The only auto maker you can fuck back.

Young college fresh-outs who are also making noise and want to be near bars and action. Then you get old, and noise makes your head hurt, and you realize your neighbors are huge dicks. Then you want to move to the 'burbs.

But even the suburbs are a compromise, the US is, comparatively, mostly empty space. Yet these companies all congregate in very small, very overpriced regions. There's plenty of cheap land almost anywhere else in the country, but they cluster up. I'd rather move somewhere that I can get a few acres and build my minimansion with big walls and, for the few hours a day I'm not at work, forget the rest of the world exists.

I got past my Apple hater issue because Apple turned itself around and started making a good product. It's not wart free, the app store is bullshit, their relationship with other evil corporations (AT&T to name one) makes me not trust them. But the product is very good.

At no point in the history of Microsoft has the quality of their product exceeded the horrifying things they CONTINUE to do. I cannot think of a single thing they make that I would buy because I actually want it, rather than because (for one reason or another) I have to have it.

Sounds like gambling to me.

if I was unemployed I would be playing games 16 hours a day again.

Nah you wouldn't. You'd be looking for a job and stressing over it. Life moves on. The onyl way you could return to your youth is if you had tons of cash and could quit for aw hile.

Yet most of us were causing death and destruction on human beings in games when we were 6. Unless you have a history of murder, all these "it's ok if they're zombies/robots/fantasy" posts are kind of silly and propagating a concept I wish would just die already.

Star Control 2

Nothing has ever been made quite like it since, including, and especially sequels that use that name.

For the record, Molten Core can be run in under 10 minutes with one person today. It is the only raid that married parents on a budget can afford.

Women in sports get a lot of attention, but usually the wrong kind. Men in sports have a very high level of expectations placed on them, are subject to constant abuse when they don't perform, and are ultimately fired and no one sheds a tear. They rise and fall most significantly, with their performance on the field.

Women in sports, if they play well but are not attractive, get very little attention or respect. If they are attractive, it doesn't matter if they play well or not, they get a lot of attention and discussion over the parts of their athleticism that have nothing to do with their sport. Golf and Tennis are most well known for this, the best women players are all but ignored, but occasionally a hottie gets out there and she gets tons of press in spite of weak play.

Regardless, the dictionary definition of "sport" does include eSports, as well as Hunting, Fishing, Bowling and even Golf. eSports, to me, seems to fit a second meaning of sport, i.e. "mockery", better than any of the other definitions, but that's the eye of the beholder part.

Of course most sports playing in a "sporting" way, tend to have totally lost the original definition of the word "sport", that is to cause mirth and enjoyment. Very few competitive sports do that, most of the time. I find the people who play them are there for the 5% of the time something awesome happens, and suffer the other 95%.

I think that's a generalization that's dangerous, particularly when this is done based on percentage of a self-selecting subset of a population. I know very few grown men who play CoD or that ilk, and actively hate those games and the people who play them (and generalize as such!). I think there's even a brogaming hate website out there or two. Similarly Angry Birds didn't get popular from women alone, it's a pretty popular game. So what's the breakdown?

The statistics are this, 47% of gamers are female, 60% of female gamers are more or less exclusive mobile gamers. That leaves quite a large population of women on consoles and PCs. Such that 30% of the gaming population is female and playing on platforms that are eSports friendly. They are either not playing those games, they are playing but not competitively, or they are concealing their gender. Given that black and middle eastern men are definitely also playing games, but are not identifying, may suggest that concealing ones background is advantageous in the eSports arena.

This isn't surprising, competition tends to bring out the absolute worst in personalities. Look at football, in 2014 a guy admits to being gay, brouhaha ensues. Certainly there are other gay men in football, but they're on the DL.

Hunting is considered a sport, but you normally can't lose (I haven't seen a deer with a rifle yet). Even hunting game that can hunt back, the game plays with a pretty heavy handicap. Generally you either win, or you drink beer in the woods for a few hours and go home, which maybe is also a win.

Fishing is considered a sport, very similar to hunting. The odds are stacked heavily in your favor.

Hang-gliding and skydiving are considered sports, but there's no competition whatever. I suppose winning is defined as landing softly enough to live.

What is a "sport" is in the eye of the beholder.

eSports is like regular sports in that it is dumb. eSports is unlike regular sports in that you cannot accidentally get fit playing them. That sums up [e]Sports. Women here are demonstrating their vastly superior intellect by ignoring eSports in droves.

I don't know, I use Android because I must, but the iPhone and iPad seem like better products in most measurable ways. However, as Apple has always done, there are a few big gotchas. Price, closed software market, and Apple deciding what kind of apps are/are not acceptable for me. Those last two are showstoppers, I can overlook price for a better product.

I won't ignore that social factors are a big factor in Apple purchases, that's certainly true and Apple definitely uses it to their advantage.

But going back to the original point, in spite of having the better product, the cool/social/hip crowd represents the smaller share of the market. A product does not need, and in some ways may benefit from not having, that market segment.

Use it as a reminder that you are almost always being recorded in public. I was bored at the mall, waiting for my wife to do whatever it is one does in curio stores and started counting cameras. I gave up in the low double digits when i started seeing very subtle cameras and realized for every one I saw, there was another one I had initially missed.

Glassholes are your friend, they remind you that big brother is always watching.