I'm tempted to say Galapogos is my favorite. They (bands in general) just don't make albums like Mellon Collie no more...

The notion of giving up privacy (a civil liberty) for the sake of security is a horrifying thing. Sadly, it's more reality than fiction these days.

I had an iffy internet connection, so, yeah, I played offline frequently, actually. The loss of that option's kinda annoying, really.

Which, I think, is the next step - the graphics, &c., that is.

Haha - there you go. I know I said mediocre graphics, but I was imagining something a little more along the lines of Skyrim with the settings turned way down...

I've been saying it for years: smell-o-vision. 3D TVs are so 2011.

I keep thinking about getting out to Denver someday to live there for maybe a year or so. I just visited the area last year, spending a day or two in the city itself and the rest in the mountains and around Estes Park. I've lived around hills before - the Ozarks and the Texas Hill County - but the Rockies are just…

In a certain sense, though, we may be able to some day generate a reasonable facade of nature in games. Overwhelming use of design that employs emergent events - that sort of thing.

There are, on the flip side, some people who see urban geography as a substitute nature as opposed to being substandard. I can't say I totally agree with their views, but I do understand it. The human mind is natural, after all, and the summation of our efforts in geometry and engineering are just as natural as the…

There's a certain level of unknown/mystery that a lot of shy people have to work with. Some girls go for it, for sure - more power to you if it's workin'!

If you need money - and it's not much at all, but maybe enough to get by - you could consider something like oDesk or some of the content-writing freelancing sites out there. I mean, you really don't make a lot of money for the amount of work you do, but if you're looking between being homeless and not having free…

I'd half-suspect, if that's cultural archetypes cropping up to influence people's lives (this is gonna get real "mass media criticisms" real quick...), it's likely something to do with the confidence of the queen/bitch archetype. Like I said, my experience in the gay community is minimal - I live a decently sheltered…

Nah - and I'm not saying that the devs don't deserve a healthy bonus for the work they do. They deserve to be compensated fairly for the hard work they put in - and a bonus isn't an awful way to do that.

Haha - that guy's awesome. If only all fish salesmen were so triple-threat-ish.

Gay culture's - and I'm speaking from a purely intellectual understanding of it - fairly complex when it comes to being forward. While men tend to be more forward, making some gay men more forward, gay men won't be as forward if the space isn't safe for them. Coming forward in these terms - particularly coming forward…

The chart seems to indicate that $16m is total - their $400k+ salaries, equity compensation, and bonuses all included. I could be reading it wrong, though.

Hiring new employees to ease the workload of everyone during crunch time, hiring new employees for a side project, paying low-level employees more, providing better benefits for employees, investing in the company's rainy-day funds, donating that money to a charity, investing that money in the local community, setting…

They deserve a bonus - yes. $13m bonuses? I mean - $13m.

I do believe in horrible, terrible, un-American phrases like "good enough." It's a blight.

That'd still be $13m worth of a bonus. (The "assumption" section of the chart gives what we can assume is a relatively decent price for the stocks. So, it'd be, give or take, around $13m all the same.) In fact, depending on the changing value of the company, it could become more than $13m.