Mod parent up. I've put down games before because of one particularly difficult part that I was tired of beating on. That's where I am on both of the DS castlevania games I have (those bosses don't screw around!) I'd be there right now on the Slash battle in Guitar Hero 3 if the game didn't - guess what? - let you win that after a few tries.

I just have better things to do with my time than get frustrated over a local maximum of difficulty. Some of those things are play other games that I can actually get through.

As I understand it (though I'm not a psychologist) a mental disorder is classified as such when it detrimentally affects the life of the person who suffers from it. So not all people who seem to be bitter a lot would necessarily have this, but if it causes them to start losing or cutting off friends, or impacts their decision making in a negative way, it would be classified as a disorder.

So it's no surprise that excessive bitterness can be a disorder. So can excessive happiness - ever heard of manics?

All well and good, but I'll lament the loss of ability to watch someone else play, which can be fun in its own right (and is essential in a large family with only one console!). With head tracking, the visuals don't make much sense unless you're the person playing the game..

Modern Trek would have given us a two-minute explanation about what "red matter" is and why igniting it is such a bad thing. In doing so they would have invoked at least ten different subatomic particles, five of which actually don't exist and the other five of which would be completely misused. This probably would have happened around a conference table that looked like it belonged in a 90's-era executive boardroom.

Calling it "red matter" and leaving it at that felt like Old Trek again.

Depends - is time travel used as a crutch to put things back the way they were, or to tell an interesting story that couldn't happen without it? You seem to imply that the latter doesn't exist.

The time travel plot was there to explain the alternate universe and connect it with the Trek that fans know and love. The plot could have happened without it, but I appreciate the effort to not just do a cold reboot of the series even if it did involve time travel.

Although, given this last season of Lost, one could reasonably argue that Abrams has an obsession with that particular plot device right now...

Gene Roddenberry originally pitched the original Trek as "Wagon Train in space". Star Trek, especially the original series, is totally a space western (though not in the same obvious way that Firefly is).

...apple/AT&T decides that running web servers from iPhones is taking up too much of the network's bandwidth and they flip the kill switch on this app though? I guess as long as people are just using it for personal file storage...

Adaptations of Philip K Dick books are notorious for being put in development hell. Scanner Darkly, IIRC, went through several attempted treatments before we got the rotoscoped version. And there's been attempts off and on to bring us Ubik on the big screen, though the last I heard of that was a few years ago and it was just being written.

...not to say that I'm not still cautiously excited!

Smash Brothers Melee, I believe, had trophies that also functioned as achievements before the idea got big. Or did the achievement-based trophies only show up in Brawl and I'm remembering incorrectly?

Too bad slashdot doesn't have a "-1 Godwin" mod...

Planet X was the name given to a hypothetical fifth gas giant that could influence the orbit of Neptune and account for the discrepancies between the computed orbit and the observed orbit. It later turned out that one of the two (though I forget which) was slightly off, and when corrected the theory matched the observations exactly, and no Planet X was needed.

Then don't. Besides, given that knowing something is a kind of power in and of its self ("knowledge is power" and all that), omniscience could be considered a subset of omnipotence. Your correction is tautological given the original statement.

Presumably, though not necessarily in law school. When it comes down to whether or not a contract is enforceable and what the applicable laws are, it's that background, and not one in CS or engineering, that counts.