Probably. I have a hard time keeping up with multiplayer games for exactly that reason. When I first get the game, I can have some fun because everybody sucks like me. But then, after 5 or 6 weeks, when all the teens/jobless twentysomethings have absolutely mastered the game, I get ruthlessly slaughtered and just give…

Yeah, the final boss was a little bit easy. But it was still way more challenging than the final boss in the 2nd game. At least this one required (slightly) more technique than simply pointing the Hammer of Dawn at something for 10 seconds.

Well, yes, but even just the simplistic theme that both sides are genocidal assholes is more interesting to me than:

I like to think of the sawed-off as a reason to avoid close combat, and try to flank, or out maneuver your enemy. And besides, I have a job, and other interests. I have no desire to spend 7 hours a day playing gears of war, and the sawed-off actually gives me a chance to enjoy myself in multiplayer. Instead of being…

I totally did not know that. Then I change my response. Yes, in light of this new information, apparently there was a undercurrent of leering sexism. It fits in nicely with the undercurrents of classism, racism, and fascism.

I don't know… Gears of War has always been a little borderline racist. I mean, why was Dom's wife Maria? Is it just assumed that a hispanic man would marry and idealize someone named after the Blessed Virgin herself? Why couldn't she have been called Ashley. Or Kaitlin. What a bunch of racists.

In all honesty, there's a lot from the second game's story that I want to forget. Especially that Dom storyline. Ugh.

And yeah, I kinda didn't get what was up with Jace. Where the fuck did he come from? I don't remember him from the first two games, and I (wrongly) predicted that he was just there to be the first act's redshirt.

Haha, the women were definitely a little shoehorned in, but I don't think that there was any sexism intended. I don't believe that the female characters ever really "needed a man's comforting touch" and in my playthrough, Anya was always reviving my downed ass (although it could just be that I'm a shitty player).…

I doubt that you will find very many ardent Avatar defenders on this website.

Avatar was a boring, heavy handed mishmash of Dances with Wolves and Halo. That being said, it was pretty fucking impressive seeing it in 3D. I haven't seen it since it was in theaters, and I will most likely never see it again because I hated the story, the characters and pretty much everything about it (except for…

All the games have had a ton of cutscenes. The storytelling has always been way over the top. If you like the campaign, then it's just part of the charm, but if you don't, then I can definitely see where it would get annoying.

I fucking love this game. Despite all the macho posturing and ridiculous storytelling, I've always been shocked by just how dark Gears of War is. The campaign tells the bleakest, most hopeless story I've ever seen in a video game. Gears never sugar coats anything, every victory for your side is straight up genocide…

"I'm boycotting Whole Foods. I just found out that only 2/3rds of the trash in the recycle bin actually goes to recycling."

I was raised as a devout Catholic. Years of catechism installed a deep seated mistrust of any religion that involves singing, smiling, and rock music in place of deep, reverent, crushing guilt and long, memorized prayers.

@avclub-f6200f1070520617ac55cacf7b146c53:disqus modern politics are very divisive by design: conservatives vs. liberals, fascism vs. communism, evangelical vs. godless atheist. 
Many people enjoy, and are inspired by reductive politics boiled down to the simplest issue. This sort of lowest-common-denominator pandering…

Martin Luther King was a highly intelligent man, and he recognized religion as a useful tool for organizing people.

Religion is like anal sex. It's slightly painful, messy and nobody wants to hear you talk about it, but as long as you keep it behind closed doors, it's just fine.

Congratulations, you sir have made a comment that is both witty, and succeeds at saying something about Christian hypocrisy that has never been said before.

Pretty much. Marc Forster is one of my least favorite directors currently working. His movies are aggressively boring, pandering, and preachy attempts at Oscar bait.