It sounds like you’ve not been to many social gatherings with a wide range of interests amongst the attendees. I’ve been to a social gathering talking to people about rebuilding motors and had a man come up and join the conversation because he knew one of the people talking, not because he had any idea about cars. To…

While I agree with your intent, I must add that girls/women do game quite a lot, just not in a way that they sit around and talk about. They play lots of mobile/phone/casual games. But few will sit around the water cooler reveling in their last great sessions of bejeweled, candy crush, or free cell. But people like…

Let’s be real...most women don’t play video games..and women are a small percentage of gamers...why is that wrong to say? I literally have known maybe a handful of girls my entire life who game...as long as your not excluding women from games I don’t see the issue....most black people ain’t into hockey either “gasp”

You wouldn’t. I really think this is some kind of recommendation based on a feminist view of perceived equal treatment. But I don’t even assume it of a guy so I similarly won’t assume it of a girl. Where he goes wrong is by assuming it of a guy. He then compounds the mistake by trying to give equal treatment to…

You are correct. Your social graces are well formed. I think Kirk’s suggestion is informed by some strange feminist concern about equal treatment, but totally misses the reality of social discourse.

This. We can act like gaming is that ubiquitous but it absolutely isn’t.

I don’t know how old Kirk is or where he lives, but regardless of sex, people who regularly play video games are a small minority in my age group and location (mid 30's midwestern U.S.). Also, over half the employees at my company are women and I know with absolute certainty that none of them play video games (as in,…

Agreed. Asking a woman “do you play video games?” is not an assumption that she does not play video game. It’s the opposite. It’s keeping an open mind about whether she might play video games. If you had made the assumption that she does not, then you wouldn’t bother asking.

Absolutely agreed, gaming may be more mainstream these days but gaming as a hobby is still something left for the minority of people. There are 14 people sitting around me right now in my team’s office, and 12 of them do not play video games, while I am not sure about the remaining two. The only time I would start…

“Don’t ask, “do you play video games?” Instead, ask, “what kind of games do you play?””

Pretty sure the game will be a mix of classic open world gameplay with scripted QTE’s and Uncharted like moments. I swear people get waaay worked up over trailers to much these days.

I’m not sure what people want anymore. The animations looked fluid, the transitions from sequence to in-game were flawless, and the combat looked varied/spiderman-y.

I don’t really see the point in dog piling on her. Everything she said seemed pretty valid to me - in the original post she mentioned the “blood coming out of wherever”, and you just think it’s a coincidence she’s wearing a pussy bow?

I would say this review is not indicative of the actual fun this game offers. There are a ton of people enjoying this game (check out the F13 Reddit.) You are supposed to work together, as the only way to kill Jason is through teamwork. If no one is communicating then of course the game will suck but I think this game…

Love your slippery slope logical fallacy there. It’s not a preemptive measure. Telling someone they did something wrong without ruining their lives is not sanctioning the behavior, if someone continues then yes feel free.

Feels more like the decade of PC police deciding what’s acceptable to say on the internet, a one-time bastion of free speech.

It’s also the decade of publically shaming people for making dumb jokes, which results in their lives being destroyed and people losing their jobs solely for trying to make a joke. But hey, at least people on Twitter/Facebook/etc. now are able to pretend they’re on higher moral ground by shaming others.

There’s a difference between absolute realism and immersion. If something is believable within the confines of the mechanics of a fictional world, it won’t break immersion, even if it’s something that isn’t present in real life. Otherwise no one could ever get into Fantasy or Science-Fiction. But when a representation…

It’s not about immersion, it is about bombing the entire city with fire and seeing some stupid kids surviving no matter what you do. Or having dragon attack and when it clearly could have killed the kid, the kid didn’t die. It’s about random stuff that can happen and make the gameplay more fun.

And once again, my father, who, as I have said before on other posts, predicted Trump’s nomination, win, and Russian connections (“there are too many Russians in this campaign”), was right - he also predicted that Trump would blab top secret information to either reporters or foreign countries. He’s been right about…