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On Omri Petitte's  News Blips: Blizzard defends always-on Diablo 3, From Dust DRM heads out, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, and more
"Why not do the exact same thing they did with diablo 2; keep online and offline seperate.  They fixed that part of the problem a long time ago. "
Thursday, August 25, 2011
On Dennis Scimeca's  Still not a bad word: "Gamer"
"When I hear the word gamer I think of someone who defines themself by playing videogames.  That is, someone who is really boring."
Saturday, March 19, 2011
On Dan "Shoe" Hsu's  A PAX PSA: Please wash your goddamn hands
""all meat and no veggies is just fine by me. But I don't blame my poor immune system on my lack of vitamin intake"

I ignored everything after you said that.

also: piss is sterile, its only shit that you have to worry about, which is everywhere. "

Monday, March 14, 2011
On Matt Polen's  Smithsonian ends games-as-art debate
"If passage isn't there then it is a failure.  Goddamn best "art" game ever made.  It actually uses the interactivity to express an idea."
Friday, February 18, 2011
On Matt Polen's  Smithsonian ends games-as-art debate
"If passage isn't there then it is a failure.  Goddamn best "art" game ever made.  It actually uses the interactivity to express an idea."
Friday, February 18, 2011
On Jack Wilde's  5 reasons BioShock Infinite should excite you
"@Robert

They were blatant in the original too, its just that fewer people are familiar with the bile that rand spewed than the bile american nationalists spew."

Thursday, February 10, 2011
On Rus McLaughlin's  Games as art: Roger Ebert is right (and very wrong)
"Art is the use of a medium to evoke emotion.  Good art is art that uses its medium to a good effect.  For instance, something like passage is good art because it uses the interactive nature of the game as part of the message.  Similarly bioshock or halflife 2 do with their messages regarding whether you truly have any agency in a videogame.  What needs to stop, is horrible non indemic storytelling in games like MGS where heavy handed use of other mediums (cut scenes) hinders interactivity.

Also on this definition, something like pacman does not fit, the desire to play more/ annoyance at losing/etc is not an emotion.   Not everything is art, there are limits.  Dales example of SF3 falls short in that its the winning/losing that is evoking the crowds reaction, not emotional content of the game.  By that logic, a sport is art too because it evokes a similar reaction.  Games seem to be part sport and part art, going fully in one direction at times."

Monday, February 07, 2011
On Jeff Grubb's  News Blips: Microsoft Banning E-Nazis, A Successful 3D Castlevania, Worldwide World of Warcraft Party, and More
"People who make the argument of the swastikas religious significance tend to be idiots.  The swastika surrounded in red, facing right and tilted slightly represents nazi germany.  If you want to use a swastika that represents jainism or buddhism, then go ahead.  They are clearly distinguishable, by orientation, angle, and clear stylistic differences.  The only people who make the argument for wearing or presenting the nazi swastika are shit stirrers or nazis."
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
On Toby Davis'  9 Questions for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2's Hiroshi Matsuyama
"Looks good, shame the show is dogshit."
Saturday, October 16, 2010
On Siri Karri's  Why Love the Bullet but Hate the Bosom?
"@Daniel

Theres a difference between sexualization and objectification.  Its fine to sexualize a character, to make them attractive or to give them a sexual aspect to their personality.  This can lead to interesting power dynamics in stories.  What isn't fine is objectification, when you make a characters body and sex their only notable factors."

Saturday, October 09, 2010
On Dan "Shoe" Hsu's  15 Games in 15 Minutes
"1 half life 2 + episodes

2 Ocarina of time

3 team fortress 2

4 dwarf fortress

5 portal

6 diablo 2 + expac

7 wow before raiding

8 mario galaxy

9 resident evil 4

10 chrono trigger

11 earthbound

12 soul calibre 2

13 smash bros melee

14 company of heroes

15 heroes of newerth"

Monday, October 04, 2010
On Adam Dorsey's  What Is This? -- Explaining Bayonetta to a Skeptical Girlfriend
"@Bradlyer

Missing the point, dumbass.  The game is exploitation and nothing more.  Sure the combat mechanics are sound, but theres more to a game than that.  The game is a masturbatory representation of women meant to tickle one of the designers' fetishes.

to quote the cracked article linked above: "Sex is part of life, so it should naturally be part of our movies and TV shows and games. But these are the digital equivalent of inflatable sex dolls. It's embarrassing and insulting, not because I'm a staunch feminist, but because I don't like the assumption it's making about me (that I'm an emotionally stunted, sexually frustrated teenage male). It's like even award-winning video games have the sensibility of made-for-Cinemax B movies&quo;"

Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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