I’ve been doing a podcast for three years, 150+ episodes, and we just got our first advertister. Our audience is fewer than 1,000 per episode, so I set our ad rate to be stupid cheap. So yeah, we don’t do it for the money. We’d like to be able to cover hosting costs and other incidentals, but other than our time…

This is a classic prisoner’s dilemma. A developer knows that if we all discount our games, suddenly the console market spirals into the mess that the mobile market currently is, but if you are one of the few who discount you game, you can rake in the benefits while others are stuck holding back the tide.

Exactly, or in other words, it’s a free-to-play game.

smash it to bits, throw the guest out, and drag them into the alley for a beating.

I don’t recall anyone’s guilt being assumed by this article. I think you’re confusing the disinclination to “just drop it” with an insistence that the worst must be true.

Is it your opinion that, if you played the game, you probably didn’t change a lot in the last 10 years?

I’m confused. What is your complaint, exactly? These issues are part of the story around this game, you can’t pretend they don’t exist. You even have your own considered views on them, it seems, which only come from reading about them on websites like Kotaku. You’re free to give them as much or as little weight as you…

It’s a reference to lyrics from a song by The Modern Lovers. David Bowie did an outstanding cover of this song in 2003.

Except Quintin Tarintino is one of film history’s most famous insecure bullshitters, so maybe he likes to think that Bruce Lee was one, too.

This isn’t a spoiler because literally the moment I heard this movie was about the night of the Tate murder I was like “oh, I bet whoever the main character of this movie is will prevent that from happening in a comically violent fashion.”

Only time will tell if his movies will remain relevant.

You know, they might just try to cover it up with makeup and some tv-budget VFX. Weirdly, Data’s appearance in the new trailer for Picard has him looking a fair bit younger than he did in Nemesis.

I read that interview. He really has no idea what Star Trek is about, and it’s very upsetting. Even the 2009 movie, with all its big action and flexibility with canon, was at its heart a story about the optimism of humanity, the unstoppable force of love and friendship, and the value of teamwork and selflessness.

You see, gay culture has this thing called “reading” people, where jokingly broad, comical verdicts are rendered based on superficial observations. Peck was just doing that removed from its original context and presented as political analysis, for an audience he knew wouldn’t appreciate or understand it.... what’s…

Glover didn’t “quit” Community because he didn’t want to be on it anymore, he left because it wasn’t his show. Not that he wasn’t he lead, but that he wanted to do his own projects and had finally earned a chance to do them. Who would blame him for taking that opportunity?

Yeesh, people are such lizard brains.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I do fly a lot and often chose Spirit because I can get “first class” seats without paying a lot of money, and yet I just don’t experience the kinds of terrible problems you seem to pay a lot of money to avoid.

That sounds like a lot of money to pay for a placebo effect.

Those are a lot of caveats, and even your best example is roughly twice as much of an add-on cost as you usually face for Spirit’s BFS (yes, I’m using an acronym now).

The Big Front Seat thing is such a perfect idea. People who fly Spirit are very price sensitive, so they can make the seats cheap-ish and there isn’t a rush to get them (they’re not always available, but I’m surprised how often I can snag one just a day or two before the flight). As someone who has flown first-class a…