Absolutely. They obviously know this game quite well and squeeze a lot of little jokes in to their videos. Excellent quality :)

Good monopoly analogy. Gosh, I love that game.

I'm not sure if we really would see the absolute reduction of abstraction, even if it were possible. There is an uncanny valley with interface and gameplay as much as with visuals, and at a certain point increasing realism takes from enjoyment. Successful games are able to target a sweet spot between realism and…

Agreed :p

First off, EVERY game deals with abstraction, and not just as a "necessary evil." It is, arguably, the most fundamental feature of not just games but storytelling and play in general. Very few games which try to emulate the real world as closely as possible are ever successful, and even those games deal with…

Well, that's exactly how chess is played, sometimes far into the midgame. Sets of pre-determined openers and responses, based on millions of games and the statistical outcomes of each. BUT just memorizing those openings and responses is not what makes you a good chess player, and there absolutely is strategy in chess.…

To everyone here: can you think of a Hollywood film that is not a kung-fu movie or a film set in Asia where there is an Asian as the main character? I keep thinking that there has to be one out there, but I have you to think of one.

Have to agree with you. But then again, ANY acknowledgement of Shepard's new cyborg-ness would have been a step up from what actually happened.

Amen, brother :p

A fair point. I meant power as in "I can get you in trouble with the law/physically harm you" kind of power.

This kind of reminds me of some of the things that Jack Thompson says about video games. "Get a life" and whatnot. Which, according to him, involves watching the superbowl.

I had a similar guy, down at Brigham Young University (the Mormon on in Utah). Just had a big cross with "love Jesus" and whatnot scrawled across it and wanted to talk to you about how much he loved God. Not the brightest guy, and he thought that Muslims worshiped a moon God (which apparently is bad), but we didn't…

This.

There have pretty much always been people like this, condemning any lifestyle or culture which didn't fit into their paradigm as evil. Gratefully, those kinds of people don't tend to have power to do much besides make noise in this day and age.

I'm Mormon, and you see these guys around out temples and church-wide conferences quite a bit. One year I chatted one up and it turned out that he was just hired to be there and make noise by a local church. I wasn't really sure what to think about that.

*sigh*

Here it comes

Well, no. Star Wars was pretty much always cool, so you can't claim it before it went mainstream :p

To give my perspective, I think that Empire Strikes Back (despite the awful title) is the only one of the series which is consistently good. RoTJ had the forty minutes or so of Jabba's Palace which was so disjointed from…

Part of this might be because of Japan's biggest casual wear retailer, Uniqlo. It's kind of like a JC Penney, but without the formal wear, and there are 793 of them in Japan. To give perspective, there are 1107 JC Penneys in the entire US, and Japan is slightly smaller than California.

Have to say, I'm not loving the…

I lost it at Magikarp vs. Gyarados.

This.

A few others have good dubs—Trigun was all right, as was Fullmetal Alchemist—but I usually have to watch anime in Japanese. And it always irks me when there's that cutesy-pie female voice actor.

You're kind of missing the point. If an argument is unintelligible, whether because of lack of internal consistency or (in this case) lack of proper framing, it's not really worth anything. This isn't about "demanding" or "rights," just that the OP's post, without any sort of framing, doesn't make sense. And posting…