You OUGHT to blush, Average America. There have been many literary hacks, but none of them have taken hackish hackery to quite the same hacktastic level as RA "Hack" Salvatore.

Mahabharata notwithstanding. Not that was pieced together over hundreds of years and represents a vast accumulation of Hindu thought. This, not *quite* so consequential.

There appear to be two different meanings of "offensive" in play here. You write that "it came off less like ironic racism and more as good, old-fashioned, butter-your-cornbread-with-it racism," which by which I assume you mean "offensive" [a], unless you find unironic racism to be perfectly unobjectionable (maybe…

This is strange.
I'm sensitive about racial issues—hypersensitive, a lot of posters here would undoubtedly say. I found the Whale Wars episode absolutely intolerably offensive. What I'm saying is, don't fuck with my PC bona fides!

Lots of bad things also. Too.

One of my most irritating students ever was a big fan of this band.
That's all I know and all I care to know.

My favorite part…
Andy's finely-tuned ability to distinguish between different southern accents.

Yeah, I dunno. Unmotivated cruelty doesn't do much for me, humorwise. Why em em vee.

This shit is too old for me.

IT MIGHT.

If only they hadn't been under the delusion that they DID have a great story to tell, and thus mucked it up with irritating, pretentious bullshit…

I'm a vegetarian.
Why? Because I don't think it's right that animals should be tortured and killed for my benefit. I can totally see why meat eaters would get defensive when it's put like that, but what else am I supposed to say? We all know the shit that goes down to provide us with meat; if you want to eat it…

I have to agree. The question of whether Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 is very troubling to me. Now—that's not to say that I *believe* these accusations—in fact, I think Glenn Beck probably *didn't* rape and murder a young girl in 1990. But why won't Beck address the question, when it would be…

Whereas Jack London met his end when his fire-starting attempts went comically awry.

Wow! That IS a great idea! Thanks, spambot!

Not saying the dude isn't smart, but as I said, I think he often gets so far into theory and removed from the games himself that the point is somewhat lost (as a student of literature and theory, this is a common spectacle to me). Also, he BADLY needs an editor—just because some random brain fart came into your head…

Dude loves Canabalt to excess. I often get the impression that he bases his game-related opinions on theoretical abstractions rather than actual, visceral…goodness.

That actually sounds like to me like a totally sweet idea for a game.

My complaint is that it didn't get uncomfortable ENOUGH. That scene in the British Office would have *lingered,* and it would have been *sheer torture.*

I almost want to say the potential was *squandered,* but that might be going TOO FAR.