Already happened when I tried to preorder at GameStop today.

At what point during a telemarketer call do you make it obvious that you’re fucking with them and just wasting their time? I don’t have a set rule of thumb for it, I just kinda go with the flow, personally. Thoughts?

All of the workers? No. The skilled engineers, operators, and tradesmen of the system deserve the salaries they get paid.

LIRR ticket cashiers sit behind bulletproof glass in a temperature controlled building (the few remaining in the hub stations, most stations have phased them out in favor of machines since my uncle retired in 2005). It’s far from hazardous and nothing like a highway toll booth.

Whenever I’m in conversation with people about state of the MTA, I always tell them the story of how my uncle was making about $90k a year working a ticket booth in Long Island Railroad stations by the time he “retired for medical reasons” (his ailment would be described accurately as chronic Irish flu).

MS and Nintendo finally get their collective shit together and jointly release a 20th anniversary GoldenEye remaster on Switch and XB1.

I don’t think CDPR will have any problems sticking to the release date for Cyberpunk 2077

Then you were only hurting yourself by skipping gems like this:

I can’t help but be creative with it, even when I’m the only one playing.

I took these photos of Ja Rule sitting with some club douche hanger-on (whom I now know to be MacFarland) together at an Islanders game in December of 2015.

Hopefully there’s a trial period.

Curt Schilling’s an asshole, so that would explain KofA at least.

Meh. I think the fun of watching the “10,000 raiders vs 1,000 mutants” type Fallout 4 videos is that they’re a part of a world you’ve explored and you’ve dealt with them firsthand so you know what kind of damage they can do.

I think that’s Dock Ellis on the left.

Mine looks like James Vega went on a really long meth binge, lost all his muscle mass, and contracted Bell’s Palsy due to malnutrition.

But I and the rest of the io9 staff were trying to think of live-action movies and TV shows that truly had no connection to our real Earth

I lol’d, but he’s got two monitors. Maybe the right side one is where he’s working on some slow ass rendering or FTP upload with a lot of processing time in between commands.

Moriarity (was) on a comedy channel? I remember him as being overly humorless and even borderline preachy in his IGN editorials.

I imagine Jeff Bezos’ conversation with the engineer went a little like this:

This game is the reason I bought a PS4 to compliment my XB1.