Misleading headline.  Ford order to pay millions for actually stealing software.  Not allegedly.  The jury found that it did.

It’s definitely, definitely, definitely bots. No question.  The game will search for a human and if it can’t find one within a few seconds then it will match you with a bot.  The Warhammer game does this too.

They are gonna get the shit sued out of them.

Occam’s Razor: she just made a bad call and won.

I have a nice truck and a nice suv and I spend zero time worrying about it getting stolen.  If someone steals my shit, I have insurance.  I feel like I’ll get some value out it.

These guys are literally the best in the business. Maybe two other studios in the world can compete with Naughty Dog. And so you have to respect that these guys know how to create incredible games on reasonable timelines, and not just assume that a culture of working very hard is a bad thing.

The Last Night is getting beat at its own game. The developer, Tim Soret, seems a good guy and a very skilled technical artist. I do think that game will be released and it will be one of those ‘auteur’ experiences, but meanwhile games like Replaced will suck up some of the energy for that experience.

I am a real-world trial attorney and the comment about having a well-rounded life outside of the law rang true with me.  I think it’s a very important component to courtroom success.  And while a first-year law student can’t try cases--at least in my jurisdiction--second-year law students can and do try cases, and you…

I came back to Elite after a several year hiatus to explore this new expansion, and I am not at all disappointed. I have had some amazing experiences on the ground over the past few days—particularly with the stealth missions. The stealth game feels a lot like Skyrim, strangely. You’ve got to duck in and out of cover,…

Juris Doctorates exist, and yet no one calls lawyers “Doctor.”

PhDs who insist on being called “Dr.” can often be insufferable. In American society, “Dr.” generally means Medical Doctor.  In academia they’ll start throwing around the Dr. for PhDs but it’s just annoying when it escapes academia.

Households with gross incomes of $160,000 aren’t swimming in money, but they aren’t exactly digging in the trash for food. There needs to be a line somewhere and it’s going to be arbitrary no matter what. 

I was lucky enough to ride this a bunch of times as a kid and it was always my favorite.

The IRS rate is not a “reimbursement” rate. It’s a deduction off your gross income, and many companies peg reimbursements to that figure.  So you can fully deduct every cent of income you made using that rate, and in fact take a loss based on your other expenses.  

It’s completely absurd to compare Hades with the Last of Us II in terms of effort required to complete. Hades is a 2D procedurally-generated action RPG with some light story elements. The Last of Us II is a massive, 20+ hour Hollywood-style blockbuster movie with absolutely ridiculous levels of carefully handcrafted…

Inverted look is, I believe, the more natural way to do it.  When I look up, I incline my head backwards.  I bend forward at the neck and waist to look down.  The stick emulates the movement of my body with inverted look.

Here’s a mental exercise for the author: try writing this article as if your dream candidate just landed the job of SecDef.  Who is it?  What are their policities? Also keep in mind that they need to run the US Military.

I think you’re making a mistake by constantly attacking Rowling.  You’re feeding an echo-chamber on this and you’re also specifically and repeatedly calling her a transphobe where an objective reading may not really justify that position.  Even me suggesting that Rowling’s statements could be interpreted differently…

eBay or legislatures need to make a stand on this, or both.  A simple 90-day moratorium on selling certain well-defined items above MSRP would do it.  I’m all for capitalism and supply and demand economics, but this is predatory anti-consumer behavior that should be stopped.

The point of the Harper essay is that tricky social issues tend to be distilled by the public into a few basic Right or Wrong positions, with no grey in between. Attempts by independent thinkers to reconcile a Right position with a Wrong position are shouted down as heretical. Popular modern thinking is tribal and…