That looks like Bruce Jenner.

I know, it was mostly a joke. Either way, I want my Metroid, and I want it soon!

Don't worry, Nintendo, people are making awesome Metroid fan art like this, but we don't want another Metroid game!

No kidding, man; I can here just for the comments. For all the controversy with the ending, what remains after the dust settles is one of the best and most flesh-out fantasy universes I've run into. Still playing ME3 to this day.

Well, my two favorite sports are baseball and soccer/football (it's weird watching soccer in the US if you're a fan of international soccer, since neither "soccer" nor "football" feels entirely natural), and baseball doesn't really run into this sort of thing much at all. But yes, the non-call in the first half of the…

Yeah I know, and FIFA is definitely part of the issue. Then again, FIFA is almost always part of the issue, no matter what the subject is.

Well, wait a minute, soccer (football, fútbol, futebol, whatever you prefer) has been played in the US for decades upon decades, so Americans aren't exactly new to it. Sure, some of the people watching it are, but plenty are not. I don't know China's history with American football, but I'd imagine it isn't comparable.

I'm clear on what is and isn't a foul, and I'm not in disagreement with you that it was a lazy foul on Rafa's part. What I'm saying is that I could pick any game in the WC so far, and point to a dozen instances where this type of thing hasn't been called (including some in the penalty box). My problem with it is that…

You nailed it, man. Soccer is refereed much like the NBA, in that technically you can probably call a foul on almost every play on the ball (pushing, pulling, a foot tapping a leg, etc.), but like the NBA, the amount of physicality in the game is up to the ref.

Yeah, this is exactly what I'm worried about.

That's fair, and I'm not really criticizing people getting hyped up about the game. I haven't read/listened to anything that went into specifics about the procedural assets, so that's cool to know that they're trying to keep everything as varied as possible.

I guess that's exactly my problem with it. The scope of Spore was similarly ambitious, and it didn't turn out to be the greatest game in the world, either. I'm also not 100% sold on the whole procedural thing, just because it has the potential to make things kind of generic.

I wouldn't say it's "beat to death" any more than I'd say any other word is. What word would you use to describe it? Expectation? It's the same concept.

That's true, to a point. I'm just saying that ever since this game hit E3, all I've heard is "OMG this was better than everything else at E3 put together" and "this is what is gonna make me buy a new console!" when we really don't know that much about the game.

Yeah, I'm genuinely surprised by the amount of hype for this game already. Not that I don't think it'll be cool, but I can't help feeling like people's expectations for this game are already way beyond what they should be.

Italy? Italy.

Yup, exactly. Don't get me wrong, Suarez is definitely a little nuts, but calling people "negro" or "negrito" is sometimes not only not an insult, it can be affectionate. I don't think it was necessarily affectionate in that case, but it certainly wasn't this huge racist pejorative.

While I don't disagree that he was the original guy to get "star calls", he still got fouled way harder than anyone does today; check out the way the Bad Boy Pistons used to play him. We're not talking D Wade '06 levels of untouchability, either way.

Yeah, but you nailed it at "defense-deprived shitshow." Duncan is an all-time great, and certainly one of the best teammates ever (something Jordan never was), but if you needed a game TAKEN OVER, is there really a player you'd take over Michael Jordan?

You have a point, but we're talking about talent as an athlete. Steve Jobs seems to have been a terrible person, but most people agree that he was phenomenal at his job.