I thought Wonder Woman was supposed to be 6’2 (or thereabouts). Maybe it’s just the way it’s shot, but this actress looks 5’0, give or take an inch or two.

I did think he was pretty one-note, to be honest. Solus was the more interesting of the gay male wizards in that game.

Whatever it was, whoever bullied her should be ashamed. She was just a writer and a relatively low-level one (compared to someone like Gaider or Drew K). If the combat in the game sucks ass (and it absolutely did), she’s got about as much to do with that as I do.

Anders was quite well-written in DA2. Possibly the best-written character in any Bioware game since Baldur’s Gate 2. He was annoying and unlikeable, but as a dramatic character, Hepler should be proud of her work.

I don’t know about that. Bioware has used gay characters kind of a lot. Calling him “the best” character on account of his sexual orientation reminds me of when the Oscar for Best documentary went to a Holocaust doc 5 out of 7 years or whatever it was. You’re rewarding the subject matter instead of the quality of the…

“Ability to send recorded videos directly to friends”

I had a girlfriend who once spiked my drink with Nyquil because we couldn’t agree on a TV show. Dumb thing for her to do and I was pretty pissed, but it’s not like I would have tried to get her thrown in jail for five years or whatever over the situation. It’s not like I’m sitting here 8 years later and fretting that…

Pick up any book on literary theory written after 1990. Any single one. Judith Butler’s name will be in it, and feminist criticism will have its own section devoted to it.

Well, if he already spent time in jail for online crimes, that might be the basis for a civil suit. Would depend on what the laws say in Finland.

“Feminist criticism” is not Art criticism. It is social science criticism of art. The objective of Art criticism is to drill down into the particulars of the Art and contextualize it in its time, the texts with which it may be in dialogue with and a greater tradition of Art. The objective of feminist criticism is to…

You’re making a lot of generalizations based on very little. And practicing mind-reading of people you’ve never met and know nothing about.

The software developer is beside the point. The game designers, if art is created, are the ones who would be responsible for creating “art.” I’m positive it would not be difficult to identify a game designer who believed he or she was creating “art.” In fact, several of them wrote open letters to Roger Ebert when he…

Well it’s definitely cobbled together in terms of level design. Forest of Fallen Giants and its tributaries are fine, but everything else is disjointed until you get to the DLCs. And yes, items are often in nonsense places. Havel’s set is in the middle of nowhere for no particular reason.

If he’s talking about the Game Gear, that shit only worked for about an hour without being plugged into a wall.

Goddamn Infinity Blade’s IOS success. There’s a near-complete Shadow Complex sequel that never got taken from Beta to Gold because of it.

When I was still a minor, I used to pirate games, but in 100% of cases it was “abandonware.” To actually buy “out of print” games legally required bidding for something on Ebay and, prior to services like Gog, Steam or PSNClassics (none of which existed) that got ridiculously expensive, ridiculously quick.

On top of that, they could own what they made—no longer would they be shackled to a big corporation’s license, like they were with New Vegas, Alpha Protocol, and all of the other RPGs they’d developed since first forming in 2004.

Depends how sophisticated his technical knowledge is, but unless they were employed by Kapersky or the Finnish NSA or something, as someone who has done work in infosec, myself, I would not generally expect a pair of dentists or truck drivers to identify that someone with the capability of successfully hacking fortune…

Blaming the parents is, to me, often at least partially justifiable in that it could be argued that X behavior should have been noticed and stopped (taking chemicals out to a shed...finding weapons or bullets...seeing the kid come home from a friends’ house with glassy eyes), but in this case, I’ve done some work in…

Eh. I dunno that his parents need to be going to prison. This is the sort of thing that it’s probably difficult to know what he was getting into.