"Why do you think programs like Punkbuster were created? Because hacking was rampant. To a point that the devs knew that it was ruining the experience." As I believe there have also been articles here on kotaku within the last two weeks that playstation and xbox are banning even more people for modded consoles due to…

Where you do currently sell and trade your pc games in at. I wasn't aware such a place existed legally.

I agree, it is more of a challenge. It's interesting that folks seem to have a hard time understanding a pragmatic over all "best" weapon as opposed to "fun or challenging."

Correct, "Even if she, a "gaming professional", didn't prefer Social/Facebook games over shooters, she'd be exception, not the rule." Hence my point. That they are the exception, and thus poorly generalized with the norm.

As I said, I agree that female gamers gravitate to the social games. But I don't think that is a direct correlation to those females who decide to make a career out of gaming. Those are generally the ones who are not the social gamers. In fact, I would go out on a limb and say that Patricia is the first female I've…

I agree that women are the larger portion of social gamers. What I was referring to as a poor generalization is that you'd automatically lump an a gaming journalist in with that statistic. Sadly, Patricia simply doesn't make a good a good example to support my case on this =P

I'm beginning to wonder if Patricia is a real person or just a pseudonym that the other people use to post articles to get views with. Between the hypocrisy in the posts we've seen today and now this I have to question if their goal is to find a new core demographic or if we're just being trolled.

I may not like her writing, or this article, in fact I called her out on being a hypocrite earlier today. But I think this is a poor generalization.

If it's a baby that young, and left unattended until 2pm in the afternoon, that's negligence. They could get her on that alone. Regardless of what she did or didn't know if the father's act.

I guess with zombies, it rules out the whole "liking to be bit" thing. Damn.

Says the person who used the picture attached to advertise her article yesterday? I get that you're arguing context usage, but at the same time as you said, "Really, there's no shortage of possible ways to sell this game." Which also goes for slapdash journalism.

You're completely correct. I think it easier to equate it to this. Gaming Culture is in large, the internet. Twitter is a large part of the internet for a great many people. So the abuse of said outlet is directly relational to the interests of our culture.

Sure is. I really wish schools would focus on "Deductive Reasoning and Critical Thinking" skills instead of relying on just math courses for this so people might actually pay attention and develop a solid ability to "reason."

To be fair, I don't think the article itself is lacking in taste. It's what the individual that the article is about did that is lacking in taste. But I totally agree, skipping articles is always an option.

Ultimately, you could use the whole Iran rebellions, Libya, Egypt, Middle east uses of Twitter as an outlet for "requesting help/informing people of danger" as a pretty strong counter.

First off let me say, I feel you on this "but."

This is where context comes into play, and you notice the person says "I." Indicating what they themselves would do, not instead being instructions of what that individual should do, in japan.

I think they stopped making those after their host and "expert military analyst/green beret" was defrauded as not being a green beret.

No, it was primarily a right and left click combo game. You could swap to other characters and control them, but it wasn't "real time" combat as you'd think of it for DA:O, NWN, etc.

Really, the are "spokesmen." They are supposed to lead by example and exemplify the qualities that the company wants in their community.