So I noticed there's yet another new .hack show on Netflix. Remembering this series all the way back from high school, I decided to check out the first episode, out of idle curiosity. It's a pretty cool premise: A neural-interface MMORPG that's massively popular turns out to have a dark secret in its programming, and upon being attacked by a mysterious enemy in the game, players go into comas in real life.

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Every time Merriwether Williams writes an episode, I die a little inside.

Okay, that's a little harsh. Let me elaborate.

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In the off chance anyone reading this is considering purchasing Battlefield 4, DON'T. It has nothing to do with the gameplay, mind you - that's actually fairly solid. No, the problem with this game is that in all my life, I have NEVER seen a professionally released title so buggy. Fully updated drivers, repaired installations, correct system locale settings, correct DirectX version... and it loads multiplayer matches successfully MAYBE ten percent of the time. I would like to believe that the

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I have to write this down. This is an awful place to post this, but where else am I going to put it? It's the sort of thing no one wants to hear, and no one can do anything about, in any event. But I think about it a lot.

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