Recent content by CaptainStupid

You're calling me an idiot? You can't form a coherent sentence. If it makes me a "softy" to point out that graphic violence against children breaks one of the most basic rules, does watching a child get butchered make you "hard"? In Left 4 Dead, how many child characters are fair game for...

Too bad this "trailer" (actually a "preview" because it precedes, rather than follows, the release of this game) crosses the line from entertainment to exploitation by graphically depicting violence against a child. In a movie or TV show, a child can fairly be the subject of a murder...

What a childish question.

Incomprehensible to me is the lack of criticism aimed at Homefront. That story is ludicrous, demonizing, and insulting to intelligence. I have searched in vain for someone from The Escapist, GameSpot, IGN, PC Gamer, X-Play, CVG, etc., to ask an obvious rhetorical question: How is North Korea, a...

"Because it's fiction" is another excuse. Anyone who wants to make a game about sexually molesting children could say, "Because it's fiction." No, it would be lousy, stupid, oblivious fiction. There are no absolutes. "It's just a game" or "Because it's fiction" does not justify everything. A...

Why is no game journalist willing to question the absurd plot of Homefront? Back in the 1980s, Red Dawn was reasonable fiction because the fear of Soviet aggression was real, even if the danger of Russian invasion was remote. But now North Koreans are starving, with an entire generation...

Yes, but creating a new world that rivals all those Lord of the Rings ripoffs requres time and effort. Developers are intellectually lazy, or under the pressure of deadlines, which makes the ripoff route an obvious path to choose. Human nature does not change (pick the path of least resistance)...

Stoners are depicted as being stupid because no one gets stoned and then records a video of themselves doing something brilliant. The word "stoner" does not mean "intellectual achiever". Here's another juvenile question: Why is Hitler typically depicted as evil?

I'm not in danger of becoming disillusioned with Steam in the future, because I'm disgusted with them now. Sure, their sale prices are great, but their customer service seems more like passive aggression. Where's the instruction manual for my new game? "Not our problem," says Steam. Many...

A "moneywall"? So that's what marketing scum call unbridled greed these days. Their capacity for strangling the English language knows no bounds. Just watch, "moneywall" will become the next popular weasel word, repeated everywhere by herds of media parrots who prefer not to think. Kind of like...