I recognized mostly Streets of Rage, but yea, also Final Fight.

As someone who loves EBM and who grew up on beat-em-up games, it's like this was made expressly for the purpose of giving me orgasms. The only thing it was missing was breaking open trash barrels that for some reason contained fully cooked turkey meals. Also he seems to rely on his special a bit too much. Though that…

No, there are other forms of music, but the reactions of people here who have apparently never heard distorted vocals before are hilarious. They sound like my grandma.

Look, I get that not everyone's into distorted vocals, but could you at least try not to sound like a lame grandma in a small Baptist town when describing music? :-p

My god, none of you idiots are getting the joke. This is a school assignment. It follows the cookie cutter "persuasive essay" formula to a T - state all your supporting arguments in the intro, one paragraph for each supporting argument where the first sentence repeats what you said in the intro, and close with…

Is it really a problem though? It seems like a natural human tendency to want to live in communities that most closely reflect our values and identities. And the same goes both ways. I mean no matter how self-evident liberal values may seem to us, and no matter how much pleasure we get out of condemning 'backwards'…

What's your argument though? That we are morally obligated to maintain a political union with Arizona because there are people there who can't leave and who are better off with people in the blue states fighting for their rights and keeping their own local politicians at bay?

So not only do the pigs enforce their idiotic laws, but they also expect private individuals to do the enforcing for them.

Word.

Yea okay, whatever.

Killingsworth doesn't address the main point of Thomsen's essay but instead seems to rip into it as if it were just another anti-game dinosaur wondering why the kids are wasting their time. This is the part of Thomsen's essay that I found really crucial:

It's times like this that China's harsh bans on religion and mysticism don't seem like such a bad idea after all.

Fully agreed. I love old-school games and grew up on them, but I don't delude myself into thinking they represented some pinnacle of game design. When a game only gives you the option to run and jump, there's not much room for innovation, so 99% of the game will involve timing a jump just right and landing on a…

I feel like I see stuff like this on album covers all the time.

He never had the [axe...the] dwarf had it, and he's not in this game. Trust me, it makes perfect sense.

Wasn't it just Zelda with Golden Axe slapped on top? Wait, what am I saying, that sounds amazing.

I think the nerd rage is predicated on jumping to conclusions like "omg she wants to put everything on kid difficulty and make all the story and dialogue like the Lifetime channel". If she were really saying that, I'd be up in arms too. But I think she highlights an important point that no shortage of hardcore games…

And here I thought this was going to be an in-depth investigation of the balance issues plaguing virtual economies.

Um, Atlas was not an Olympian, he was a Titan. Also, it's spelled "derring-do". God, don't they teach ANYTHING in school these days?

Actually, voting along party lines is a perfectly sound strategy, considering that party membership is an indication of a candidate's ideology and positions and not just an arbitrary label like "favorite Pokemon". The idiots seem to be the ones that are more concerned with their personal vanity in claiming to be above…