I think the tricky bit to this is that virtual property, won from loot boxes, clearly has perceived value to the players but has no actual value outside the game. I don’t believe those items can be resold, can they?

The comparison has to do with the difference in setting between versions. The original Casino Royale film was a psychedelic parody of Bond with multiple elements of Swinging London infused. The recent Casino Royale is a more serious and modern affair.

Asking filmmakers and actresses to think critically about the way thinness is depicted can be a useful conversation, but this is clearly one of the dumbest ways to prompt that discussion.

In WoW PvE, there have been a few odd cases where a Rare could outperform an Epic. In the early part of Cataclysm, for instance, there were some Rare one-handed maces statted with Strength or Intellect, rather than Agility. With an optimized DPS rotation, these oddball weapons could somehow outperform items intended…

...a “confidence thing” is already a “psychology thing.”

I played for the story, but I was also hoping to feel I’d accomplished something. I finished the whole game and don’t remember any actually brutal fights other than those where Mickey bailed me out. I’m not saying this to brag, as I actually tend to be fairly mediocre at most fast-paced real-time combat games.

To each their own, but I’m actually kind of surprised that they’ve held up for you.

This is already going to be the case:

Your response to a comment about companies pushing legislation was to complain about a Supreme Court decision that overturned pieces of existing legislation?

Studios know that they have to tread at least semi-lightly in regard to rebooting public domain material. While they clearly don’t have to buy up those rights to produce material based on that IP, it means that anyone else who wants to can do so as well (potentially diluting the brand).

For the record, I don’t think you’re being condescending, but I do think you might be being myopic. The vast majority of us folks just need to get more exercise. We have to start somewhere.

Possibly, or it may be that different human beings have vastly different perspectives, and you might not be seeing the situation from ours.

Counterpoint:

I mean, didn’t we all used to blow in the cartridge from time to time?

Ah yes. I agree, though I think they want to make sure it’s clear that the “Battle.net” used in WC2, WC3, and Diablo II are totally distinct from the current Battle.net.

Online advertising is on its way out, I’m afraid, and adblocking a site is not some sort of moral grievance. I block ads both because they’re annoying and because sometimes they get me to buy stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise. I have to block ads for my wallet’s sake.

It won’t show up on your launcher, but your keys will show up in the other page I linked to you. And Blizzard lets you download the install client at any point.

If you associated your key with your account at some point, you may already have the ability to download it from the Blizzard website:

I’m surprised you didn’t speak a little more about the 1992 film with her in this interview. Even just basic questions like whether she’d seen it, or how she was working to make her interpretation of the character her own.

vDiplomacy and webDiplomacy both run on the same open source code. vDiplomacy is more variant-oriented, with a lot more maps supported. It tends to be a bit more free-for-all, and their forums haven’t transitioned over to the nicer format yet.