I was totally 'asexual' (I'm hesitant to use that term because I did become 'straight') until I was 25 years old. I had literally no sexual feelings at all as a teenager and through university. I just assumed that it was just a 'thing', like not liking dancing or being around lots of people. When I was 25 I met…

I'm actually not American, I'm half British half German, and have lived in the UK all my life. I converted the price into USD so the OP might understand better. In the UK a fancy coffee at Starbucks is the equivalent of $6.

Starbucks makes more profit on a $6 coffee made by a human than they would on a $2 coffee made by machine, even with employment costs. I'm all for automation and all that, I help moderate r/BasicIncome on reddit on another account, actually. People pay for service by a human, even if it makes absolutely no…

A good coffee machine has been able to replace a Starbucks 'Barista' for 20 years. But they don't do it. Why? Because they can't charge $6 for a coffee when it's obvious that it's just being made by a machine. The fact that an actual human takes your order and writes your name shittily on the cup fools you into…

Exactly, I'm pretty sure a £40 costume from the party store would have been better than about 80% of the Cosplay I saw at Comic Con in London.

So if you lay a developer off when you finish a project and there's nothing for them to do, you're the bad guy. But if you keep them around because firing people sucks, pay them full salary to do nothing, and then move them onto another project several months later, you're also the bad guy?

I think Oculus Rift and its peripherals could actually give arcades a new lease of life. The accessories like the circular treadmill that lets you walk in games and some of the cool projection stuff aren't really possible at home unless you're rich and/or have a lot of space.

I honestly wonder what kind of fantasy land everyone else is living in where this *doesn't* happen. In investment/corporate banking the kids come straight out college and do 100 hour weeks for a decade (if they make it- the bottom 1/5 to 1/3 get fired every year depending on how the company is doing), way more than…

Also if you pre-order the new expansion you get 1200% bonus exp during class mission for the next two months, allowing you JUST to play the class stories without anything else if you want.

Love it. So hyped.

Dragon Age was originally coming out this week :(

Sure they're selling something- they're selling entertainment. It's like a bar that gives you free peanuts or chips, and then charges you double for drinks, except in this case, they give away the game for free, and people pay for it by buying (or 'renting') virtual currency. They are still selling the game, just in…

Neither of those, however, apply to the sellers of F2P games, who are merely selling an entirely unnecessary, luxury good that is totally and completely optional in every way, at a very high profit margin via IAPs.

Rent-seeking is mainly seen as bad by leftists because there is a limited supply of land. There is not a limited supply of games, or game real estate, or game items. Participation in Capitalism/real-life is compulsory, participation in shitty F2P mobile games is not. This isn't 'rent seeking', it's profiting off…

Isolation is a horror game as Alien before it was a horror movie.

I really think that when we get the ability to scan objects into games and studios can fire all the artists making pots and kettles and spoons and whatever, game budgets will fall a lot.

Well the automation of drudgework has been eliminating jobs since the invention of the printing press. Artists are a big chunk of game budgets, so the reduction in the number of them needed will allow a lot more games to be made for the same cost.

I think releasing right around AC:Unity and GTAV: Redux and Far Cry 4 and so on is a big risk. If they hit 95+ metacritic they will be raking in the dough and the game will do great. If they hit less than 90, they're screwed.

90% of stuff in fantasy worlds exists in the real world. In Star Wars, for example, the deserts, the forests, the trees, the knives, the forks, the robes, the light fixtures, the ground textures, a lot of the building textures, a large chunk of everyday objects and so on, all exist in real life. The extra stuff…

There's nothing like a scientific "for some reason" to save having to do more research.