I'm not a Pens fan, but you're a bigot. Did you send one of these tweets? http://chirpstory.com/li/6781

Oh yeah, the Pens are pretty dirty at times, especially Cooke.

Except for the game winner last night, which was cheating: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=…

Also, this is how they were cheating: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=…

There's, like, 4 different videos on that page. At the end of the day, if you don't think the Bruins are a dirty team (at least relative to the rest of the league, on average), there's not much I can say to change your mind.

Well, I dispute that. I think the game should be played hard from whistle to whistle, but that playing dirty is for chumps.

That's because the refs put away the whistles during Bruins games. Despite their aggressive & physical play, especially away from the puck, the Bruins rank in the middle of the league in times shorthanded. Are you going to tell me that Ottawa is a dirtier team than Boston?

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck… should cover it.

Oh, I'm not talking about this series. I'm talking about the last 50-odd years of Bruins hockey.

I don't mean 'cheating' in respect to these particular two games, but rather to the Bruins ethos of "they can't call all the penalties". Time & time again they hit late, away from the puck, and from behind, and only the most egregious violations are whistled. Their attitude has remained unchanged for 50 years - "If we…

God, I hate the cheatin' Bruins. They're essentially the bad guys from the movie Shapshot.

Yeah, that's a flip. I mean, we all like Star Fox, but come on (GOB voice)!

It's even worse in hockey. Every team claims it has a blue-collar mentality, full of good ol' Canadian boys. These days, the children of blue-collar workers can't afford to play hockey, due to equipment costs & ever-increasing rink fees. This guarantees that today's stars actually come from at least middle-class…

Engine costs are expensive. For example, if you wanted to use the Source engine, it costs $250,000 PLUS 5% of gross revenues. If you wanted to have 10 people work on a game, for an average cost of $50,000/year, $750,000 buys you the engine & the labour PLUS you'd still owe Valve $37,500.

As long as it doesn't actually kill anyone, I think we're OK.

So there was this game called Starcraft. At least two major gaming genres (tower defense & MOBA) were invented in Starcraft's level editor.

WoW is free-to-play to level 20.

Developer: Sid Meier and Firaxix (not a progressive rock band)

ME Trilogy. More band for your buck, and ME2 is as good as it gets.

One other possible explanation is that there is an increased interest in video games as time goes by. I would reckon that a higher percentage of 20-year-olds play video games now than in 1983. What's more troubling to me is the male-to-female divide amongst young gamers.