Was gonna say something similar to this. The only thing I have to add is that I feel that historical revisionism—trying to paint a fictional past a accurate—to me is much more aggravating than showing the absolutely *terrible* things (or at least political incorrect things) which happened historically. I feel that it…

IMO it's the best game in the genre out there at the moment. I'll be a LOT faster than AoE, but there's a lot to like about the game.

I'm split on the fights. On one hand, they were a joy to watch for my inner six-year-old. Duel of the Fates is still one of my favorite sword fighting sequences, and some of the other fights had delightful moments.

Does this count?

Actually, me too. I was imagining Donkey Kong, Bowser, and maybe Ganondorf as titans with the other characters as the Recon troops.

Good video in any case.

I must have missed that.

It also seems like it was 19th century Germany, with the general level of technology.

No. If this became a major topic of discussion on forums more important than this one, then perhaps we might see something, but this little article here on Kotaku won't be changing anything.

You don't need to read it, so I'm not sure why it should bother you. Frankly, I'm glad that people are willing to invest time and energy to create content, even if it is derivative content. This is, in essence, a fan fic, and fan fiction is a great way to get people into both reading and writing. And even though the…

You have some well thought out and valid points here, but I think that we need to keep two things in mind. First, this is still in alpha and the game will likely see substantial changes as it progresses. Second, I have a hard time getting worked up about a game about the US prison system when there are thousands of…

You're being overly simplistic here, as you have been with the other things you're trying to argue.

Governments, electoral systems, social and political dynamics, policy making—these are complicated and nuanced, especially when you deal with a large population and non-elected officials. It's easy to say "everyone just…

Again, I'm not sure you're quite understanding what I'm saying. When these do overlap, and they do more often than I would like, then these comparisons would be valid. However, many of the examples she uses are not exemplary of an intersection of the different cliques she talks about in her video. Also, she often…

And you're missing my point. I'm saying that there are several different issues at play here—smurfettes, "Ms. Males," gender tags, etc—and they aren't being treated as separate issues. These can overlap, but that's not the case with a good deal of the examples in this video.

I'm also saying that I don't see much…

I think it's a bit much to say that the automatic assumption is that it was male. I, for one, wouldn't make the assumption. I'd also argue that there's nothing wrong with assigning gender to characters, particularly when they are animals. As far as I am aware, nearly all animals on our planet are gendered male or…

Something had been bothering me about her videos for a while now, and it wasn't until watching this one that I figured out what it was: a good deal of her arguments are apples-to-oranges logical fallacies.

Brighter color pallet, not screen brightness. And I'm pretty sure you weren't turning up the brightness much here:

That's a bit of a complicated question. Scholars like Craig Anderson and Brad Bushman have looked at the connection between aggression and violent media for decades, but it's not exactly ethical to create an experimental design where violence is your dependent variable. Because of that, there haven't been any studies…

Soldiers, officers, military advisers, military contractors, R&D, logistical personnel and contractors, manufacturers, criminal investigators, forensic psychologists, criminal psychologists, bodyguards and security personnel, self-defense instructors, policemen, federal police, journalists, peacekeeping personnel, NGO…

I think there's a difference between saying "we ought to struggle against our nature for something better, even if we never get there" and "if we just realized ____."

And the fact of the matter is that life wouldn't be better for everyone if all murder suddenly stopped. For one thing, some people would lose their…

At the expense of sounding cynical, do *you* have a solution for the millennia of tears and bloodshed that is human history? We have always killed each other, in every society and every age of history, which to me suggests that violence is not just socially learned, but part of our nature.

We murder each other because…