This strip sums up collegiate life perfectly, as well.

I always loved that, especially when you would go into free drive mode and he would try to not sound panicked while being stern.

I guess the oculus rift and similars will change that soon

How do we know you're not a hoax?????

How do I know your story isn't a hoax???? Cool story, if true!

A May 2013 Kotaku article about a gamer learning to drive in part with the help of a video game appears to have been based on a hoax that we fell for. Ugh! We've updated the original article. Sorry, folks.

That was really beautiful, Nathan. Thanks for sharing.

Actually, I'd throw in that they're still rocking XWings, and TIE Fighters. After 50 years, you'd think they'd all come up with something newer.

The thing is not "graphics aren't important", they are important, but they aren't the most important part of a game.

Yup. If gamers want video games to be treated seriously, they're going to need to learn to deal with the critical eye being turned on them. Games aren't some sacred medium which prevents people from analyzing them, and now that more and more people are looking at games and the industry from a critical perspective, it…

Don't you love how they cry about people trying to censor video games (while ignoring that only a government has the power to censor so at worst the industry won't change anything or might go "well, this would piss off a bunch of people, let's make it less offensive" and at best "we're better than this, so let's make…

I don't think it's so much about changing current games as it is getting people to think differently about future games. It's like movies, when someone says that there aren't enough women in movies they usually aren't talking about redoing older movies to have more female characters, or even changing movies that…

Did no one else critique and discuss films in middle school, high school, college? Analyzing gender roles is like literacy 101, and the games industry has grossed more annually than Hollywood for a few years now. Gaming has grown up. It's part of the culture. People are going to deconstruct it and write about it for…

Games are a consumer product, ergo consumers are free to voice their opinions and concerns about said product. By telling people who think games have a problem with women on multiple levels to make their own game, you are telling them that they should just shut up if they don't like it. No one is being forced to do…

But your examples still don't really show how it's a good argument. You can criticize a piece of art if you think it (or a specific aspect of it) is bad.

"Don't complain about stale food if you're not a chef."

This is a dumb argument and you should feel bad for making it.

"Why don't you create your own music instead of complaining about it?"

"Well why don't you become a chef before saying the food's stale?"