because a woman who hates men could do the same? It's not necessarily what the game is designed to do, although the MK setting plays itself unconditionally exploitative and is proud of it. Whereas the sexy murder nuns are an exploitative selling edge in a game that made no sense to have them. That were also shitty…

I would presuppose that a lot of those people would have either written off Mortal Kombat for what it was already- or, like I do, enjoy the game for doing exactly what it does without remorse. Hitman's nuns were designed to sell a trailer. It's the difference between using a hot lady to sell a car, and using a hot…

all art forms need their small pocket of brutalised hypergore. Artistic mediums seem to me to be very much about invoking (sometimes complicated) emotions in safe environments. Just so long as it doesn't become facetious or a standard of design, then its very much a fun thing to engage with once in awhile

The implication is somewhat different when one is in a world where everyone is scantily clad, sexualised and can be brutally murdered with equal share and the other is a really out-of-character series of boob nuns in a world that has otherwise tackled comparatively down-to-earth characters.

I know nobody's banning anything. I just find the game/not game debate to be as empty as the whether things are art or not debate. At best, its a pointless way to write off new ideas.

can we have a debate on why that debate doesn't need to happen?

screw all the game of thrones jokes, David O'Reilly is

it's depressing that people have paid jobs in journalism while being completely incapable of even basic research

"Assassin's Creed is developed by a multicultural team of various faiths and beliefs and..." is an interestingly brand centric version of the old "I'm not racist but..."

you know, if Nintendo went third party and just produced their fantastic games for xbox or sony instead of expecting me to shell out for a machine of theirs which, outside of their games, is mostly just a bunch of bad ports- I'd be quite happy with that

don't ever come to Bristol. We have a lot of street-shutting parades and festivals caused by fun cultural stuff. Seems like you'd hate it.

yo yo sup limeys it's me the american y'all. ima slam down a hamburger

shouldn't be embarrassed to do anything really. so long as it don't hurt others. life is too short and precious to force yourself away from things you enjoy.

Aye yeah- that's why I thought it was an interesting point (I generally prefer to err to the side of terrible human actions being more relatable than demonic), I just felt it needed extrapolating on, since I see arguments like this sometimes used to back up the most pigheaded statements. And I think our species'…

You expressed your point in an enjoyably interesting manner- although as beings capable of critical thought and analysis, I always find it somewhat infuriating when people try to justify reprehensible actions as a genetic or social inevitability. Fact is, a lot of modern society seems at odds with our "natural" needs,…

there's this whole fucking gigantic megachasm of a difference between seeing eye-to-eye with somebody and treating an entire gender as a replaceable commodity based on how well you can control them

straight up acid babble. The only really alarming thing i see here is that he thought Whole Foods would be a fun place to go on psychedelics

Less comics just about video games, more comics about people who maybe occasionally play video games but have real, interesting, actual lives. Problem is, this is Kotaku, obviously their webcomic selection is going to be centred around "geek culture" or whatever. It'd be nice if io9 or something had a more general…

Yeah. Far be it from me to tell people to stop finding these funny, if they do, but the comics always kind of bother me. They're too reliant on obscure material to really work, and often even when you do get them, they seem more like references, than punchlines. Oh the Anti-mage can blink, right, I remember that, I…

In some cases I might agree with you- however I think, in this example, it's more important to realise who the person you're mourning actually was. He wasn't decent to people, why be decent about him?