I'm all for idle games, but I'm a bit iffy on one for mobile. The concept is cool, it looks AMAZING, but I can't help but wonder what it'll do to battery life.

Of course, I'll never know because I don't have an iPhone. D:

Well, at least it feels that way. Never in my life have I seen people get as fervorous over a piece of video game hardware as they have over this limited 3DS, partially because it's a lovely, nostalgia-tickling system, and partially because Nintendo and its retail partners have totally bungled the launch, facilitating…

Yeah well MY dad works there too and he says it's fake. D: He can also beat up your dad (in Smash). So there!

Ah neat, the more you know!

Yeah, it's an old Latin term, somewhere between a general and an emperor to oversimplify it. I know it's picky of me, it just kinda hurt. XD

That's true, and my response - the one you specifically replied to - disagreed with that premise and said it should be more about kids understanding responsibility than letting them play just because other people will lose because of it. I agree the letter itself had some problematic wording, I'm not entirely sure…

Cool stuff! The VNN announcer's pronunciation of Consul made me cringe every time he said it, though. D:

Not that I completely disagree, but saying there's nothing going on when it's known that there is/was to be a sequel that tells the rest of the story is a little silly. But like was said, I remember it too, so memorable is still a good descriptor.

Cool? I think you're misunderstanding my post; I'm not saying that you should let your kids finish it just because some entitled so-and-so on the internet is going to lose a game, I'm saying that the kid needs to understand that he's now negatively affected 4 other people because he managed his time poorly. Absolutely…

I get that, I've been there, it's one of the most frustrating things in the world. But in all honesty the odds are just as great that you'd have won the series because someone on the enemy team was afk as well, and over time the number of afk/troll games is far outstripped by the number of proper ones.

If you lose a promo series, it's honestly not the end of the world. It sucks, but if you really deserve to climb up to a higher skill bracket, it won't stop you for long.

I think it definitely could have been phrased better, but at the same time it depends on what queue it is. If it's a normal game, I'm really not too fussed beyond the immediate "Ugh, we could have won" factor.

I think at the very least, ranked play should be structured so that afks have less of an impact on the games themselves. Maybe not as far as negating promo matches, but at the very least dampening LP gains/losses if one or more players disconnected.

It depends, really. If you enter a ranked match and then go "lol whoops, time to leave for work" you're being all sorts of disrespectful. I get that shit happens (maybe your boss called in my analogy), I've had to ditch games myself because something came up. But like the last paragraph says, people need to have an…

That's refreshing. Too bad he had to bow out, but at least he took the high road while doing so.

I'm so torn on Nintendo. Their games are fantastic but their business practices are becoming more draconian than anything Microsoft came up with for the XB1, but everyone just defends them because it's Nintendo. They don't have reasonable stock for anything lately, they have the dumbest policies for what products they…

Because at this point SOMEONE has to.

SC2 might be a different beast than LoL, I'll freely admit that, especially since it's not nearly as team-based (unless SC2 has no solo brackets, I was under the impression it did though). I'm not trying to say there's absolutely no physical differences that pertain to eSports - I'm not that naive - I'm just saying…

There's obviously mechanical skill involved - if you honestly thought I was saying there's no skill involved in eSports, give your head a shake, friend. My point was that it's statistically impossible for there NOT to be female players out there with the motivation and skill to be on the pro scene. Your argument would…

Credible source or I call bullshit. The reason there aren't girls in eSports has a LOT to do with the fact that people don't take female gamers seriously enough to offer them a sponsorship, which in turn means they don't have the funds to play video games for a living. It's not about mechanical skill, theorycrafting,…