Taryn

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Joined May 14, 2009 at 05:16PM EDT


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Yahoo! Board is buying Tumblr. Discuss.

It’s funny, seeing all these people trying to calm the masses with the promise of “independence”, and even funnier that people are falling for it. Just months after Google’s acquisition and subsequent promise to operate as a separate business of Motorola Mobility, Google began a spree of massive changes to the multi-million user company. Including large restructuring of the company, laying off over 30% of all employees, and even selling about a fifth of the entire company. Don’t think Yahoo! is the same?...

Boston Marathon Explosion

First of all, are you implying that a conspiracy involving the CIA is completely out of the question? That would be a very ignorant thing to say. Secondly, comedy is tragedy. All tragic events, regardless of time passed or bloodshed, i.e., a chicken getting run over while crossing the road to the holocaust, will eventually and always be joked about, whether you are offended by it or not. While it’s not a particularly good thing, it is the basis of almost all comedy, and it is going to happen. Whining on...

New law would make ESRB ratings legally binding.

Still, a good example. The only major retailer I know of that doesn’t require photo ID to buy M-rated games is Best Buy. The only places this bill would possibly “hurt” is off-brand markets such as Game Xchange. As children usually require a parent’s money to purchase these games anyway, I fail to see how this could harm the revenue of the industry or retailers. @Coily SnakeI’ve seen bills just like this appear before, quite a few of them actually, and guess what’s happened to them. All of them struck...

New law would make ESRB ratings legally binding.

I don’t understand, you’re saying that not allowing children to purchase a video game not intended for their age group will hurt retailers? This is like saying that the law that children must have adult supervision (whom must have a photo ID) to watch R-rated content in a cinema hurts movie theaters. It doesn’t.

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