“Doubtless, the Epic Games Store needs work, but Steam’s stranglehold isn’t good for anyone, and competition—something people have been begging for for years—isn’t always friendly.”

The reaction is less they want it on Steam. It’s more they’re upset that they did this so close to the release date, after it had been up for preorder on Steam. Afterall, you only have to look at games that released on other platforms like Origin, and see quite a lack of outcry for those games. Heck I think there was…

“Hey, guys, you know that massive source of ad revenue we have? Burn that shit to the ground.”

EVE Online continues to hold the belt for the “Game I love reading about but would never ever consider playing for myself” title.

“Business or pleasure?”

If I tried to enter a country on a tourist visa and they determined I was there for business, this is exactly what I would expect to happen.  Not sure why anyone is acting like this was unexpected or out of the ordinary.   

Im no fan of Trump, but this exact thing would have happened under Obama. These rules have been in place for decades. You cant enter the country with the wrong Visa. Nothing mysterious about this. Basically their paperwork was wrong.

A lot of takes already here, but Cecilia points out that the fault likely lays with the artists or whoever prepared their visas:

Thank god ICE is here to protect us from nerd artists.  They might have drawn a sword on someone.

That jingoistic attitude is what generally keeps me away from Twitch entirely. So many people treat it with almost a cult-like reverence. This company is owned by Amazon, one of the largest and most profitable corporations on the planet. You guys aren’t the upstart challenging the man. You are the man, and everyone…

Really what needs to happen at this point is Twitch needs to be offering Partners salaries or straight-up hourly rates for their work. They’ve proven they’re able to attract an audience at this point, just make it official. Affiliate can be the “old” partner system.

To be honest, as a foreigner looking in, I doubt the issue is purely guns. We also have somewhat easy access to guns in many European countries. Here in Denmark, all you need is a hunting/rifle license, a gun safe and permission from the police (Hunting and sport shooting are both legitimate reasons). You can even buy…

Yea, but it’s not like they made the demo the day after the shooting. It was made before hand and had to be submitted. The timing of the CPAC just screwed them. I wonder how many people that are calling facebook tasteless today will defend not pulling all shooty videos from Youtube and Twitch because of that one…

So, they want virtual gun control, but not ACTUAL gun control?

So why the fuck was Facebook showing off VR tech at CPAC in the first place? What’s the goal there? Ignoring the specific demo and it being tasteless to use right now, what’s the goal of Facebook taking a tech demo to any political conference? Putting it in front of people, certainly, but who do they expect to attract…

Grandpa Max AND the Overmind?

Goddamn son, talent.

You had me at Perceptor.

Pretty sure that Colonel Campbell could read anything and it would sound deeply ominous yet awesome at the same time.

I generally like Rowling’s social media presence, but I have to admit that my respect for her would go to a whole new level if, one of these years, she wrote, “I don’t feel bad at all for killing Sirius or Hedwig or Dobby or any character. It was absolutely glorious to kill every single one of them. If you felt pain…

Fuck that. Ralph Macchio’s career ended when he got arrested for shooting the clerk in Alabama.