Depends on what you mean by Rock, I'd say.

If certain forms of insurance weren't required by law, everyone would almost always be better paying that money into some sort of escrow - the amount you get back is never as much as you put in.

They don't seemed particularly worried about the future of their project - their tweets have been massively optimistic, and the work is too cool and gotten too much positive press not to get outside investment if they have to start over - I'm sure Notch is interested in their tech.

I always look forward to these posts - this world of games is much less corporately strangled than console gaming. I love reading about board games, even if its tough to get adults together to actually play them.

Everything I've read implies they have made big improvements on the headaches and nausea things since the dev kit.

Except it's not that expensive (at $300, its the cheapest HMD around, even) it's not going to be PC only (they are specifically working to make it compatible with Android mobile devices) and it takes years to design and manufacture a major innovative technological product (and they've already shipped over 30,000…

As a child of the 90s, I'll assure you they were never, ever cool.

The offering of the peace pipe is the best part of that whole image - that is some dark humor.

Are even all the shows combined possibly as valuable to the Xbox as one single great Gears or Halo-level game that could have been made with that money, though?

It's pretty solipsistic to think that just because things fell into place for you that they will do so for everyone, though. I know a dozen chemists and engineers that have gone overseas - I'm thrilled for your friends that's not the case for them. I've a great friend who is a neuroscientist at Harvard that's having…

That's simply not true - the heathcare industry, in particular, has been getting flooded with graduates that the industry can't support, and my wife - a chemist and former NASA researcher - has plenty of colleagues looking for work, and many of them have had to relocate to China to find work over the last 5 years or…

Tablets are the future for casual home computing, at least - there's still legions of people who need more powerful and flexible devices for work. I love my tablet for reading in bed and looking up info, but when I have actual work to do, a tablet's not even close to the kind of device I need. Combining the two is…

There are people still out there? Come join us! The crime rates are totally overrated.

Uh - that's the Yankees photo from right after the Boston bombing referencing their long-standing sports rivalry not limiting their sympathy.

Just no. You must not be from around here.

Left for Dead 2 did some cool New Orleans-ish stuff.

I'm sure it's going to be a cool game, but the community has already becomes a bunch of petty elitist nonsense over who got what ship at what Kickstarter level. I play games on the PC, too, but this is the exact reason I'd pick another deep space sim over Star Citizen. My point being, it's a great time to offer an…

Hopefully it can escape having to deal with the somehow-already-horrible Star Citizen community. How can people be elitist jerks about a game that only half exists?

I simply cannot believe that sports fans tolerate that kind of crass and cynical corporatism.

In a much needed reminder to the world: corporations are not democracies.