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There was a reason why I edited that comment-- I left it up because I'd already written it, and it's a little rude to remove it entirely, in case someone was already responding to my overly strong statement. Your timestamp says that you should have seen my edited statement, though, not just the original one...? Maybe you didn't read it.
What I said in my edit was basically that "racism will never go away, but th...
Except that so many games have a love story in them. A video game character doesn't need to have a sexuality? That only seems to work if games have no story, not even a booklet story. If you really don't like it because games shouldn't include sexuality, then do you specifically not buy Final Fantasy because it has a romance? Sexuality is a part of a lot of stories, like it or not, and excluding one sexuality while pandering to another isn't what a healthy, compassionate and non-phobic group ...
Sounds like a good idea to me. The consumer doesn't get burned so long as they're willing to report who sold it to them. And frankly, if I got sold some software thinking it was legit when it wasn't, well, I'd be more than willing to report them...
Games cost a lot of money to make, and if you don't have that money, you can't get in. A black person should start a game company to make games about black people? Hell, yeah, that'd be awesome! But I don't have funding to give him/her, do you? And if the publishers say, yeah, but we're white, and we only want games made about white people, that's okay too?
We live in an imperfect society, and we should work to make it better. I don't think we should use society's imperfections t...
Whaaaaaa... he's a fan of the series with the rock uterus C-section by sparkly vampire teeth, while the werewolf ex-boyfriend falls instantly in love with the baby?
Oh, sorry, spoiler alert.
Now I feel like MGS must be way more messed up than I'd ever thought possible. Did I miss Sunny being Otacon and Emma's love child implanted in Olga by a robot version of Big Mama?
Yes. If this is failure, I wish I would fail more often.
An XBox Live manager says the 360 has the best games. Wow.
I'll bet we could get a follow up article where some Sony or Nintendo manager disagrees.
Wait. It would have been better if he'd killed a young woman who'd still had her husband alive...? (Or a single man, for that matter? It's just a little silly to single out the fact that she was old and widowed.)
He's mentally ill. Personally, I don't think he deserves death. I think he needs far better help than he's had. But that's me coming with my background of a country without the death penalty for some very good reasons...
Yeah. Especially for an article about this topic, it's a stupid picture. I know it's in the article too, but it's still dumb.
MGS is awesome (better than SC, IMO), but it's really not the same experience at all...
Hm. I think movies can have multiple focuses. Milk is about politics and gay rights, and also about one man's life. From the text, this seems to be about this woman, and about the art she was into, which happens to have been games...
Who are they? I'd probably have been in their target market in '95 and I've still never heard of their games...
It's nice that the video game industry is getting movies made about it, I guess, but it would have been more interesting to see something about someone we'd actually know. Surely they could have found someone more recognizable...
Hm. I tend to think of Moore's Law as the more encompassing one that, according to Wikipedia, is really Kurtzweil et al's misappropriation. Funny, that.
Meh. It's not the first time they've screwed up, and it won't be the last. As a long time Mac user, I've always (well, since the internet meant I had the possibility of immediate upgrades, that is) waited a week before any Apple upgrade... let other people find the real-world bugs that are missed by testing.
Software isn't perfect, testers aren't perfect. It's probably why there are always those "don't use this software as part of a nuclear facility" tiny legal print st...
I've had a lot of programs that required me to install Adobe updates before it'd do the real software. I've always hated that, but it's not just Sony...
All the other points seem disturbingly bad, though.
Um. So, the Sony one has a microphone and, through software, can scan in anything (just like the Natal). Sony's has shown some hardware that they've said isn't final, and the Natal has shown some some huge boxy things that clearly aren't going to be final. So, he's completely wrong about the Sony MC device. I'm guessing he's completely wrong about the Wii's, too, so his whole article might as well be ignored completely...
Sometimes it's really difficult to buy things legally, because of restrictions that are put around getting various content. The show you want to watch isn't out on DVD. Why do people in one country have to wait when people another are watching it today on TV? Impatience means you can't buy the original, but it'd be nice if you could pay them something...
"And why would people, especially pirates, want to donate money to some stranger who can't even reveal the name of the com...
"Nintendo created the Wii as a result of the gaming industry shrinking by only catering to the 18-35 year old male demographic."
No-- they created it because Sony and MS had already won the fanboy hearts and minds of that demo, and they needed a new target if they were going to sell this generation. Nintendo was going to have a tough sell to the 18-35 yo males with an upgraded Cube, so instead they went, let's see about selling this primarily to people who haven't playe...
Too bad I didn't reply to this earlier, so now, no one will see it, but... I'll still say something! Someone might see this at some point. And I'll probably miss their reply and on and on... well, anyways.
What I'm saying is that I think the cost of the R&D outweighs what they can make off of it, given that it's (apparently) difficult to do, and it would have a limited life time and isn't selling so well that no one can afford to ignore it. The up front costs seem to be too h...
"they disregarded that high incidence of about rape in USA and Canada, I can't understand that.
these countries are severely restricted to about SEX. isn't it?"
They aren't disregarding the high incidence of rape in the USA and Canada. They're saying it's enough of a problem that they think we shouldn't allow it to be further normalized-- in any country-- by fantasy rape games. I'm not entirely sure I agree with them that this means these kinds of games should be ...