It's blatantly obvious you never were really addicted. "Just quitting" is a lot easier said than done. He admitted to his problem. That's the first step to conquer and battle it. Belittling his efforts as you are is counter productive.

As a girl, the first male presence in your life is your dad. No matter if he is a good dad or not, he will play an important role in her life (or surrogate father figure if he is not there at all). She will look to reassurance and guidance from the father figure. Rejection in the way she described hurts a lot and can…

I think it is important to talk about what it feels like to be on the receiving end. Many cannot begin to imagine what it can be like and how much damage it can do. Hopefully being open about it will raise awareness and will make some think twice before bullying someone. If only one reconsiders, then it was already…

Having been bullied myself I can say that yes, you can be traumatised by it. You said a person has to be happy with themselves. That is the crux of the matter. If you are being bullied, then the last thing you are is happy with yourself. How can you be, if the feedback you get from all around is that you are not good…

Yeah it was a bit too overly "done". Shame really, it could have been a great episode if they had just relaxed a bit, but it was still okay I guess.

My PS2 is not dead. I still play it regularly and make sure to keep in in great working order. I have a huge PS2 library of games I would never sell. If my old girl ever breaks down I will set all heaven and hell in motion to get her or another working one, just so I can keep enjoying my games.

I dunno about that. If you study crimes with excessive violence a common denominator is some form of passion that existed before the event, be it intense love or hate. Shooting her 20 times and trying to rape his mother gives me the impression that the kid has some serious problems. Let alone losing it over something…

I hope so too! I have the Japanese version, and the graphics and what I have played so far is phenomenal! It surpasses Yakuza 4 on so many levels. Has a ton of Kanji in it, so if you don't know much Japanese, you'll not understand much.

Exactly didn't make much sense. Sure the dress up a girl mini game may not be everyone's cup of tea, but you can easily just skip that.

The general way the question is asked makes it hard to answer: what kind of violent game? CoD, MW or other war FPS? Beat 'em ups? Brawlers? RPGs? They all have some form of violence in them. Even Little Big Planet has it (suicide when you get stuck).

One of the oddest ones is the removal of hostess bars in Yakuza 3 in the western edition. Thank heavens they included them in Yakuza 4. No idea why they were removed really, it's not offensive. Maybe they thought we wouldn't understand?

Yes, I would. I enjoyed the games, would be really cool to have a proper next gen ZOE

Wow, that is extreme. I hope your friend wasn't hurt. It's shocking to hear that the victim, which he was, gets punished on top of what already happened. And it is not a good development. I'm not sure why bringing up of children is being outsourced as it is, when I was a kid it was unthinkable that bad behaviour was…

I work in customer support for a computer games company that has an international MMO, and I can tell you that we often have to teach our customers (which are generally in their early teens and from all over the world) that actions have consequences and that they have to live with the consequences of their actions and…

Indeed, why waste that much money on a game to get something, when you can get several in a shop for the same price? He wasn't thinking straight was he? Blinded by the wish to win?

This massive striving for success and putting in hard work was what helped Japan get back on their feet after the war and become a technologically highly advanced country. The question is if this is still (or again after 3/11) necessary today.

Yes, they do ask for it. Some will be quite open and just go "CS?" with some very clear ASCII or movements, depending on the game, others at least try to be a little more discreet and/or put in a little more effort by trying to make conversation first (for about 5 minutes before they feel entitled to a reward). They…

Exactly. Looks like they spelt the name as they heard it, phonetically. If the American accent of the lady who ordered was quite thick, then they can be hard to understand, especially to non-native English speakers. It was an unintentional mistake, instead of laughing it off and having a funny holiday story to tell (I…

Yeah, cause 47% of all game players is a very small group. /sarcasm (Source: 2012 Study by Entertainment Software Association).

Yeah, the scope is too narrow. There are other issues also worthwhile of scrutiny, racism and homophobia are just as important to expose as sexism. There is a general issue with bad and unacceptable behaviour which is affecting a great diversity of people. The whole underlying issue deserves to be exposed. I think…