@ryoshi: System Shock 2.

@Covenant: The principle difference between that list, and Rose, is that his ethical infractions appertained to the game, as opposed to some general ill-character.

@GrimeyRyder: Right place, right time, probably. It could have been anything. It happened to be gaming.

@XtrizioX: "and psykofaze clocked in with an entry based on last week's challenge, but given his record, the subject matter, and the fact it was funny, I'll allow it. "

@ebuch: Conversation from a Halo 3 midnight launch line at a Gamestop in a somewhat shady neighborhood:

Wow, this is one of the weeks that's full of clever.

@Thorn14: Look, there could be a video game that directly stimulated the pleasure centers of the brain, and there'd be people who'd say "yeah, but there's no co-op mode," or "I was expecting more prefrontal cortex action. Pure NAcc is sooooo '07."

@Firelance: I'm hype.

@mrClint: If you go through the trouble of getting them working, the Sierra classics - specifically Space Quest - are still pretty damn funny.

@ebuch: It depends on the site. Even between two franchisees there's a lot of difference. Some have contests, games, giveaways, and all manner of other sorts of flippancy; others don't. Check with the store itself.

@leno40: Halo's a really odd duck in the story department. In some regards, it's an extremely story-based game. The background is thick and far from generic. However, because it quite boldly refuses to engage in any sort of "well, as you know..." or opening scroll exposition, (and because the multiplayer became such a…

My child challenged a perfect, immortal machine.

@Bubbleman!: Oh, they're just as thin-skinned, just over different issues, which is basically my point.

@Arken: I think the idea is that the quilts come about post-crisis, and note that it says most books, not all.

MS Live has appalling customer service. Having suffered through it myself for a problem that's still unresolved, my sympathies, but also my total lack of surprise.

@Bubbleman!: The good ol' days never existed.

Duke Fuckin' Nukem, indeed.

@fuchikoma: You can't stick with just objective and subjective. You need also paradigmatic. As long as that's there, there's no risk of getting trapped with an imaginary tree, because you're no longer looking for an absolute expression (which is a big problem: there's no good place to stop). You're looking for an…

"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"~Apocalypse Now

@Pixiebutt: No, not censorship.