I just re-read that WSJ piece, and it seems that the writer only has one source. Well, I guess this is what you get when you publish single-source material. On that note, there I quite a few things I could say about that Gamespot piece on Kojima. . .

Klingon is actually a piece of shit linguistically. It really is a laughing stock among serious linguists, so no, only in the eyes of the popular culture did it 'get away with it.' Personally, I don't mind the non JJ Abrams Star Trek, even though I don't consider myself a fan. But, Klingon itself is likely the most…

No, it is demonstrably English, from a semiological perspective, as is Klingon and Elven. Also, making up languages never stopped Tolkien from actually using proper grammar and treating his readers with respect, so these people are apparently vicious idiots.

Loan-words are not English. That is what makes them loan-words. . . Also, it is the same in French and Old Norse. German, Irish, Scottish, and other major influences on the language don't use the apostrophe very often. The language I know of that does not follow this is Arabic, and Arabic never uses a soft "C" when…

It is not following the rules of French, either. The 'L' prefx is a shortening of the word "Le," but is only proper to use in proper pronouns when they begin with a vowel, such as "L'Arc," when beginning with a consonant it is kept whole and separate. Also, "Le" is roughly equivalent to "The," making it meaningless:…

At the same time, a separate fleet was charged with a sneak attack on the Vermillion Peristylium. A l'Cie accompanied this task force. Using a l'Cie to invade a sovereign state was a direct violation of the Pax Codex, a treaty created by all four Crystal-States of Orience. The besieged peristyilum attempted to repel…

No kidding. That was more or less the entire point of what I said. Could you elaborate on what fanfiction is then? what philosophies and thought-patterns should I be aware of to help me understand it? Honestly, from my perspective, it simply seems to be a slew of self-indulgent nonsense, with its slovenly text as…

It is not the typo, per se. It is the environment in which the typo exists, and the typo itself as only a small part of a larger, infinitely expanding spiral of terror that is the known universe of erotic fan fiction.

"Well… Ok, send you asked nicely. I'll be there in about 4 minutes"

She said she'd "bought into the bogus myth that, in order to be a real gamer, you had to be playing GTA or Call of Duty or God of War or other testosterone-infused macho posturing games which often had a sexist, toxic culture that surrounded them. So even though I was playing a lot of games—these kinds of games—I…

Lol. That is all your statement is worth.

(*Not because it would result in some sort of payout bonus or anything, but because pride, you know? Maybe it's just me, but I look at a 90 game with a much different sense of that game's quality than when I look at an 89 game.)

Is this about the Vita article from last week as well? lol Don't worry, everyone has forgotten about that. . .

LOL again. Seriously, what the hell? 1) The -oid suffix is Greek, and refers to "resemblance." Usually used with the connotation that it is imperfect. Which is true. A perfect fact would be to mention that Chaucer's General Prologue uses the word "beshitted," and used "shitted" in some of the versions of the Miller's…

LOL. Less or fewer doesn't bother me. Nor does shitted or shat. I just think it is an interesting thing to point out, like a factoid. Because most people do not understand that the very concept of the cuss word is itself a product of social forces, not linguistic forces —in as much as we can delineate between the two.…

BTW, just for anyone who is interested, it is actually "shitted" for the past tense. Usually it is assumed that since "spit" is "spat" then this is a property of of the "at" formation at the end of the word, but it is not. "Spit" is an irregular verb, thus its tense structures should not be used for other words…

You are misunderstanding me. Yeah, our sense of cultural histories is obviously skewed all over the world, but ninja are a special case, much like that of St. Patrick, where the real history behind them is actually quite a bit more interesting than the legends and myths we have build up around them. Wild West Cowboys…

It is always hilarious to see this kind of thing, because it goes to show just how much everyone -even the Japanese- misunderstand the Ninja. For example: the black pajamas were not even invented until after the Meiji Revolution. A were many common myths about the ninja. At that time the country was rapidly…

Yes. Everyone obviously has the right to interpret works of art as they see fit. And indeed, Awakening and Majora are true works of art. I would at least argue that how you interpret Awakening comes down to how you interpret the concept of life itself, and this is a heavily philosophical point. If everything does…

As far as being melancholy and vaguely distressing, Link's Awakening I think near the end matches Majora's Mask. Awakening is about growing up, and what one must leave behind, even though one may love those things dearly. Those two are the outlier Zelda titles that really do prove my long-standing thesis that often…