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The weirdest part of this whole thing to me is the assumption that any message that is anti-capitalist is inherently bad. At the start they didn't even say that the message was bad. Just that it was. It was assumed that anti-capitalist was being pejoratively used to mean 'bad' and no-one even...

It's a fad. That's just the way that it is. I remember in my last year of school (2003/04) there was a huge fad going around for a really similar helicopter based game. Swear to god, hundreds of kids just started playing it in the computer labs. Thousands of other flash games available, but...

Truth is that fantasy has a whole lot less space for innovation than people seem to think it does. Even if someone can genuinely make stuff better, it's hard to say if anyone will actually notice. That's a huge problem, and it's partially why I've always stayed a thousand miles away from all...

Longevity in an MMO is more about people than it is about the game itself. I played Eve for a very nearly a decade (2003 to 2013) and throughout that time what kept me coming back was that I liked the people I was hanging around with. Eve is a seriously punishing game that seems to exist...

Yeah it's extremely fashionable at the moment to say that if you enjoy any movie based around fighting then you're stupid, even if its a really old movie made in a time way before it could be part of the 'direct-to-dvd with Jason Staythem' style of action film making that has been around for the...

The whole friendzone thing is complex. For the most part it really is the product of possessive people with pretty bad social skills who don't really know what romance is, but are convinced that hanging around in the peripheries of someone's life might at some point create it. On the flip...

I have to agree. Most of the other things posted here were games that were either parts of extremely long running series that had been out of gas for the better part of a decade by the point, making whatever game people picked out to be simply the culmination of a lot of badness. Final...

The ones that stick out in my memory to this day are (in no particular order): Pusher - It's wonderfully creepy and the guy acts it really well. No so good on his second time through, but still. Great concept, really well done. Squeeze - Another great creepy villain, very unlike the kind...

Funny thing is that Dark Souls has become a bit of a victim of its own success. There's a LOT of gamers out there (me included) who have heard that Dark Souls is extremely challenging and want to take a shot at completing that challenge. Problem is that it was designed for people who are either...

Honestly the DRM conundrum is not something that is going to be solved quickly. For the developers of Miner Wars (which looks to be a well developed game, above what you normally expect from an indie title) I imagine that they want to push it through as many platforms as possible, maybe even a...

The bible doesn't have any legal authority, but people who follow the book are a pretty substantial group in a representative democracy, and while their views are handed down to them by their god, its still their views, and the people who represent them lobby for those views. Essentially...

In a slightly backwards way any kind of official boycott by anyone would hurt the gay-marriage cause. Firstly, because its such a tiny and petty reason to whip up any kind of frenzy over. I mean, if the guy said 'fags will burn in hell and my business will never ever employ any gays and one...

Well again, it depends on what groups you look at. The gender-oriented feminists certainly never would stand up for men pretty much on principal that they deserve whatever they get. On the other hand very many libertarian and egalitarian groups have stood along side grous campaigning for...

I'd wager a decent amount that its because women are more likely to admit to being unhappy than men. Just a guess, but I'd shoot for that. Also, while your whole post was generally pretty good.... Be REAL careful about using any statistics about rape. Put simply, none of the studies are...

That would depends who you ask to be honest. Certainly within academia most high profile people who self-identify as feminists have generally moved into the man-hating everything-is-rape form, mainly because its a LOT easier to get paid for being violently against an imagined problem than...