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Let's try to contextualize the not-dot-replied tweets; they are far from standalone. For example this one https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/521500772136415232 is part of the convo containing the fleas remark that got certain special reactionaries' knickers in a twist. Choice quotes...

I can't better a single word from this [http://www.redstate.com/2014/02/18/nsf-science-poll-americans-compartmentalize-science/] Edit: Just ignore the patronizing ads. Even the creator of the website complains about them. Further edit/somewhat related. My father was an atheist as a teenager...

Absolute religious faith in the most cynical of conclusions leapt toward from the weakest premises (gave high/perfect score to an obvious cash-in sequel, ergo reviewer must be a shill) has become a substitute for healthy skepticism, especially on /v/.

Mostly, though outside of DosBox 386 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386] semi-emulation I am actually not talking about emulation. At all. Let me put it this way: The "uncore" parts responsible for input/output, video compositing/recording and system memory interface are custom, but...

IMHO, as of both Sony and Microsoft taking after the original Xbox in using (almost) off-the-shelf (laptop) PC components, the PC vs Console argument has been rendered moot. The current x86 microarchitecture/instruction set used by both new consoles (and Nintendo will soon do so too, mark my...

When the PS4 and xBone have the first and second largest pre-holiday sales for any home console ever respectively, it is hard to believe they are anywhere near dead. The old console experience of popping in something and having it playable in seconds... In order to truely compete that will...

We're still looking at possibly the second biggest console launch in history. Makes one wonder how much bigger the launches of the past two weeks could have been without the awkward attempt to step into an all digital future by MS, the sausagefest of the PS4 announcement and with giving at least...

Where is the video of that one panel where Bob Chipman said the first Sonic was not all that good? Not to imply that Lococycle is the start of a series, but Twisted Pixel seems worth supporting just to see what they come up with next. If many meh yet novel games have sales that does not...

As much I love them, AMD is to blame here. Funny because unlike the peculiar Power ISA used in the PS3 and 360, x86-64bit is designed to be backwards compatible with binaries going all the way back to the early 90's assuming real mode is not used. Sony (and Microsoft for that matter) could...

Yes, I've taken 6th grade biology too, thank you very much. Wow. Get your hackles down. I'm not even disagreeing with you. Quite the opposite in fact. Even if I where, we're discussing toys, not women's suffrage. Sheesh. Edit:Correction, I was disagreeing with you on there being an...

Final interesting thing of note: Titanfall, made by Infinity Ward refugees, is built not only on the weaker of the two "premium" consoles, it is built on the Source engine. The Source engine, though tweaked heavily over the years, is nearly a decade old...

Your brain does not have a serialized connection to your retina, or through any major sensory chord for that matter. There's not much "sample aliasing" in the time domain. Though light may take (a lot) more than 1/60th of a second to fade from a few cone cells, that does not mean you are unable...

Wipeout HD would like a word with you As does Microsoft's XNA documentation wrt predicated tiling

Eh... huge correction. There will be games running at 1920 columns & 1080 of rows pixels on One and games running at 1280x720 on the PS4 (and the port to the One, because it _is_ empirically less powerful) ... it's up to the devs. In fact, there are games legitimately running at 1080p on PS3 &...

Dude, where's your Medicaid? Like half of many of state's budgets* goes to Medicaid, and then the Fed matches that amount. Means testing is an excellent principle, but I guess (I'm under Tricare Prime) it's grossly misapplied when it comes to ambulatory care. *Which is why my side of the...