I'm fully aware of it's intent, it's a joke, lighthearted, it turns it around to hopefully make a commercial with a broader appeal. I'm saying, we let jokes slide when we want to. We let it's intention allow us to mark it off as harmless, but when it comes to anything that could potentially alienate a woman, or a be a…

No I got it. Calling it a reversal of norms can allow you to brush it off as a joke, which it is, but my point is that if the roles were really reversed it couldn't just be a lighthearted joke for it's intended audience about sharing an xbox with your significant other. It would be a sexist portrayal of relationships…

I thought the article was going to be about pointing out how unacceptable it would be if the roles were revered in this commercial..... Silly me.

Nah, easy mistake though. Microtransactions have been in f2p games for a while, but the recent commotion is about them being built into full retail games.

Free to play games.

free to play games.

I've heard far more about consoles dying than pc. Lots saying this generation will sell less, and it will probably be the last. Seriously you can look up a few articles. And even beyond articles you get the occasional commenter adopting the position that gaming dedicated devices are no longer viable. I rarely hear…

Everyone get it and get tearaway. And for some ps3 games, and a lot of ps4 games going forward it'll give more value to the smaller digital games when you can play them on another platform. Bought sly cooper tonight for $10 and got both versions.

Oh I know, fantastic bundle and price all things considered.

People seem to easily push that to the side and say that they believe that the consoles will have a lower ceiling. Which is possible but we sold 80 million ps3's, 80 million xbox's, and 100 million wii's. 260 million consoles, almost 100 million more than the gen before it when in a lot of ways console gaming was at…

I'm aware, but they started at 699.99, at a loss. And then came down to 200 in 7 or 8 years. I'm saying, $400 with a loss is a better start and since it won't always cost $400, will probably be good for the console and the market.

Goddamn the ps3 got cheap. It's kind of interesting, after some googling, it seems the ps2 had already gotten down to $200 by 2002. Goddamn consoles were expensive, and even a little insular this gen. $400 for the ps4 is a good start though, I think it can do better despite all the claims that console gaming is…

So the wiiu hasn't sold enough to be a priority, okay thank you.

Ahh thank you for the response.

What's not?

Didn't the new call of duty sell more on the unreleased ps4 than the wiiu? Why would you think they'd sell a lot? Is their frostbite engine compatible with the wiiu even? With the ps4 and xbox they are betting that they'll sell more than the wiiu, and that might even bet true before the year is over.

And the pr department may handle ads but an artist probably designed that character well before they knew a publisher would pick them up, so guess what, you have absolutely ZERO way of knowing whether a character was designed in order to get men to pay money, or if an artist liked this character, wanted her in the…

" Sex isn't always sexy, and sexy isn't always sex." And who's to make the distinction for all of us? You seem to also claim to know the artist's intention beyond any doubt. "I would rather see it used as a item of art, aware of it's fraught social consequences, an exploration of one of the darker sides to human…

"Nobody, child or adult, decides what to be like in a vacuum. Everyone is inspired by someone else, mentored by someone else."

Your post is still just an argument to remove sex from games, movies, all art that's sold. And why is this only applied to sex? Are we not commodifying violence? Human drama? Human suffering? The fact that it's being sold commodifies only the women? Not any of the other characters? How is a woman being sexy make her…