

Meanwhile gamers are lapping up the fortnite news even though fortnite is way deeper in China’s pocket. Ever hear a fortnite streamer mention Hong Kong? Nope, and you never will. 

To be fair, China IS ruled by a cartoon character...

Winnie the Pooh is a much loved institution around the world but look how they reacted to that.

Have they finally moved past their, “Both sides are equally bad” bullshit yet?

That says more about the general cultural amnesia than it does about Gates.

Ya don’t know that he still won’t.  He probably lasted as long as he did because he knows where the bodies are buried.

you...you do understand that was a reboot, right?

No...piss off.

This is one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen on this site.
“Don’t protest when it would be effective, because it might hurt people’s feelings.”

I’m not going to BlizzCon, nor do I plan to, but if someone were doing pro-democracy protests at SDCC next year or something like that, I’d have no problem with it. In fact, I’d encourage it.