Wolverine wakes up in the future — but it's all changed. Jean Grey is alive. Hooray! Scott Summers is also alive. Boo. Kelsey Grammar makes an appearance, as does Anna Pac-man's Rogue. The second two X-Men movies have effectively been retconned out of existence (the first still happens, because Rogue has her white…

A fireman pulling me out of my burning home at great risk to himself is heroic. A fireman who died trying to save me from my burning home is a martyr. A fireman who saves me from my burning home and then sticks around in the flames afterward is a masochist.

What kind of bullshit is that.. In no way he has been solely influenced by video games. Hell, if there were no video games, he might have been influenced by heroes of ancient myths or whatever other stories. Fact is, everyone has been influenced by things you might consider immature, but that doesn't make one immature…

If this were 1776, they'd all be loyalists. They'd be calling for Jefferson's head on a pike and denouncing the founders as domestic terrorists fighting against their king, George III, who was a swell guy.

If you were going to sell intel to the Chinese and the Russians, that ridiculous meme that's been spreading around, why the hell would you publicize it? Isn't the intel no good the second the NSA knows it's been leaked and they can change around their systems? If he wanted to 'give shit' to the Chinese and the…

If you think America is altruistic, there's some Japanese Interment camp survivors I'd like you to meet, and a whole mess of dead Iraq and Afghanistan civilians. Oh, and a couple of American citizens who were extra-judicially executed via drone.

and their ignorance, holy shit they're ignorant fucks.

I have replied to a couple of these and I'm just going to put my peace on this out there.

Funny, most responses on this article call him a traitor for "running away to Russia/China with state secrets", "taking asylum in Russia", "putting lives at risk". He doesn't have any documents, they are all in the hands of Greenwald and Poitras. Russia was the only place offering him asylum. No one has been put in…

Given that the Metal Gear Solid series has carried a consistent and powerful message of socio-political corruption, I think you're missing why it's a valid point of inspiration.

There evidence to the contrary that he gave info to China. The US stranded him in Russia, that wasn't his choice he wanted to go to a good civil rights country with general western ideals but those countries had a good chance of kneejerk handing him over. China was one of the few countries that would take time to…

As a veteran, I disagree on all counts. For starters, the public had every right to know the extent of domestic spying.

Wow... Sorry, but that has to be the worst argument ever. You just blanket - generalize - that video game cannot carry moral or political statement good enough to act upon.

Before people were inspired by video games, they were inspired by pulp comic books, Sherlock Holmes novels, and The Ramones.

Yes, misdirect and blame the messenger. That's the ticket.

"Don't run to major geopolitical competitors and peddle secrets to them in exchange for physical security; that makes you a traitor -AND- a delusional idiot."

And you're an ignorant piece of shit, nothing more.

The NSA is specifically forbidden in its charter from collecting signals intelligence on Americans.

Edward Snowden = Hal Emmerich.

You'd think you were a Tom Clancy style hero too if you lived in Hawaii, dated a stripper and simultaneously pulled down the pants of the most powerful government on Earth before pulling a thrilling escape to Hong Kong before anyone knew what was happening.