Oh, the epic eye-rolling.

Yeah - that's pretty much how I'm doing it - 3 hard pushes. My wife an I go through a canister about every 3 or 4 weeks - we've got the smaller one it came with, mostly because you can't exchange it towards credit towards the larger one - and I'd say we each drink 2 or 3 pints a day? I'm in Philadelphia, but there's…

Yeah? I kinda hate it - I just use it for making seltzer water, but the canisters don't last that long, and are a pain to exchange if you aren't trekking out to a big-box-stripmall every weekend. Primarily, though, the level of carbonation is pretty weak compared to what you get with canned seltzer after the first…

Ownership of digital content certainly strikes me as an antiquated notion - I can see the appeal, but it feels like a holdover from the past more than a relevant outlook towards the future.

I think the assumption is that half of the 30% will get on board if the have to, and the profit lost from the remaining 15% will be made up for by reducing used sales and having more avenues to sell content through their service.

The real joke here is that all this worry about DRM and used games isn't going to mean anything when we're all just downloading games from both of the console's virtual stores, just like we do with iOS and Steam. The big difference is that MS's messaging was moronic, and Sony's was inspiring - but neither will be…

Well, in this case, 4/5 of the games shown all day were some level of cross-platform, especially if you include the PC - hardly a more/better scenario - and that trend seems unlikely to shift over the coming days.

My brother and I debated that for the millionth time this evening, only to finally realize that not only do I have a whole knuckle's worth longer fingers, but that I also hold the controller very differently. The Xbox controller's offset sticks conforms exactly to how I hold a controller - with the left side raised up…

The divide between subjectivity and objectivity is far wider than you are accommodating for. You'll have to define a lot of objective goods, which - while plausible - is very hard and requires much debate in establishing such criteria.

If there's not a $75 Platinum tier that blocks the Doritos-and-Dew advertising barrage, they can count me out.

I don't think anyone's denying that are loads of assholes at the top of the socioeconomic food chain, but there are a ton of reasons that just a fraction of CEOs, developers, and directors are women or minorities and that has way more to do with the socially regressive culture of the wealthy than it does with…

"went commie"? This is about as classically capitalist a move imaginable.

I keep reading that sentiment online lately, or something to the effect of 'society thinks women are like this' - but who - except for fringe throwbacks like maybe a grandparent, a born-again aunt, or a racist uncle - actually still thinks that? This isn't 1956. It's such a primitive, conservative, worldview that I…

Exactly - it's hard to tell if this is a truly dire situation, another story about the general woes across the game dev industry, or claims from a handful of employees being blown out of proportion for page hits.

In an article of good points about a difficult work environment, plugging this sex-shaming nonsense " the team once created a seductive image of one of the characters that was meant to be an internal joke, but when Stieglitz saw it, he released it to the public" just comes off as agenda-pushing. Unsurprising, I guess,…

Why is it so hard to get this level of aesthetics in an actual game?

It is likely, though, and that's relevant to this discussion. Cross-platform publishers aren't going to allow for a wide policy discrepancy.

Isn't that still rooted in what someone finds rewarding, though? If it's not your thing, that's cool (of course!), but I can't imagine not being riveted by the vast majority of the show's weighty conversations!

I read a great, really stretching it, argument for Tommen that I really liked:

http://gameofthronesandnorsemythology.blogspot.com/2013/05/jaime-…

I think you'll find that when you get a little older that most of the actually interesting stuff in a story is in the drama and talking, not the fights, chases and explosions. When that's all masterfully combined - such as in Game of Thrones - it's a pretty awesome thing to behold.