If people are going to go to the Walmart to buy new games anyway, why wouldn't the indie store them as well? Even if the prices are a little higher, wouldn't the convenience of not having to go somewhere else make up for it?

They've told us it doesn't make up for it. The stores just walk down to the Wal-Mart themselves to pick up a couple copies of Halo 3 or whatever rather than actually working with a games distributor like Jack of All Games or whoever. They just can't compete on new games; that's why they do used, retro, and host tournaments and so forth.

Yeah, really. It was a real bandwagon of righteous indignation.

I understand your sentiment, but if you think that this wouldn't occur in many communities that have a large base of users, you are off base. I don't just mean places like 4chan- have you ever read comments on Youtube videos?

To be frank I often surprise myself with the tastelessness of my own comments on Youtube, when I bother to make one there.

I don't really see how this would define how people see the company behind Justin.tv at all. You would have to find a pretty delusional person to claim that IRC had its reputation sullied by Brandon Vedas when he did the same thing a few years ago.

He's not talking about the incident. He's talking about the CEO's bad response, and the deafening silence since.

He >:-0.

And yes, I was not referring to the actual incident, but rather the response.

I downvoted this comment, thinking it was just a silly remark, but now I realize that it's a reference to the Brandon Vedas death:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Vedas

Which doesn't make it any less disrespectful.

So what? Disrespect is at the heart of much great humour.

Feel free to crack jokes at the next funeral you attend then. I'm sure the other attendees will be highly amused.

More to the heart of much great humour is timing.

Is HackerNews a funeral now?

Or are you suggesting that this thread is that hapless teenager's virtual burial place?

I'm suggesting that joking about a person's death needs to be considered against the nature of that death and the current environment.

It's very likely that the family of that kid will happen upon this forum and that post in the next little while, and I think as a community it would be nice if they weren't met with the same idiotic comments that they'll find on the bodybuilding site.

It's the same thing as making jokes about 9/11 victims on 9/12, but there's no hard and fast rule. Such is the case with pretty much every social nicety.

troll post, but you gave me a phrase that let me google a similar case I was trying to find, so: thanks.

Protip: people don't go to ESPN, Yahoo, or other sites just for stats.

StatSheet isn't only about stats. There are AP articles & photos, personalization features, discussion forums, etc. Soon users will be able to write articles too.

It should be just about stats. You can't take on those three on everything.

You do stats much better than they do. Focus.

Great point Joel! Stats are definitely my bread and butter.

How is this taking on anyone?

This looks like linkbait.

I'm always amazed how many people buy into that idea- do you really think that Reagan knew all along that it was a ploy to run the Soviet economy into the ground? SDI was a huge wealth transfer to the defense industry. The fall of the Soviet Union (if indeed you see that as a bad thing) had very little to do with a need to increase their military spending to keep par with Reagan.

These books are only slightly better than telling someone to read Who Moved My Cheese or Good to Great.

You should read great books because you want a different perspective and will hopefully be entertained; don't read a book because you think it will make you a better entrepreneur.

The organization by relevance is interesting, but through some test searches I did, the more obscure the search, the less this helps. Basically, for something with a Wikipedia/Facebook/Myspace/official site it looks nice. However, for something less known or employing more vague terms, the results page look like I mistyped a url and ended up on a page parked for typosquatting.