Yes and no. Nintendo did something brave with the first Wii, releasing motion-based controllers that were like nothing before. There were only a handful of worthwhile games, so they deserve credit for their boldness.y

I don't want to wade into the argument about the original comic or the PE response, but I'm pretty sure that "Putting the Dickwolf on a T-shirt" was not a way of "celebrating rape". It was no doubt an immature response to an oversensitive response. It was an unnecessary and insensitive escalation. It was a…

Now that he has gotten an article on Kotaku drawing a huge amount of attention to his game (and it's appearance at PAX) does this constitute a net positive for his marketing? Hasn't his complaining about Mike Krahulik taking his spotlight just given him a bigger platform than he could have hoped for?

He's not a drug dealer. He's a manufacturer!

USA is also the preferred term used by our native reactionaries and nationalists, so by all means keep calling us that if you want to encourage the USA #1 faction.

The United States of America is America in the exact same way that the People's Republic of China is China or France is the French Republic. The official long form name still indicates the common use name, which exists independently of any governmental organization referred to in the long name. Americans aren't…

There is just a terrific amount of good food in Chicago. So that might count for something in the equation, right?

Yeah, except the Nazi party was deeply anti-union and anti-socialist. That was fundamental to their definition. You didn't have to be an anti-semite to be a Nazi, but you damn sure had to be against anything that even hinted at socialism. They outlawed trade unions and the legal alternative they created was a…

You may be right about that. Microsoft has a very long history of bad pricing. Whereas Valve sees the Steam platform as an opportunity for large scale economic tests of the affect of pricing on maximized revenue, Microsoft sets a price and forgets it, apparently oblivious to how much money they are foregoing by…

Actually, Microsoft was going to turn physical copies into digital copies. There wasn't much point in continuing distribution of optical media other than keeping brick & mortar retailers happy. It was a wedge to move toward a completely downloadable market for that console. Right now a huge portion of gaming…

Actually, I really liked it when Microsoft was going to do it and argued at the time that we were going to lose functionality. I was disappointed when it was removed from the plan. To be fair, though, Microsoft's messaging on the subject was crap. They explained it poorly and didn't really sell the benefits at all.…

And I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you pesky bloggers!

Early builds were much slower across the board on every compatible phone. Power mgmt was horrific at the beginning. By the last build everything seemed fine. More apps terminating unexpectedly that you're used to, but I'm sure that will fix itself in the coming weeks as iOS7 compatbility updates flood out for every…

I think those are the same thing more often than not. Profit drives more legislation than principle.

My "free-market Texans" comment was meant to refer specifically to those dealers involved and not an attack on Texans generally. Sorry, it was poorly expressed on my behalf.

Texas isn't hard to crack, Michigan is. If Musk is serious about making a public fight of this, Texas might be good. As evidenced by this article it isn't hard to make free-Market Texans come up against their hypocrisy in a stark way. And whatever he may do on behalf of the dealerships legislatively, Perry will be…

Yes, just like AT&T dropped American Telephone and Telegraph in the mid 80s. The initials stand for nothing other than a unique identifier.

It had changed its name to just "TLC" by 1999. There just isn't money in niche programming. Advertising revenue is considerably higher for a mediocre general entertainment channel than for a thematically focused one (regardless of quality). 15 years of experimenting with niche networks has proved this again and…

Pay stubs and tax returns can get very different results for the same person...assuming your CPA is good enough.

Dunno if it makes me a hipster, but daaaaaamn, that's a sexy wagon. I want it.