@Point-3: Waiting for the other lane to clear makes sense. People switch lanes all the time and they have the right of way. It's smart, defensive driving to anticipate possible actions.

@Caleb Goessling: It worked fine on my macbook. I'm guessing it's a glitch.

@cec: That's actually the exact point I was making. In my example, you would be Type 1. Once you had the income to afford games, you stopped pirating.

@zack10house: Hmmm, why did I think there was a dedicated Queen game? Maybe I got mixed up.

@MightyShamus: That would have been my guess, but the statistics in this article were directly derived from how many copies were bought vs. downloaded. Therefore, the implication is that even if someone downloads a copy on two different computers for themselves, they are counting that as a pirated copy.

@Splotch Eleven: I wasn't trying to justify the piracy, I was simply trying analyze the behavior. Saying that piracy is an inevitable reality does not mean that I think that it's ok to do.

@LNA-Big_D: It's true that people find a way to be offended by everything, but given all the games out that that have "gotten away with it", there isn't a strong case to be be made that including women in a violent game will automatically ignite controversy. Even with Gears, the decision is only being scrutinized on…

@jetmorrison: For the exact same reasons why character customization matters. If you don't understand why women would want the option to express themselves through their character, then you should be asking why the developers bothered to spend all the time and money to develop and market the feature.

@vidhagans: This is a video game blog and there are clearly people who care. How do you derive the conclusion that the only people who care don't play games?

@bowen13: Female. I agree with the article completely.

@Gofygure: I would echo cassiebear. If the developer includes character customization, then with that comes the implication that it is an important part of the game experience. To imply that the feature is important and then to exclude an entire gender from that experience indicates that the developer has made the…

@LNA-Big_D: I've played many games where you could play as a female who could be beat up or killed and not once have I even seen anyone "make a fuss" about violence against women for this reason. Do you have examples of why anyone would have any reason to think this would actually happen?

@RuneX21: As far as I know, men in real life can't take 10 bullets without being affected, regenerate health, jump once and then again in midair, fight while carrying 200lbs worth of crap, etc.

@Auouywonz: If how the character looks is not important, than why would they bother putting all the resources into developing and hyping the character customization? The avatar obviously matters to enough people to justify the inclusion of the feature, so that is not the issue. The issue, as the article point's out,…

@SpaceNinjaDino: What about when you have more than one viewer?

I have a friend with a fungal infection who has to get monthly injections in her eye in order to not go blind. Currently there is no cure so she will have to do that for life.

I think there are a few reasons for this that weren't mentioned in the wolfire article. First off, while the attempt here is to remove the barrier of cost, the 1 cent can be a barrier nonetheless for people who are too young to have a credit card or who do not do much online shopping and therefore might not have…

I do think they ought to change the name to something that is more obviously distinguishable from DS. Now that they've attracted so many "new audiences", I would guess that there would be many people who aren't in the loop enough to realize that while DS, DS lite, DSi and DS XL all refer to essentially the same thing,…

@JayUnreal: Now that blu-ray players are reasonably priced, that seems like somewhat of a waste if that's all you will use it for.

@flox44: That's awesome! Here are some things that I would really like to see: