I generally agree that political action is more important that public demonstrations. But the question remains, who do you vote for if every candidate on the ballot is part of the problem? Look at Obama...lots and lots of people voted for change, and in many ways just got more of the same.

Well, you're right, it's very subjective. That's why I say the actual debate is about whether particular actions qualify as greedy or not.

Greed is bad by definition. It's the /excessive/ desire to possess wealth, goods, etc. Like, to the point where you will do shit like hurt other people and crash economies to get it. If no harm is being done, then it's not greed.

Saw/heard her for the first time this past summer. Had no idea who she was, she just happened to be opening for another band I went out to see. She and her band totally blew me away. High-energy, great style, and damn can she dance.

It's an interesting observation. Of course, sexual assault against both boys and girls is swept under the rug all the time, but when the cases break in the media, you never see the males being openly and widely accused of things like dressing slutty or "asking for it".

At this point we can safely ignore anyone trying to talk about how games are not art. Seriously, don't even bother debating them about it. It's simply the prejudice that every new medium and art movement encounters. Rock and Roll wasn't art. Neither were "moving pictures". Every movement you learned about in art…

If you want a disturbing horror movie involving kids, check out The Children. SUPER creepy.

This new look is surprisingly awesome! Of course it's also very stylized, and very different from the previous DMCs, so I'm sure plenty of hardcore fans will hate it.

Seems to me the point is that the company publicly took responsibility, and is obviously not treating the matter lightly or as something that's funny. If ever there was an example of "The Industry" taking women seriously, this seems to be it.

The company publicly acknowledged it, took responsibility, apologized, denounced it as something they don't endorse and promised to punish the programmer who inserted the bit of code. They obviously don't consider the situation funny at all. So what exactly is the problem here? That some nerdy programmers have sexist…

This would also work perfectly as a Mario bros "?" block, that changes color and makes the coin "ding" sound when hit.

I'm confused by the implication that I can't take beach volleyball seriously if I also find the participants sexy, or that I can't respect these women as olympic champions and appreciate their incredible bodies at the same time. They two ideas are not mutually exclusive.

This technology is awesome, and I look forward to the day when super-athletes with carbon fiber bodies go head to head, jumping higher, running faster and generally doing crazier shit than any normal person could do. I would watch the hell out of that.

Yeah, I agree. It's no different than jerking off. It only strikes us as weird because it's rare.

I think criticizing the teaser is valid. The point of a teaser is to stoke interest, and the teaser for Rises is effing awful. If they weren't ready, for whatever reason, to put together a competent teaser, then they should have held off.

Doesn't strike me as any more douchey than driving with the windows down and the stereo cranked up. And it's safer than headphones.

Good analysis, I pretty much agree with all the points. Although, personally, I didn't find the ending of Lost that horrible. I watched it on DVD long after it actually aired, so it may be that my expectations were set particularly low from hearing everyone talk about how bad it is. So when I finally watched it, it…

The right to bear a proton pack would make for a MUCH more awesome constitution.

This is pretty much exactly the game I want to play. I loved Fallout 3, and New Vegas to a lesser extent. Lots of great things in both those games, but the action and gunplay was pretty rough. I'm looking forward to exploring an open, post-apocalyptic world with real, satisfying FPS gameplay.

Awesome interview! I love Gibson's stuff....the classics a little more than his recent books, but it's all good. He's the only author whose work I can read over and over again, and still enjoy it.