I was agreeing with you, actually. Though I guess some people might actually be calling him a hacker, which he isn't. That is true.

Wow, that's stupid. No, college students are not customers, they are students. Just because they paid to be there doesn't mean they should just be able to do whatever they damn well please. This is the sort of entitled, self-centered BS that everyone complains about when it comes to Millenials.

And those things can wait until after class. If I were a professor, I wouldn't confiscate phones, but I would have a rule of 'no phone usage during class unless it's an emergency' as a zero-tolerance rule. Break it and you're removed from the classroom. I don't care how much you pay.

Or IS a parent, and knows how kids are. Sorry man.

Like those Millenial students who would get mad because, hey, they're paying for these classes! They should get passing grades no matter what!

I'm curious how this experiment turns out—I wouldn't be surprised if someone figured out how to game the system, so that they can just get a ton of free pizza or something. That's the thing about games: people like to optimize them, for maximum reward. For now, though, the app plan sounds promising.

Can you give us a list of what mods you use, out of curiosity? I've owned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for a long time but never gotten around to playing it.

The game looked fine to me at that speed. I'm guessing most of these people never played SF2 pre-Turbo. Most fighting games nowadays are too ridiculously fast. I would LOVE UMvC3, but the game plays so fast that it bores me.

Except that all the planets are FAR TOO CLOSE to their stars. They did a great job with most of it, but not that.

Uh, I hear video game music in my head. But that's because a lot of it is REALLY GOOD MUSIC. If I hear music from movies in my head, does that mean I'm addicted to movies?

No, we call it cheating. The game was initially "hacked" by someone, however, who then wrote an application that could facilitate others in performing the same cheats without actually having to hack the game.

I've used nothing but ATI/AMD cards for the past decade.. I don't know what you mean by 'bad drivers?' Hell, how would you even *know* the drivers were bad?

An interesting hypothesis but, um, unless Destiny takes place billions of years in the future (or umpteen trillion, if we're talking about the actual heat death of the universe), then it's not very plausible.

So, when can we fix game physics to where explosions actually explode things instead of sending them flying through the air like giant catapults?

Incorrect. AMD cards (the newer ones anyway) have built-in recording functionality. The AMD Gaming Evolved/Raptr app can do it for you really easy.

Uh, you go to the Rockies in your car, away from a pass, with no mountain climbing equipment, and cross them. Send me a message here when you get to the other side.

lol, I'm sorry you ignorantly interpreted my words to mean I 'can't handle' it instead of 'would prefer something different.'

Given that they're using fictional representations of real cities, they could have even just gone an extra step and acknowledged that the entire thing was a giant island, given a little explanation of how that works. The entire game treats the San Andreas region as if it *weren't* an island, and that's what's jarring…

Hmm. Wow. Totally shot down by that well-thought-out response. I should just stop existing now. You sure told me!

Oh, I'm sorry, great games should never be criticized? We should just bow down and pay our respects and not be curious why certain things were done in certain ways?