Don’t make the perfect into the enemy of the good. We’re under no illusions that gun control, properly implemented, will ever get rid of murder completely. That doesn’t mean that we can’t make reasonable efforts to reduce the murder rate and particularly reduce the frequency and casualties of mass violence.

Wagner was definitely antisemitic, but it’s debatable whether that subtext is actually present in the Ring Cycle. If it’s there at all, it’s in Das Rheingold rather than Die Walkure. 

The console versions of D3 don’t need perpetual online connectivity.

The tech isn’t widespread yet, but diesel fuel itself can be manufactured in a carbon-neutral fashion (or nearly so).

The real trouble is when you hold the door open for someone, and you find yourself unable to figure out when to let the door go as a long stream of people file in right after.

Based on that description, it probably is plagiarism.  It sounds a whole lot like paraphrasing or rephrasing someone else’s content without citing them as a source.  That’s definitely a type of plagiarism.

This is turning into the video game journalism equivalent of Shattered Glass.

6 year marriage. They knew each other for 15 years. 

I don’t think the idea is really to be a true competitor to Steam. I think the idea is to earn enough from the storefront to provide Discord an additional reliable revenue stream.

76 is also the sort of game that would need its own launcher anyway if it wasn’t wrapped in a larger company-driven launcher.

Unless you inadvertently find yourself penalized for underpaying your income taxes by too high an amount.  We very nearly hit that threshold last year, and we thought we’d filled out the withholding forms correctly.

They put the cart before the horse. In order to make a business model of that sort work, you need to secure the agreements with a critical mass of theatre chains first (or run some pilot programs with smaller chains).

My understanding is that the stat squish did the most damage at the lower levels, not at the level cap.

People tend not to actually play in earnest on the PTR, especially when it comes to parts of the game that have long-term payoff (like leveling) rather than short-term enjoyment (new instances/raids).

It’s a thing.

Europe also tends to have shortages of carbonation, so the standard is a bit different. 

The punishment didn’t fit the crime, and Peter Thiel’s lawyers and hand-picked judge ensured that Gawker would go bankrupt before they had a chance to properly appeal (which almost surely would have seen the sentence reduced).

“There’s government pork and then there’s just swine.”

Wouldn’t the leg injury have been covered under Workman’s Comp rather than personal health insurance anyway?

No, they didn’t work for Activision. They built games in partnership with Sierra, which was still an independent publisher at the time.