Hell, if we really want to be technical, the problem is much more logistical than technological: lasers, plasma and black hole cannons don’t do much good if you can’t recharge, repair, and replace quickly.

It’s not the tipping that’s the problem: it’s that the company is allowed to lower wages because tips are considered part of an employ’s expected wage for reason I really don’t understand (outside good old corruption.)

When I first played Never Winter Nights, I accidentally hit a kid with a fire spell: she responded by attacking, becoming an invincible hell hound that chased me all the way into a prison overrun by its inmates, interrupting every battle and every attempt at rest with a kick to the shins. I had to trap her inside a…

That’s obviously what the class is for: the “bad guys” wear bright colors and sunglasses for a reason. Also, a theme park is obviously going to have security around for this, so there isn’t much risk a practical matter.

In fairness, it isn’t so much a question of funding as it is of leverage: investors want far more leverage on an unproven project than one building on past success, and that gives people a pretty good incentive to go to sites where they can raise money without doing things like agreeing to be personally liable for a…

To further explain this, potatoes go “bad” when the starch changes to sugar: perfectly edible, but the chips look darker, and companies don’t want to risk selling those. There are also chips with spots on them, and those get thrown out.

From what I’ve heard, the series isn’t ending so much as Miyazaki is handing it over to the B-team who made Dark Souls 2, although it isn’t clear what they actually plan to do with the series.

Miracle comebacks do happen, but they tend to look very different in Starcraft 2's pro scene: the most common method is last ditch drop harass to cripple the enemy economy, while a sudden attack against an enemy army using storms/widow mines/flank attack banelings is slightly second.

Actualy, it’s freqently the opposite: people are often more interested in the characters (be they one dimensional or not) than they are in the sex. Sex *is* an expected part of relationships, so people do expect it, but they’re as likely to skip the scenes (...while actually playing the game, at least), as they are to…

Did you miss the part about criticism, news reporting and parody? Because those are what Nintendo (among others) have been filing automatic claims against because of the use of video and sound clips, without regard for how those clips are actually used.

It wasn’t the Ring of Power (that was still all Sauron): it was several Elven rings. They aren’t as powerful, but Sauron also has a much harder time manipulating them, although he can very much do so if he actually manages to find them.

The diplomatic mission part was laughable from the get-go: how many diplomats go around shooting at military vessels ordering them to stop?

Yeah, all the game does is update the graphics, completely change out the touch-screen based elements from the game proper and the not-pokemon system, and also add in an extra world with Aqua and a movie to explain what the hell is up with Kindom Hearts X for the people who sank time into it. Why on Earth would they…

Really, it makes it even better: Vader personally boarding the ship and choking an officer to death makes more sense if everyone there knows that the rebels are just wasting the Imperials time.

What could a union do? Missing payments are already a serious legal danger (in the US at least, where they’ve already shut down), and can easily lead to a punishing lawsuit at best, and outright imprisonment of the employer at worst. What greater threat would a union have?

Do those Widowmakers looking like they were hacking to anyone else? The crosshair movement looked overly consistent: Especially the second video, since breaking the crosshair away from someone’s body and reorienting to the head looks REALLY suspect.  

Frankly, it’s better to use the old version anyway, simply because Enderal would need to be uninstalled before Skyrim could be played again, which is a hassle.

The Union *did* actually have repeating rifles, like the
Spencer Carbine, the Henry rifle, and the Merrill Carbine, with thousands being issued in the last few years of the war: they may take more time to reload, and aren’t a good choice for close quarters combat, but they still stand far above muzzle-loading rifles.

You’d be surprised: most infantry had rifles, sure, but light machine guns were also used extensively. You needed to try and hold a position after taking it, after all. The almost exclusively late war sub machine guns are a bit ridiculous, admittedly, but so is a tank that doesn’t suffer from break downs.