Aside from his self-defeating appeal to God for justification and denigration of science, Russell Crowe is right about circumcision.

Yes.

1. You are obviously insecure and crave the validation of others' jealousy.

How can you not understand this? He did something bad, and now they are giving him free training. What kind of message does that send to kids who never committed a crime, and what kind of incentive does it provide to act as they did? It doesn't provide any; it says: "kill us, and you will be rewarded."

But that's just one case. If you give up the principle and send the message that you won't stand up for yourself because of attacks like Anonymous's, then you're toast.

Yes, well, that's the problem isn't it? They are weighing principles. As long as you are weighing which gets you better PR, and not which is morally solid, you will never stop hacker attacks. Assume the public dislikes the right thing to do. How will you ever change that by going along with it? You don't even have a…

I assume everyone here has heard about Microsoft's shameful response to its being hacked by a 14-year-old Irish boy?

Capcom is just doing what it has to until governments stop defaulting on their responsibility to punish pirates. Maybe everyone should stop blaming the only innocent group here: video game companies.

I'd just like to go on record saying that this is horrible and he should be condemned, not promoted.

Well, one of my posts was just mentioned as "worth reading" on Critical Distance. Getting a lot of hits now. The post is this one, by the way.

He didn't just say games are art (which they aren't); he also said the government should force people at gunpoint to spend money on them in order to create jobs. Oh wait, excuse me, in order to indoctrinate children into creating jobs.

Hoo-rah. A great article of mine on the philosophy of RPGs has been republished on Nightmare Mode.

"...it's your game. You decide how you want to play, I mean, we're not the ones who are going to tell you how to play..." - Mathieu Ferland, senior producer at Ubisoft Montreal, describing the design philosophy of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

The two most important things here.

Fantastic. I've got a couple new items ready. My new post is up on the philosophy involved in designing exploration cues for video games. I'm really proud of this piece. I think it does a great job of tying philosophy into game design and, more importantly, does a great job of explaining it in a way people can…

Done and done. My e-mail is AutoServon@gmail.com

Thanks a lot for the blogroll addition. I've checked out your site, and republishing on it sounds great to me. Just let me know what your protocol is and what we do from here. Thanks again : 3

Role-Playing Games as Embodying the Joy of Living.

I've taken about as many classes on the American legal system as I'd like, thanks.

Are you serious? How many times are people going to bring up this intellectually bankrupt argument? What don't you get? "Geeks" who pirate (read: criminals), should be in jail. Nothing sad about that.