FWIW, teriyaki (the sauce) is fairly ubiquitous in China. There's a ton of crossover in Asian cuisine.

If you genuinely can't afford it, there are subsidies in place, paid for largely by the people who CAN afford it paying into the system.

I agree with your first part. But, to be fair about PC gamers: If Jesus appeared from the clouds and cured poverty, disease, famine, and hunger, PC gamers would be spamming Kotaku within ten minutes claiming that "the end of famine had the potential to be good, but without the ability to mod it on my PC, it's useless…

No, you are definitely not alone. It really seems like someone at Gawker Media is on the the take, owns stock in Sony, or some other payola-related scam going on. Maybe that's just how they get page clicks?

Fortunately, it can't do that unless you let it. There was a whole article about it just yesterday, btu a lot of people didn't bother reading past the title or the lede.

Not only was he commenting on the review itself rather than screaming about the score, he has a valid point: the original reviewer there said the mechanics and playability of the game were fantastic, but he was morally opposed to the characters and story. I think that's a legitimate criticism of the original article.…

That's EXACTLY how I feel about it. I'm a grown man with a teenaged kid, a wife, two jobs and three dogs. My free time is valuable — gaming time even more so — and I don't want to waste what little gaming time I have with a dinky little thing made solely for children to use when riding the school bus.

I don't have anything to wax philosophic about, nor even anything witty to say. It's a fascinating question, though, and a well-written essay.

One of my favorites:

My phone has a camera constantly pointed at something. And my iPad. And the computer I'm typing on.