"Interracial love is attention-grabbing" certainly doesn't read that way.

Oh man, if we all end up having to bow down to Minecraft I'm gonna be so embarrassed for humanity.

This is perfectly safe for work; she doesn't look topless at all...

I see you think double parentheses are clever (guess what?) (they're not).

You are aware that offering multiplayer is not the same as forbidding single player, right? Even if you want to play solo you're still required to be connected to the internet.

Exactly. Rather than fixing the core problem, which is the fact that the sims aren't following their own lives at all but randomly pursuing different jobs, they are just making them pursue their randomness in a mildly less horrible way. They should consider actually delivering on their promised level of simulation.

It doesn't fix the fact that they lied about each sim having his own intricate and specific life that you could follow him on, which was one of their main excuses for necessitating the online connection/cloud computing.

The fact that you can play on with shitty AI and horrible bugs doesn't mean it doesn't lessen anyone else's enjoyment. Your claim that these "don't make the game any less fun to play" is clearly false. You might feel the Sim City franchise does not deserve this amount of crap, but unfortunately Maxis and EA have…

Yea, I hate it when people provide factual evidence and let that speak for itself, it's practically the definition of bullying...oh wait. Nothing they've said is deliberately mean spirited, it's all based on facts about the game. If the game didn't suck the facts wouldn't be interpreted as bashing, so this is really…

For the most part Kotaku has been pointing out facts, letting the reader draw their own conclusions. It's not Kotaku's fault that the facts point to EA blatantly lying about the game. They claimed they needed online because the sophisticated simulation of individual Sims lives could not be handled on individual's…

Why doesn't it matter that the reason they said they needed online in the first place (to be able to model each sim's life individually and offload some of the calculations) is clearly a fabrication? As others have pointed out, your logic that the overall act (here, requiring online connection) being true is reason to…

They're just saying that's what they WANTED. They never claimed to have succeeded.

"If the design - however motivated - was to add multiplayer to Sim City, then it makes sense to have online as a requirement." No, it does not make sense that adding an online multiplayer component would require eliminating any offline single player mode. I'm not sure why that logic makes sense to you.

Sigh, the amount of misogyny in the comments here is really disheartening. I suppose it at least proves the article is right about how douchetattic gamer boys often are.

Haha, +1

But but, this is the internet! Where is your RAGE?!

"What I said is basically how you described it, as a catchall term for those who don't identify as any of the other groups, but still, for whatever reason, consider themselves a part of the larger community." That's not how I described the Q, which stands for questioning, not queer (queer being a catchall term,…

"I'm not saying that we shouldn't segregate sports by gender because of the overlap between these differences. I am not making that claim, and I don't know how to make that more clear to you. I don't get why this is so difficult to grasp. This is like the third time I've had to say said that."

Hormone treatment for extended periods ameliorates some of the differences between trans and cis-women, but some of the differences persist. I only used height as a clear example of the fact that an adult body that went through puberty as a male and then underwent hormone replacement will still have some attributes…

Muscle mass, hematocrit and height are all things which contribute to one's performance in a sport, and for all 3 factors there is overlap between the genders. For hematocrit the normal range is 38.8 to 50 percent for men and 34.9 to 44.5 percent for women. So you could point to some male athlete with a lower…