This logic of "Make it an option" is a special pet-peeve of mine. It sounds innocuous and until you stop and think what that means. Firstly, you're spending development time to integrate a discretionary or cosmetic feature that not everyone will use.

There are real biological limits though.

(Disclaimer: Skip to the last paragraph for the relevant part. The rest just turned into a meandering story as I wrote it.)

Apparently criticism of a ruling regime means you think a nation is "the devil" now.

This is interesting food for thought.

"Nobody sits around saying how insensitive we are to Chinese people by making orange chicken."

Seriously. My roommate (plays games, but doesn't really pay attention to gaming news) saw me playing Mass Effect 2 and said "Oh. It looks just like Uncharted."

I was commenting more on the media feeling the need to point it out. It's like they think we're Baptists or something.

I had no idea people actually paid any serious attention to whether someone is Vaishnava or Shaivite or any other flavor of Hinduism.

The idea is that if you're insincere about defending the Constitution then swearing on the Constitution won't mean much to you. If you're serious about your faith, however, then you're going to swear on the Bible to vouch f0r your sincerity.

Try hanging out with men who come from money or value money/status a lot. There are a lot of status conscious guys out there who want girlfriends that adhere to typical housewifey gender-roles. They tend to frown on anything they consider to be "childish" or "low-brow." In fact, they will treat any indication that a…

I feel similarly about it. I think part of the issue is that unlike other forms of media people tend to treat games as this big amorphous thing. You don't get communities of "readers" or "movie-goers." For the most part they will talk about specific books or movies that they like and you'll get the occasional oddball…

Ugh. Why would they end it with that pre-Extended cut version with that abrupt stop at the end? The whole point of the dissonance is that it segues really well into Das Malefitz that they play over the credits. But if you're not going to immediately follow up with Das Malefitz it sounds awful and just leaves you…

"It's possible your PS3 is built with this same kind of forced-march, pressure-cooker mentality. It's possible your HTC tablet is made illegally by underage, underpaid kids. It's possible almost every major gadget company has just as much sweat on its hands as Apple—and if we knew they did, they'd deserve all the same…

"The gentlemen that launched "12 Year Old Sluts""

What intrinsic value do gold and silver have? Don't they ALSO only have value as a currency because a government says they do?

Forget drone fighters. If we invent superluminal propulsion then realistically space combat will involve enormous rail-guns or auto-targeted mass accelerators and smart-missiles. Engagements will occur across inconceivable distances and at speeds beyond what humans could possibly perceive. It would be the least…

Why buy them? I just make an amazon wish-list and don't buy a game until I'm ready to play it (when I foresee having a lot of time on my hands in the near future.) Then I buy them, get them in a couple of days, and while away a few weeks making my way through them.

Yeah real estate agents are pretty fratty too.

The whole point of philosophy is to help us define "good."