I'm kinda like this, too. Playing a game in a way I'd like to play it is better than having to play in the way someone else wants me to. Cheat devices have really made games much more enjoyable simply because I can choose the elements that I enjoy and leave out the ones I don't enjoy. If the developers start including…

It would have been easier if he hadn't created that something in the first place. Guess it's a lessen learned for everyone.

The extended version of the quote changes nothing. The connection's still there. I'm not one of those who's unable to read between the lines. Perhaps the intent wasn't there when he said it, but that's how people will interpret it. He has misspoken. Calling it "a joy" to control a real war machine is as inappropriate…

If the Taliban believe the earth isn't flat, would you agree with them? I would. Don't commit the ad hominem fallacy.

The connection is actually closer than you think. He did say it was "a joy" for him and he "loved playing" blahblah... Could that be taken to mean it's a joy to fly the Apache? Or that he also loved playing on the Apache? I think so, and I think that's a really inappropriate comment.

I'm not suggesting difference is a bad thing, just doubting the science behind that claim. Thinking differently because of biological sex is not a very intuitive concept. If you say the average woman is shorter than the male counterpart, then that's more intuitive. But it seems to me everyone that has a normal brain…

Women and men "think differently" in what ways? And why do you presume that is? Most male students don't choose CS, do men "think differently" than men, too?

I don't think the author was thinking "sexism" in that broader context, otherwise she wouldn't have limited its use to strictly within "video games". But yeah, the much more pervasive, cultural bias on gender roles that discourages more women from even considering Computer Science as a viable option for themselves is…

Same here. I always thought that's a system-wide feature, like, if you press a button, the console would simply switch the display mode from TV->Pad. This is the first time I've heard that it's not the case.

The person in the 2nd example was not doing something 'bad' and did not deserve to be fired. He was putting the public's best interests before the best interests of a for-profit organisation, by giving his honest advice to people. What he did was noble, actually, he's what we call a 'whistle blower'.

That's all the better, then. Hundreds of people, instead of just 20 people, can benefit from the act of sharing. Sharing is a form of caring. I agree with the person who said pirates are an egalitarian entity. They are the ones who also subscribe to the "help out anyone in need" and "leave no one behind" philosophy in…

I also get the impression that it seems more socially "acceptable" for a white girl to be paired with a girl from a different race in the lesbian community, than it is for any of the racial minorities to be paired with someone from a different racial minority. So while white heterosexual guys may look like they could…

I thought Monster Hunter Tri was pretty popular.

I just can't get over how these people apparently changed their minds/answers just because they had done a totally unrelated activity in between. I'm imagining a bunch of people who had said one thing just half an hour ago, and who were now all starting to say something else. Did you hire professional politicians as…

Thanks for the info. My own understanding of empathy is, to empathize is to turn the feelings of others into one's own feelings, so it's inherently an introverting activity to empathize in which the person introverts external stimuli. It seems strange to me that people would answer those questions differently before…

Just curious, how did you measure "empathy" of the participants?

Those 'wars' in the US were not exactly comparable to the kind of true foreign invasions and occupations that many other countries have suffered, both in scale and in nature. Unless, you were speaking from the perspectives of the native Americans. The European colonists did have it easy, and their 'wars' seemed almost…

Just what exactly are you getting at? Are you trying to insult Jason Schreier for not being a "real journalist" (What the heck does that even mean?) in an attempt to bully him into submitting to your morality?

"Where I live, in sweden, the nationalists have been so beaten into a pulp that you cant even say the word immigrant without being branded a racist."

The apparent calmness in the Japanese 'protest' compared to the Chinese protests is a direct result of the fact that those disputed islands are currently under Japanese CONTROL. When you don't feel like you're the victim, but you're just 'protesting' other people who do feel victimized by your actions, of course you…