"What dod you want them to say

I hate when people do this. Explain why you made a decision, but do not INSIST that your decision was the right one and that the critic is wrong. Take the criticism - you're receiving it because you made a decision the consumer disagrees with.

My hopes:

I think the point of the article is that the creators knew that and made a concerted effort to be darker in tone and look.

That would be awesome.

Which is one of the reasons I've been a wee bit uncomfortable with representing fucked up inner city kids as, you know, monsters that smell fear.

That's excellent, especially considering that axolotl tanks were basically women genetically engineered to be huge, braindead wombs.

I think mentat, but when I mentioned sapho juice to him he clarified that when he tweeted that he was thinking more a Guild Navigator peering into the future.

I can't recall a single book I was required to read that was actually bad. Annoying to have to keep up with deadlines rather than read and absorb at my own pace, but never *bad.*

That Katniss is so often so unsympathetic is what made me love the writing.

Is Jeremy Bulloch aware that they'll probably also get someone more Temuera Morrison than him for that?

"Like 90 percent of latinos and blacks voted for Obama.. But were the racist ones.."

Heh.

Only insofar as most marketing hinges on aiming for the lowest common denominator - i.e. people who won't buy a game because 'Murica. They can trust you to hope for something more nuanced while they sell the game to people who don't know what that word means.

No, because nothing about it is a science fail. He just has some problematic beliefs about God.

Interestingly, I also think this article is unfair to Mourdock who, yes, is absolutely an insensitive idiot, but isn't actually betraying a lack of knowledge of how a baby is conceived. His problem is more theological than scientific.

Okay, fine then, this: http://kotaku.com/5949062/heres-the-stuff-from-the-new-assassins-creed-iii-trailer-that-ubisoft-doesnt-want-americans-to-see

"Ubisoft claims that Connor will be fighting both the Colonials and the British, but *every trailer they've shown in the US* has suggested otherwise."

"You're making the mistake of thinking that the entire direction taken with the Prequels wasn't wrong."

It's an adjective meant to invoke the exotic image it literally describes - "Mandarin" was an adjective describing someone of influence (not always actually an official) in the same way that "Turk" meant someone who was brutish or sinful, or how to "turn Jew" was to gyp someone ('gyp' is also a term based in…