The problem is, when the backers paid their money, they were never told they were buying equity in the company, so I don't think they'd have any standing to bring a lawsuit.

I don't think she has much in the way of achievements that would typically merit being named an Attorney General equivalent, though. She's like 33 years old or some shit. The main reason why she was given the job by Sergey Aksyonov (the guy who was installed as the prime minister of Crimea by Russia on February 27) is…

To be fair, EQ players are more likely to actually be into the game's lore than players of similar titles. It also helps that EQ lore is actually pretty awesome and extensive. In EQ2, you can collect tons and tons of books (which also double as house items) and read up on the lore at your own leisure. It's kind of…

No, you are wrong. "Equality" by many people's definition means "exclusively for their specific niche/race/gender".

A favorite of mine.

If you define "morality" as strict social order, she may well be right. Youth culture left unattended can result in the formation of thoughts that are politically transgressive, something which I'm sure the Chinese bureaucracy would like to avoid at all costs.

That The Last of Us movie, if it ever gets out of development, is going to be so stupid. The story is fine and all, for a video game, but I just don't see it flying on the big screen.

The Last Of Us.

Yeah, they're both owned by Yum! Brands, along with Taco Bell.

Umm, Pizza Hut might be the "#1 pizza chain," but it's by no means actually good pizza. That's what I mean. Most people in America don't think "this is the utmost in quality pizza" when they think of Pizza Hut. In Korea, they pretty much think it's the be-all, end-all of pizza, the place where you go when you really…

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, I live in an urban area, and my favorite thing about it is that you never see like a stand-alone McDonald's or something. It's always wedged into existing infrastructure somehow, so each location has a different layout and a different vibe to it.

They don't have Walmart in Korea (at least as far as I know). I think they tried at one point, but the venture failed for some reason. I went to a Costco, however, and the stuff on offer seemed pretty standard.

Yeah, fried chicken is just a generally big thing in Korea. There are tons of national chains, local mom & pop places, and so on. I think KFC stands as sort of the uber-fried chicken restaurant, loved mostly because it's western and has the cultural cache that goes along with that. Also because they sell chicken…

KFC is one of those American restaurant brands that's gotten super-huge in East Asia. I live in Korea and it's big here, too. Another restaurant which is inexplicably popular is Pizza Hut. People here are always surprised when I tell them how janky Pizza Hut is in the US, but they've got clean, two-story locations in…

Yeah, some of the most touching and honest moments in the show involve Swearengen. He stands apart from the typical "antihero" type that's been popularized on TV over the last 15 or so years, in that he's genuinely likable, at his core. Milch creates characters who act in a grey manner throughout a story, but he…

I can see that point of view, but the more I think about it, the more I understand that HBO was pretty much already carrying the show by keeping it around 3 seasons. It deserved a full run and a graceful ending, for sure, but despite critical praise, the viewership just wasn't there at the time. And I can't see how Dea…

That is ... sad. You're missing a crap-ton of great television.

The great thing about Deadwood—and about David Milch as a writer, in general—is how he takes a bunch of interesting (to say the least) characters, puts them into a relatively claustrophobic environment, and lets them enter each others' orbits in striking and unexpected ways. Prime example: Al Swearingen is, at…

Muting people or making chat friends-only are not solutions to the problem. Not if we want to fulfill the true promise of online gaming, which is that you could actually gasp meet a person in a multiplayer match, and not just have to rely on ready-made groups of RL friends to have an enjoyable experience. For me, that…