I think a large part of the problem with these sorts of injuries may be that we are performing actions in response to stimuli that don't actually exist in our physical environment.

@thebodypopper: I would say that the people of the region that introduced coke to the world have a right to use the word to refer to all sodas.

@AureateFlux: Unless, of course, you're not counting the Las Plagas zombies as zombies?

@ComplicitOwl: Pretty sure I'm counting 6 zombies there, chief.

@Sepharih: Think of it this way: it takes very precise math to make convincing, fake mistakes. But it takes very imprecise math to make actual, real mistakes.

@Shai_Hulud: No kidding, the only thing the Earth has over any other object in the system is its lush biosphere.

For Christmas 1997, I asked for X-Wing. I'd looked at the games at Comp-USA and that's the one I wanted.

@Sugoi: Well, to be fair, the Borgia in real life really were exceptionally corrupt and just generally really screwed up.

@Vecha: Kotaku Friends work like the Stock Market: they try soooo hard to hide the wire there...

@Taggart6: it does, in significantly larger quantity. Check out the "Tron" tab on the linked page for the other Tron controllers.

@killakoopa: A few linguistic markers here and there made even clearer by one gender-specific pronoun. ;)

@killakoopa: My extensive experience with online cultural interactions suggests this argument would have gone very differently had people picked up on the fact that you're a female.

@VicariousShaner: This is... not true. I won't argue that the player is not better off for having played ME1, but it certainly wasn't a REQUIREMENT.

@tinfoil5: I was thinking it's a good thing it's NOT a Portal sentry, or they might get hapless gamers stuck in conversational loops with them.

@skt.smth: at least ONE person in this conversation knows how to spell his Latin.

@John-Hamptonshire: Well, with your definition, I don't think it's possible to have a "Mario reboot."

@John-Hamptonshire: psssst... every Mario game is a reboot. Every Zelda game... is a reboot.

Still getting that pleasant cyberpunk feeling from this. Still loving the renaissance-inspired couture. And now we've a pretty lofty promise of intrigue and complexity in the story department.

This would be deeply shameful, except for the fact that it's an indication of the mainstreaming of gaming in popular culture.

@Chris Overstreet: You don't really have to worry, since he's openly homosexual. But if there's a man any self-respecting straight male geek would consider sexing, I guess it'd be NPH... or Nathan Fillion