In fairness, the greater worry early on was the idea of a rogue air force bomber or similar situation where a non-American power took over a nuclear weapon in the moment and could launch or detonate it before the USA could reestablish control. A cipher code might not stop a foreign computer system but it could delay a…

Firefighters wouldn’t be saving a vehicle if humans were in need of immediate rescue. Just like they wouldn’t be saving abandoned homes if someone was in need of immediate rescue.  Humans have been evacuated not only for their protection, but also because it allows firefighters to efficiently go about rescuing…

There is only one kind of game that printed game guides have ever been good for, and that is large scale open-world adventures like Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout, Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy etc. And the only reason is that those games, at least initially, were so large compared to everything that came before that…

Bud Light drinkers. 

“Fuck you, Viari!”

The SR71 Blackbird has an operational cost of $2.5 million and 3 Sperm Whales per flight hour.

So talk of Nazis dies down for a while. You don’t see them outside of the occasional historical documentary and as the cartoonish villains in the popular culture of other countries. You don’t see the Swastika or the lightning bolts or the seig heil. You think it’s all a bad memory, a terrible fever dream that could nev…

My college had one of those multi-arcade setups away to free play and after the interest in Street Fighter died down Windjammers became the thing. If its Pong, then it’s Pong with the same emphasis on positioning and techniques as a 2D fighter.

I really hope that Kelly Marie Tran has better writers and directing this time, her performance in The Last Jedi was genuinely awful.

*shakes tiny, amphibious fist*

Timetravel is effectively a weapon of unlimited mass destruction. I have no doubt that if some time traveling species is watching us, they’re immeasurably happy we can’t rewrite our historical record ad infinitum.

That cloned orca wil kill you and everyone you love if given the chance. 

A current basic Model S currently weighs about 4650 pounds. A Volvo XC90 full sized SUV weighs about 300 pounds less.

Who gives a shit about the power cap? It’s an arbitrary number. Most players want to blast aliens with 8 other people. That’s why we buy games like Destiny. If you wanted infinite loot and a disgustingly long grind to the power cap with almost nobody else interfering go play Borderlands.

Of course it’s not intrusive. YOU have to leave the game entirely and message people back and forth, then add them to your platform friends list (because in game chat is hot garbage on top of being opt-in), then hope none of them are demanding you already be an expert.

Before every aspiring Dungeon Master flips their TV on its back, beware that many flatscreen TVs do not like being stored or used in anything other than a vertical position, especially for long periods of time. This is particularly true for many older models and technologies like plasma screens.

IfI’m reading right, it’s because you can download a patch from the developer website that adds much more.

Not sure what you’re getting at. W1 had heavy censorship on release, and W3 had lots of non-explicit nudity combined with non-explicit sex scenes that would have mostly made it through mid 90s American censorship for R rated films.

What can be patented is the method used to enable or express an idea. However, that requires a complex, specific method that would not occur naturally or normally. You cannot patent the idea of moving a board game figurine from one square to the next, but you can patent a system to determine which space it moves to if…

Negotiating for the IP rights would be a matter of calling the license holder and negotiating. It’s easier than you might think for some of these niche products where there’s limited demand to begin with. And the Alien franchise is hardly original enough to prevent this game from doing it easily without it. Just…