I can confirm, it’s from your theater; it changes for me depending on which chain I go to, even if the prices are nearly identical, and the rewards cards waive it. Presumably intended to recoup credit card processing fees.

I can confirm, it’s from your theater; it changes for me depending on which chain I go to, even if the prices are…

That would be amazing.

Depending on the information, it could be trivial to trace back to the friend who is an employee and take action against them.  That’s kind of a dick move to pull on a friend.

Ragtag and Visceral were doomed from long ago.  Schreier’s article and some former EA people I’ve talked to about it paint a pretty grim picture for what was left of that studio.  The core people behind Dead Space had pretty much all jumped ship after Dead Space 2; that’s a large part of why Dead Space 3 was…

Undoubtedly. EA is far more beholden to shareholders than it ever has been or ever will be to consumers. People can scream into the internet all they want; if the earnings calls are coming in fine, the shareholders won’t care. What needs to happen now is that people need to not buy a game they disagree with so that…

This is why AAA games are a dying proposition.  “Indie” level productions can accomplish a much better cost/benefit value for the consumer, and remain more profitable, by forgoing the best-and-shiniest approach.  Small game devs absolutely have their own set of problems, but really the community needs to recognize…

If they repeated the happy, gruesome violence from the pilot and made it worse, no thanks. I’m really over the obsession with that in SciFi. If there’s going to be violence, I don’t want it treated lightly.

The paradox of rising efficiency leading to increased overall consumption is well-studied. We will never efficiency our way to an economy that isn’t fatally-dependent on ever-dwindling fossil fuels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

I turned it off substantially because of the unnecessarily awful death of the scientist in the pilot. Glad to see my reaction was the correct one.

It’s important to be clear here too: those strings have always made things worse for the locals. Always.

Honestly, I really liked this article, because I haven’t finished the season yet but it was a place to come engage with other fans and hopefully avoid spoilers.

If Harley wants to expand (and keep) their consumer base, they should really put more time, money, and energy into helmet safety laws!

Not an option for a lot of people.

Sure, but even the best OEMs have to deal with carrier interference, and are still slower than Apple is or Microsoft was. I heavily prefer Android, but this is by far their biggest weakness, and it’s super frustrating that it’s taking them so long to solve it.

All that would accomplish at this point is making a lot of people very angry and generate a ton of bad press. Easier to just live with the teasing at this point and hope people eventually get tired of waiting.

I think tom.blersch was referring to playing the national anthem, which did indeed start during the height of jingoist nationalism around WWI. It was always a political charade, and it’s past time we put an end to it.

Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I was intrigued to see Kotaku review it, but this is just not useful at all. There’s room for a creative way to address the usual boilerplate pieces of a game review, and I get that they’re boring to do, but come on, this is like ten times longer and with far less useful content. I don’t…

Your keyholes must be a lot louder and more mobile than the ones on my locks.

Physical locks don’t go out and ask passers-by if they’d like to stick a key in them.

It’s going to remain an Android problem for longer though, because of how tortuous the process of issuing a patch is. I really want Google to bash whatever skulls need bashing to get things fixed (likely Qualcomm’s and carriers), but it’s hard not to acknowledge that Apple and Microsoft are much more timely with…