Mmmm, sexualization and objectification aren't even hypocritical. Women are humans too and, therefore, they are sexual animals. Sexuality is an aspect of who we all are. Problems occur when you use that sexuality to define who we are. Sexualization without objectification would be an emphasis on a person's…

No. Awareness of the objectification of women comes from feminism. The whole point is that if women are seen exclusively as sex objects then they can't be treated as real human beings.

I think the 1up review is simultaneously pretty spot on and pretty unfair. I played the game at midnight last night and I can certainly agree that there are some bad map-making decisions that occurred and the allied AI is extremely stupid making single player a pain, but to say its totally not worth buying is unfair.

lol dude, that's not broken, that's just personal preference. What's broken is if someone tries to irrationalize your tastes with pseudoscience.

What you miss is that it's not mutually exclusive to believe that something can objectify women and believe that sexuality and sex appeal are reasonable. I'm a Soul Calibur fan, but it is just plain dishonest to say that the game doesn't treat women in an at least somewhat negative/objectified way. Hell, it's almost…

Oh, I won't lie. I loved Tokyo Drift (as a ridiculous action movie) and I am very interested in seeing Fast 5 as some point. I just think this fake trailer is awesome and fits with the 5nal Destination thing.

5nal 5sta5tion reminds me of 3 3ast 3 3urious.

I probably have a looser suspension of disbelief than most other sci-fi fans but I personally never worry much about "scientific" explanations unless it is somehow going against something which was already established in the story. I wasn't saying that I wanted the explanations out of Star Trek (or anything else)…

I more or less agree with that though I take issue with the sort of universalism suggested by terms like "implausible." Where that differs from my interpretation is where it starts to selectively invalidate those things which it terms fantasy. It calls Star Wars "implausible" for never explaining the Force, the…

SF and fantasy are functionally identical (though they are historically/culturally separate). Both are built on laws/understandings of the universe different from the common understanding at the moment of the story's writing. Taken on their own terms, magic in a magical universe is no less realistic than a sentient…

I think people are missing the point. This type of fashion isn't created for the purpose of wearing on the street. This show is probably aimed at being closer to an art gallery installation than it is to a Gap ad.

As far as I follow, wearing these clothes on the street isn't at all the point. Fashion at this level is more exploratory/artistic.

I think this, like most things in the world, can be blamed on the attempt to combine leather and a string-kini.

I had a funeral compounded on top of a thesis that stopped me from attending this... *sad face*

I didn't read the article, but I believe they did (I may be misremembering an article on the Escapist for an article on Kotaku).

As many people are saying, I think it's all about the games being good (works of art). If a story can be grown by a sequel I say go for it (grown, not mined out for every little useless detail; that's what's fan-fiction is for). Some things are good where they are right now and just don't need any more sequels.

lol, awesome work sir. Now I just keep imagining a camera zooming and slowing and zooming and slowing around him while a heavy echoing percussion blasts every few seconds in a slow and weighty rhythm.

Mmmm. I don't think this is a bad idea but I think the emphasis on Minecraft as a brand is a little odd. If you have a kernel of inspiration for a story from Minecraft then I say write the story. Trying to force it just because it's popular and could make money seems like a bad reason to write a story though (and a…

I started to write a quote about a man sensuously punching a woman's underwear off and it was going fine until I started trying to figure out how to use the game's water physics to describe her "excitement." Of course, a man punching a woman's underwear off, now that I see it written down, doesn't sound particularly…

So was this commissioned by Valve or was Palser compelled by pure awesome?