Unless the "creative work" is a computer game, of course.

I presume, from the (rather thin) description that your favorite websites are ones you go to more often, so they'll get more of those little chunks of money sent their way, no?

And it's naive to assume that I-don't-know-you, never-heard-of-you, and who-are-you aren't just as evil, or at least as enthusiastically corruptible, as the scumbags we keep getting stuck with.

What about saying you won't because, in the end, you're not likely to see any appreciable difference anyway?

When the game board is made of toxic waste, going out and buying a new set of plastic tokens doesn't fix the whole "getting deathly sick" thing.

Of course not. Those are approved stereotypes.

Back in the day before the day, the tipline was free, except for LD charges.

Other than that, I have pretty much the same history, I just couldn't pass up the "get off my lawn" moment. ;)

Apparently, Lewis is/was a feminist. In the rational universe, we call that "begging the question."

Just how much control is given to the players? Creating our own quest lines and NPCs, etc is kind of obviously intended, but just how far down the rabbit hole can we go?

Can players define their own weapon/armor stats? What about models?
Can players modify their rulesets to add, for example, new loot drop tables? How about new crafting professions?

And, actually a really important question: Is the digital release going to be available without Steam?

There have been plenty of those: legitimate, technical complaints about design flaws, suitability, and downright broken shit. Yet, somehow, that all seems to fall under the "Lul Change-hating luddite uniz nekbeard" response. So I really don't think we can take any proponents of systemd seriously, either.

Since Debian's not going to protect me from this svchost-cum-kitchen-sink abortion after all, looks like we're going to FreeBSD!

Funny, that's my boilerplate response to GNOME these days.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Have you replaced your car because it doesn't chop carrots, yet? The init system didn't NEED to deal with the network settings, because it's a fucking init system, not a network manager.

Where the hell did this whole kitchen sinking mess come from?

Emphasis mine. No one else stopped them. There's a world of difference.

Saying that "monolithic" means "single binary" or any of the other paraphrasings pretty much disqualifies anyone using that (incorrect) handwave from taking part in any real discussion of technical merits/flaws of the system. It's a double whammy of "don't know what the hell you're talking about", and "don't care to learn better, because you have brand loyalty to uphold."

Unfortunately, there's too many of them on both sides to let the grownups talk.

They knew that Haselton's horrible grasp of statistics would prompt the nerds to click frantically to point out what a tool he is.