Not really. Morality, and the reflection over the pain of others, is pretty strictly human. I doubt animals, driven by instinct, make a conscious evaluation over pain versus gain. They need to eat, their needs are driven by instinct, they eat. Roughly.

On the other hand, if we’re talking about humans, our eating is…

Not entirely unreasonable. I was wondering myself throughout the article.

Stands to reason, doesn’t it?

Forging metal, which has been a popular pastime for creating murderdeathweapons, funny hats and weird sculptures for something like 6- or 7000 years, would be quite hard if metal kept its strength and ductility up to the point of melting into a puddle.

Oh look, it’s the toclafane!

Sweet assault charges.

Police were about to arrest the suspect, before they were reminded by Waffle House management that the customer is always right.

I really like how the threat of terrorist attacks by non-US citizens, which is pretty much nonexistent both historically and today, is a bigger deal than the very actual terror caused by unruly police.

So what they’re saying is that off-duty cops are like cops except drunk.

Shouldn’t this, then, be illegal? As in “assault”, not “illegal play”. It occurred on a field, but it seems it didn’t occur within the confines of the game.

Desensitizing and normalization, I think, shouldn’t be taken to mean “you will play one game then commit atrocities”. Rather a slow, gradual shift of acceptance, individual and cultural, towards certain things (like committing crimes or hurting others).

I hope he didn’t build the diorama in his room, ‘cause then he’d have to build a 1/6 scale diorama in his 1/6 scale diorama, featuring a 1/6 scale diorama ...

When some hockey news finally show up amidst all the footballs and hand-footballs and baseballs and basketballs, it’s unavailable in my country.

Gah.

What the hell is the deal with each of these services reuirin gme to sign up? No, I will not sign up for 1 free download, just give me the book.

The way I see it, Kotaku is a journalistic outlet, not another marketing channel for developers and publishers.

I like it when AoS delivers amazing spy drama with double-triple-quadruple plays, action and deceit, while also telling stories of things greater than a few north american spy organizations; stories of aliens and world domination and ancient (possible) evils lurking in the shadows.

Also Fitz and Simmons upset voices…

The media reports on attacks that occur outside of France.

Ew. Gelatin is gross.

CGI is the new thing to complain about if you want to appear knowledgeable about moviemaking, like talking about vinyl or gold-plated cables if you want to appear knowledgeable about audio.

Also I can think of worse things than Ryan Gosling in a silence-heavy neo-noir.

“The Purple Man”?