I think it just means that in reality, science hasn't got all the right answers, all of the time, and science should be treated, as it was always intended, with a grain of salt.

Unfortunately, with that grain of salt, the ice melted faster.

Doctors, lawyers and teachers don't build things. Engineers do and often have to pick up the past work of others. Ask a carpenter, plumber or electrician what they think of other people's past work. You'll find similar calls of idiocy.

"At times, his average play session would persist for over 11 hours, crippling his life and ability to function."

Actually it's not "at times" it was all the time. 11 hours every single day for 5 years = 20,000 hours.

The entire game is not capped. It's been that way since beta started. The framerate cap variables have also been published from shortly after the beta came out.

Why Blizzard doesn't cap their games at 60fps (or hell 120fps if they think 60 is too low for some reason) I don't know. There's really no reason to render frames faster than that, even if you can.

"I'm somewhat curious about why we got mentioned myself. I mean, I know us Canadians love any acknowledgment that the rest of the world remembers we exist above the states but really? Is it because we're stereotypically cold?"

It's because TFA was posted on a Canadian news website.

Same applies to the anti-GM-food people who try to get the public into a panic by suggesting that GM food will make them sick or whatever, when the true agenda of the people who started the anti-GM movement is simply a far-left anti-corporate one. The misinformation they spread about GM foods is just as bad, if not worse, than the lack of information about which products are and aren't genetically modified.

That said, Monsanto is a bunch of assholes because they sue farmers for doing what farmers are supposed to do.

Some people who are anti-GM are really just anti-Monsanto, because let's face it, a majority of GM crops come from Monsanto. Monsanto has destroyed family farming, destroyed everything that farmers have worked for forever, and replaced it with corporate farming under threat of lawsuits. I want to support sustainability in local farming where farmers can keep their seeds without the threat of being sued by Monsanto. I'm not against GM crops, I'm against GM crop lawsuits by the likes of Monsanto.

"Everyone who has accomplished more than me in a game has no life. Everyone who has accomplished less is a noob."

"They just don't seem to enjoy it the way they did in Boxer's day. So maybe these camps are killing things."

Boxer was making $300k/year at the time playing SC. I'm sure he enjoyed that quite a bit. Don't be fooled, the top Korean players in SC make a ton of money from sponsorships. That's why people go to these camps.

"Without F/E/V I feel like I'm subject to somebody's vision of "clean minimalist design" where they thought they knew what was best for the user. For cryin' out loud, if I wanted to use a Mac I'd already be using one."

FWIW, the Mac version of Chrome *does* have File/Edit/View still in the menubar (working as expected), and does not hide http:/// or in any other way mangle your copying of urls.

Google makes an extension to do this in gDocs for just this purpose.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhgmkedmbmedengocbn

" Blizzard pledged "never again" but somehow I doubt that they'll stick to that pledge if it threatens them with any real opportunity costs."

You're overreacting. Blizz did stick to this pledge and there is nothing to point to the fact that they won't here. My Mac client patched just fine, so did a friend's. Do they have bugs to iron out in the mac client? Sure, but patching issues aren't a huge deal. They have 3 months to fix them. There were patching issues in the Windows client earlier as well, these got sorted out. I see nothing in the Mac beta that makes me think they won't reach launch on time.

"and reading the beta forums one is left with impression that there are still severe balance issues between races."

People tend to shout "imba" when they lose and can't figure out a proper counter. The problem with balancing a game like SC is that so much of the actual game balance comes out in the metagame, and this takes time. SC:BW hasn't been changed in, what, 7 years? And yet the way the game is played today is totally different than 7 years ago. What was once thought was OP is now not a big deal, people figured out how to stop it. If you keep mucking with units and balance, you never have the opportunity to see if the player base will "learn" how to counter challenges on its own.

John almost bit it at the end as well, though not because of power. I watched it live on this web stream. With about 500k left he took a bathroom break. He had racked up a ton of free ships, so it wasn't a big deal. Or, it didn't *seem* like a big deal. Having sacrificed maybe 10 ships on the bathroom break, he came back and was not on his game. He kept dying to little errors. When he was 300k from the record, about 58 hours into his play session, he was down to only two ships left. It was fairly tense in the chat room as the speed at which he was losing ships was faster than him getting free ones (you get a free ship every 10k). It looked very possible that he may end up losing this game right at the end and not reaching the record.

Thankfully at that point he went on a tear, racked up another 5 or 6 ships and kept it at about that for the rest of the game. As soon as he passed the mark he was done. Killed a few asteroids but basically just let it kill him until game over.

One interview actually got ended when the interviewer told me that I was a fossil and too behind the times to be part of their company because I didn't have accounts.

Whether you know it or not, this person did you a favor.

As a ham, the FCC already has all my information. So for me personally, it's not that big of a deal.