The Oscars have always been shit and have never mattered anyway so does this really matter? The Oscars, like all awards shows, are just a way for Hollywood to congratulate itself every year. If it isn’t Hollywood, it doesn’t really factor into that self congratulation concept, so it’s naturally not going to be as…

I love this comment. This is a great comment.

I don’t think this person likes video games.

Yeah when Psycho first came out people left the movie theaters running because they couldn’t handle the fear. Now, no one is scared of that. Idk what it is about scary movies/games but it be like that.

It was scary at the time man. It was scary if you played it at the time!

Man, Resident Evil has one of the most iconic stories of any game for me, convoluted lore not withstanding! (though I haven’t played past RE4 so the convoluted plot doesn’t play as much into it for me). I mean there are so many zombie stories which have come after it, and they all seem to be basically set in the same…

Yeah there were 3PS games waaay before that. But now I wonder, which one was the first?

Funny thing, I never really noticed the controls were bad. I think I was with video games, and to a certain extent still am, the way I was with movies before I became a movie snob (sorry, I mean film “buff”). That is, you don’t really notice the technical stuff. You just play it and if it clicks for you and has that…

Ma. Maybe it’s because I’m from New York City? I don’t even know where that comes from.

Trust me, they have already seen a lot worse. Plus, Kotaku isn’t really a website for kids. They post the occasional nsfw stuff on here. They’ve covered porn quite a number of times, and though usually give an nsfw warning, they will actually show the images. Yeah it’s true, games/nerd stuff is often associated with…

I think there’s a very big difference between being in a position because you willingly want to be in it vs. being in that position because you are forced into it. Like if I choose to give up all my possessions and become an ascetic, vs. if I have everything stolen from me and become poor. In the former case, I am a…

Just because he’s born in Chicago doesn’t change the fact that Irish river dancing isn’t a typically American form, and hip hop is... What’s hard about this?

Yeah he just pretty much summed up everything. I love this guy!

And to respond to the question of your interpretation, I thought I would leave this in another comment since it would be its own thing and you could read it if you like or ignore it, since it’s fucking long lol (why I didn’t want to go into it).

First, what I meant was lack of nuance with regards to my perspective. I mean I think you don’t have a detailed understanding of what I’m saying, so from your perspective, my argument may be lacking in nuance.

Some of those comments man. This guy said everyday we drift further and further away from God lmao.

The word censorship is used so often by gamers it has pretty much lost all the meaning it once had. That’s why.

That reminds me of Battlestar Galactica where something similar happens. It made me start to realize that perhaps global political situations are much more complex than you maybe tend to imagine, and that if you were in that side and experienced the world from that point of view, maybe you would even turn into the…

Well I didn’t ever want to emphasize narrative over mechanics, but more to say that it is the narrative dimension of games that is political. I tend to look at games as systems of separate, interlocking parts, rather than as pure unities of experience. So like for me, when I play a game, I am not just doing one thing,…

Again, pure conjecture as opposed to what lol? Your interpretation is permeated with politics but I think that at this point, you would disagree regardless of what I or anyone has to say about that. Which is okay! We can agree to disagree. My intent was not to beat you over the head and say you must agree. In fact,…