He doesn't seem to get that no one accused Microsoft of collapsing as a company, but effectively coasting on previous success. And the thing about coasting, is that it means you had previously built up momentum. The fact that Microsoft kept making money just meant that they had built up a really strong market share. They just didn't do anything beyond what they already had.

It's called Bit.Trip Beat and it's great.

There's a difference between anti-intellectualism and anti-institutionalism.

Likewise. Dark Knight was good, but overlong, with too many unnecessary bits, and too much pretension. Iron Man was a more cohesive experience.

None of this says that you're a good programmer, it just says that you're a good marketer.

I enjoyed Travian until I discovered it's possible to completely paralyze someone by destroying their farms, so that it's completely impossible for them to take any actions or recover at all. Then you just become a mining/logging subsidiary of whoever is nearby.

A statement that somehow the message of art 'degrades' as it reaches more people is something I assumed to hear from some art snob complaining about reproductions of the Mona Lisa, not about a video game starring Mario. The whole notion is insanely elitist, and I'm frankly flabbergasted that someone saw fit to print it.

Especially considering that they got the whole idea wrong - it's only a demo mode that shows you how to beat a section. In order to progress through the game, you still have to play it yourself!

If Rockstar managed to release San Andreas on the Playstation 2, a piece of hardware which was inferior to the gamecube, let alone the Wii, then I somehow doubt it's impossible to release an open world style game on the Wii. This basically just sounds like they don't really know what they're doing, and are wasting processor cycles on things they really don't need.

Linux on the desktop is dead. Long live Linux on the desktop.

And people wonder why the year of Linux on the desktop never comes.

It's because all the linux geeks waste their time on stupid shit instead of actual useful things.

That money was only in the hands of a fairly small amount of plantation owners, though. The large majority of residents were poor white farmers.

Just in case you're not just joking:

Kindling is the word you're thinking of. Kindle is the verb, of starting a flame, or an emotion. Which seems fairly appropriate.