I am not really familiar with the hate surrounding Bucknor, and I don't really pay attention to the moneyball stat-crunching bent baseball has taken, but is that "PITCHf/x strike zone" result so terrible? Yeah there are some outliers, but not that many, and that's baseball, right?

"I am Spartacus! Er, I mean Dong-Hyun!"

Yeah, that's pretty much what Child's Play does. They distribute video games to underfunded hospitals' children's wards so kids with terminal/serious diseases have something to keep their minds off of their illnesses.

I was hoping that when he took off the pyro mask it was gonna be another pyro mask. Either that or he just pulled his head off.

It's funny, just a few days ago I had the thought that religious fundamentalists are essentially otaku/anoraks. Now whenever I see an evangelical preacher on TV I'm going to picture the Simpson's Comic Book Guy saying "Ex-CUSE me, I believe it was in book ONE that God-man said..."

"Gaming needs more giant iron-dick hats ..."

I haven't played the game, but from what you've described it sounds like a sex addiction simulator (constant sex or you die, partners disappear once they "serve their purpose," etc.), not a game meant to encompass "all of sexuality" as the designer's blog indicated it was intended to be.

The increase in media coverage might also be playing a role. I won't call in a case of "copycats" because that would imply that the attackers were making conscious choices. But the pervasive news coverage might be penetrating to the subconscious level for these guys; eating someone's face might never have occurred to…

A lot of those girls were very cute, but I think the two dude Tifa's wore it best!

Maybe I'm just being thick this morning, but that makes no sense to me.

Why is her drink ejaculating?

Did you read the article? Summary: Sexism isn't really an issue in the gaming industry.

Wow. Thanks so much for posting that!

Katie, why did you accept that behavior so passively, over and over?

Steve Doocy is the blonde guy. Brian Kilmeade is the guy who was being sexist

Yah, you're right. I mostly meant to talk in the abstract about what purpose a rape scene might serve and not about the actual specifics of the trailer. Unfortunately I sort of waffled back and forth between writing about the abstract and about the particular without making it clear which I was thinking of. (FWIW, I…

I agree, poorly handled rape is offensive and should be avoided. (Even as a guy I would likely be offended, though I very likely am unable to have the same visceral reaction that a woman might.)

I agree, in order to serve that purpose the attempted rape scene should not be sexy or titillating. Whether the scene IS presented in a sexy/titillating way or not, I'm reserving judgement until the game is released. Until then we can only speculate.

Depending on how it's handled, having male gamers play a female character who almost gets raped could be a good thing.

As the others wrote, in hardcore mode player death is permanent. If you die, you lose all items in that character's inventory and all equipped items for that character and that character's followers.