Ah, and the fundamental differences between our philosophies emerge.

Ah, you're right. My materialistic barb actually makes zero sense because the royal family is actually very economically productive for the UK. But then, so was slavery, but everyone kinda decided that was wrong and stopped. The UK lags behind most of the rest of the world on the ethics of royalty issue.

You're right, I shouldn't have said "taxpayer funded" because it's a gross oversimplification and a diversion from the actual point: it's fucked up to have a royal bloodline in a secular democracy on ethical socio-political grounds because it promotes leader personality cults as well as inherited inequality.

Exactly!

I'm sure he has downtime, and he is indeed entitled to do whatever he wants in that time. My comment was a barb at gaming's immaturity as an artform and the privileged lifestyle of the royal elite (which was hinted at by the helicopter reference). I wasn't purposefully insinuating that gaming is exclusively a waste of…

Maybe if I told you I'm English you would see the bitter irony in my use of the word 'slob'? ;)

Why would a diplomatic representative of both the British royal family and the UK in general waste time on a gaming console?

Actually, in Fable 1, you can't have a child - no matter how much sex you have.

Well you see, the people complaining about one thing are DIFFERENT to the people complaining about the other thing.

Lego AoE. Lego Galactic Battlegrounds. Lego BFME. Lego Warcraft and Starcraft...

Sure, yeah, cool, whatever.

When it came time to find a job, Koinuma's parents informed him that they did not want him working at a company that was not publicly traded on the stock market. This comes from the Japanese mentality that parents generally want their children to work at large public companies that offer more security. Recalls…

Oh god, don't even entertain the notion. People might get comfortable with sex.

"I guess the takeaway is that at Crytek, we hire passionate people that really give a crap about the things they're doing," Esteves said. When we feel they need to work overtime, Crytek takes care of us. And it's really that simple. [The tweet] kind of got blown out a little bit, as is the case on the internet these…

Before any (further) heated discussion of homelessness, I would like to remind everyone that it's an incredibly complicated issue, limiting the value of any opinion not coming from an expert.

No.

Holy shit. Are they just testing what they can get away with now?

Follow your curiosity and you will learn. Dismiss your curiosity, fight against it, read stuff that doesn't interest you? I can't see that ending constructively.

Ah, thanks man. I don't know what my original point was when I started writing it, but I finished writing it mainly to help myself think through the paradoxical love that defines my relationship with my childhood games. It definitely helped a great deal.

Normal people, scary world, 10% fiction. This is a fucking amazing show and I want season 2 NOW.