I rather think that this premise is just too damn goofy, and most of us are old enough that if we wanted to watch porn-- animated porn included!-- we would drop all pretense and watch porn.

Honestly, it sounds like the writers and animators just wanted to write a hentai, but wanted to be able to sell it on the mass market and thus could not quite go all in on that premise. No pun intended.

Don’t forget that Role Playing Games all derive from Dungeons & Dragons, which itself was an expansion of Gary Gygax’s wargame Chainmail.

Well, he and several other novelists of the time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for instance (the guy who wrote Sherlock Holmes) helped create both cosplay as a hobby and the notion of story Canon/Continuity in the sense that Nerds use it today when arguing about comic books and movies. And H.P. Lovecraft and his friends are…

Apparently a lot of people already considered Twin Galaxies to be a corrupt and toxic place with an inner circle that has long been suspected of cheating, so they weren’t the least bit shocked to see it conclusively proven in Jeremy’s case. Because it was created so long ago, it is the only site of its kind that…

No, he’s just a liar. Several of his scores on the website have been proven to be mathematically impossible, not to mention implausible even if the math held up. For instance, if a score goes up by 50 point increments it is impossible to have a score end with the number 90. Yet he did just that. Another one of his…

It is relevant to the story insofar as the guy continually uses the same excuse for why video records of the scores are missing: the cops confiscated all of the judge’s home video tapes as they might have been evidence of his crimes, then failed to return many of the tapes that were irrelevant to the case. However,…

Don’t assume; there are a lot of people who seem to want to hate Tyson for some reason. I’m not a big fan or anything, but to spread unsubstantiated accusations of criminal behavior because you don’t like someone is frankly unethical.

Bright side, Disney threatened to revoke the exclusive license over this shit. If the Belgians decide that this system did qualify as gambling, the House of Mouse will almost certainly follow through on that threat to protect their family friendly image. Because we know that’s just how Disney rolls.

I don’t think you understand: most of this happened before the game launched, and the reason you haven’t noticed a problem is precisely because the system was temporarily turned off at Disney’s request. No one is “blowing stuff out of proportion,” EA specifically wants that to be the new narrative before they turn in…

TBH, that sounds pretty much exactly like the life story of most people who want to compete in professional sports and gaming. Tons of people will make a start as a kid, but only the top 10% or less will make it to the big leagues. And even once you make it to the top competitions and tournaments only one person gets…

For three, it keeps the House of Mouse happy after their executives had a little “chat” with EA’s president where they threatened to pull out of their exclusive deal over the whole affair.

The reason they removed microtransactions for now was that the House of the Mouse started breathing down their necks over the bad publicity in the months leading to Episode VIII. They can and did threaten to back out of their exclusivity deal with EA concerning the Star Wars brand. There is no missing the point when…

Honestly, I think the sports that are literally interpersonal combat (eg. wrestling, Judo, etc.) produce people who are less dickish as well. Probably because they are trained with a different mentality; how good you are reflects on you and only you, and if the sport is based on a traditional martial art the teachers…

Really, when you get down to it all sports start off as Calvinball. Well, everything but combat sports, anyway. Its only once people settle on a set of rules they like that it becomes rigid and competitive garbage.

Everything about Calvin and Hobbes becomes darker if you assume that Hobbes isn’t real. Best not to do that, if you want to enjoy the comic.

My experience was with Soccer, and I have to say that there are levels to the problem. In five years, or however long it was I actually had a team to play with, I never won a single game. My older brother won a couple, but it was a similarly poor showing, and he got to play for longer before his team dissolved. This…

Was looking for this. Wasn’t disappointed. Polybius isn’t an urban legend, its more likely a hoax. Moreover, I think the writer of this article is mistaken about Tempest triggering epileptic seizures (note: according to my neurologist, the actual cause of epilepsy is uncertain). Certainly there were other games…

Yup. I mean, think about it: it looks just as phallic when drawn as sheathed. You think people today are the only ones who noticed how straight and rigid knives and swords are? On many videos about swordsmanship today, you see tons of giggling over the words “thrust” and “tip” even though they are technical terms.…

They are called Bollock Daggers. Yes, they are absolutely supposed to look phallic. Another little known fact about medieval people is that they loved dick jokes even more than we do today. Hell, Shakespear’s work is full of dirty euphamisms and puns most people miss because we don’t speak his dialect properly anymore.