Carter Mills

Right. Waterboarding stopped being water torture when the Bush administration invoked the powers of language and coined a more playful term for it. Classifying it as an "enhanced interrogation technique" also helps. George Orwell is rolling in his grave.

So this is like a PC but it operates on a spec standard that everyone has to follow so that the price drops rapidly? That sounds good for everyone.

First Life.

The problem is that a lot of companies, if they see that this is acceptable, will actually cut features that would have been released with the full game had it not been for the internet and charge the end-user for them later.

Also, I somewhat agree with you on that last point. The problem is that when a politician starts talking about "cleaning the water," they usually mean in the form of legislation, and I think our Constitutional rights have suffered enough over the past eight years. But we shouldn't assume that's what he meant without giving him a chance to clarify.

You don't matter. Your vote matters. Once they have that, your wishes become irrelevant until the next election rolls around.

I'm not a huge Halo fan, but anyone who's willing to knock Chuck Norris despite that terribly annoying internet fad gets a plus from me.

The thing is, he could have listed it Buy It Now for $500 and it still would have sold as soon as people caught wind of it.

That really depends on the game. Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's List would suffer if they didn't have their mature content because it is all purposeful. Saw, on the other hand, is just violent garbage for the sake of being violent garbage.

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Huh? Oh, I see. Nevermind.