This just in: Software development is something only those who do it understand, but everyone that uses it loves to criticize.

If you're level 10 you can set a Steam badge that displays your rarest achievements on your profile automatically, w/o having to wade through all those games.

My rarest Steam Achievement was not buying a single goddamn thing during the last holiday sale. They don't give a badge for that though.

Yes, exactly. I don't know why people don't seem to be getting that. It's not that the advice is wrong, it's that it's not helpful advice on its own.

It'd be cooler if it had a pedometer and the boy walked however many steps as I walked, that way he would gain more exp and level up the more active I was throughout each day.

I remember a screen server having a random guy live out his life kind of like this.

For my self I would say that sure it sounds like a very nice thing. Its like a auto pet or auto character that you could check on and see what they are doing.

For the whole gameing world...well...we fling birds, match gems, and wait for…

I'm too ignorant to read large amounts of words too! We're so dumb and cool!

The thing I love about Vader, is that many of his emotions are based on the reader/watcher's interpretation. What sort of emotion would we imagine Vader has without the prequels? Perhaps just anger, but with the prequels we get a lot more perceived sadness and pity. The mask ultimately makes Vader as deep as you want…

"For more casual bystanders, though, there's a touch of the absurd to it. It already felt too soon when Tobey Macguire's Spider-Man movies — the last of which was only in 2007! — was rebooted in 2012 with a new story and a new actor (Andrew Garfield)."

As Oracle, Barbara was truly unique, the first "information age" heroine, fighting crime with her brain and computer skills, a heroine created before the dawn of the internet really took off. She became defined as more than just "female" Batman, she created the Birds of Prey herself and lead them, and she refused to…

Also the mythological pursuit of the perfect jumping on point.

The other potentially intriguing side of this is Multiversity. It's pretty odd that it's happening alongside Convergence and this relaunch (I know it's basically a coincidence created by delays, but still), and will most likely have nothing to do with either, but it is mapping out the multiverse and basically opening…

You are right about one thing:

Sad to see Massively go.

For whatever it's worth, the crew at Joystiq's World of Warcraft blog, WoW Insider, are trying to start up a Patreon-founded Blizzard news site: https://www.patreon.com/blizzardwatch.

I read Massively at least daily. A lot of intelligent thoughtful articles in a field not known for that. I'm wondering what comes next.

I'd settle for a reprieve from giant crossover events. Just give me, like, three months of standalone stories. That's all I ask.

Only if they can't add a rider that reintroduces CISPA.

Personally for me the reason I generally play as a female character in games when give the option is not because I want to stare at an aesthetically pleasing character but because I am a male 24/7 in real life and I do not need to be one in the video games I play.

I can just imagine seeing this in the campaign