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Comment Re:"Our worst mistake was PvP" (Score 1) 187

Blizzard's design staff recently, famously lamented: "Our worst mistake was PvP"

Generally when you put quotation marks around a phrase it's meant to signify that someone actually said those words. You're referencing WarCry's 2009 interview with Rob Pardo, wherein he expresses his feeling that adding arenas was their biggest mistake. However, it's not because arenas were a bad idea, but because he felt it was tacked-on.

Blizzard these days is heavy into e-sports, which is why Diablo 3 will have PvP, and why they'll focus as much energy as they need in order to make it competitive.

Comment Re:To immediately Godwin the poll... (Score 1) 1270

That Hitler hasn't been killed by timetravelers, is generally considered proof that time-travelling will never be possible, or that it will turn out that killing Hitler is an even worse idea that letting him kill himself. So if given the choice of time-traveling: Don't kill Hitler...(??)

I like to go further and say simply that the universe exists is proof that travelling backwards through an already-existing timeline is impossible. Given infinite time, at some point a time traveler would discover a means to destroy/prevent the creation of the universe and do so.

Comment Re:Nothing compared to what they did before... (Score 1) 483

I would think that the "teachbook" name was chosen on purpose to be "facebook for teachers/teaching".

What are you quoting? That phrase is mentioned nowhere on teachbook.com. In fact the only results that show up in a search for "site:teachbook.com facebook" are links to "share this on facebook", just like every other website on the internet. In addition the site looks absolutely nothing like Facebook. They don't even use the color blue for pete's sake. No brand confusion possible. This is bullying.

Comment Re:Can it wait? (Score 1) 142

But who knows, 300 and Watchmen were pretty faithful adaptations and maybe we won't have Johnny Fucking Depp or Robert Downey Jr playing Commander Shepard.

I don't understand why discussions of the movie always come around to who should play Shepard. The only way this movie can be faithful to the Mass Effect universe is if it's not about Shepard. The crux of the entire series is that Shepard looks and acts differently in the hands of each player. The universe is so deep and there are so many historical events that could be portrayed, it would be a shame to simply remake any part of the games.

But, this is Hollywood, and the fact that Drew Karpyshyn's name is nowhere to be found in the article dims my hope.

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