@Bad Cowfish: Exactly. Which is why I feel the color of the will peripheral should have no bearing in this tragic event.

@Sofox: You win the big prize!

@Kynes: I do. but what I am also saying is that even if the wii gun was brightly colored, a child may still be as inclined to pick up a gun of any color.

@LawFairy: Ok, I agree with you %100. That kind of stuff has always bugged me as well, and I'm a man!!! My wife gets mad all the time at commercials and how the women are always gorgeous and the men are always gross. Good times.

I like how the muzzle flashes are silhouetted in black. :P

@Paintbait: Good for you!

Even if the Wii gun was colored brightly, the real gun would not have looked like less of a toy.

@WilliamTheFifth: Nope.

A little long, but really rad.

@LawFairy: I don't think there is even a male hero under the criteria you put. I'm interested to see if anyone can name one.

In the end artists are very picky when they make their games. They design things to the littlest detail, and an animator and character modeler will fight tooth and nail to show you how the female skeleton is different than the male, and that the difference in these proportions.

@Rachel Fogg: It is BS (kind of.) Their pipeline isn't built to handle any kind of skeleton scaling like you would find in Soul Calibur 4 or Saints Row 2. To make it work within their pipeline it would require double the animation and character model assets, and more time/money. It's not unachievable though.

Yet Saints Row 2 set a bar for cross-gender animations and outfits that no game has matched since. And in Soul Calibur 4 you can create a character of either gender to use a weapon type normally attributed to only one specific gender. Obviously the pipeline at dice is using a very linear system where every model is…

@ZakMckracken: I don't know why you replied to me telling me what you did, did you see who I was replying to in my statement? Your whole first sentence, I agree. And if he regrets itt, I would hope so, but one never knows, but regardless it shouldn't be any basis for how harsh a punishment he will receive.

@NightMystic: He is a step father. So maybe, maybe not. And regardless of what regret someone "might" feel after they commit a crime, that should never be a factor in any kind of sentencing.

@AchromaticMagus: Charges aren't filed yet because there is a pending investigation. Give it time.

@Eji: not to mention she probably saw her step-dad using it to scare away dogs from the yard. a handgun... to scare away dogs... If i was a kid that would probably make me think gun use is commonplace and i can play with it too.

I remember a story as a kid back in the 80's of a kid who pointed a gun into his mouth thinking it was a squirtgun. Squirtguns got a lot of flack back then.

"Could they, for instance, continue to expand Borderlands' universe indefinitely, transforming a traditional console game into something more akin to an episodic title?"

@taxi: Parsec was rad, as was Hustle. I used to love Hunt the Wumpus on there as well. I still have my Donkey Kong and Centipede carts, but not TI.