You could be right. It might also be the financial crisis saved us a social bubble to begin with. Or at least kept it to a minimum.

I'm not saying people don't want them. They do. I'm saying they think there's more of a market than there is, and they're flooding it like Activision flooded the music games market. Judging a market by the merits of a singular success (Zynga) is rarely a good idea.

I'm still waiting for the social bubble to burst. I have a feeling they're overestimating the social games market.

I think the more interesting question is, why do you call this a console?

I was going for an economic bubble, but sure! Bubble wrap rules.

I like the chorus of this song, but the verses not so much...

Wait for it...

I'd actually buy a vita if I could afford one. Never really felt that way about a handheld before.

Oldest rule in the korean mmo playbook. The heavier the armor, the less of it there is. At least for some classes/races...

The networking side of this isn't even the hard part. What people want from a mutliplayer inclusion in a game like this is actually play together, not play separately in the "same" world. Unless you manage to integrate a system where you can share quests one person doesn't have, or redo ones somebody else has already…

I for one did both. I pre-ordered it, but downloaded it early. Shame on me :P

I was going to make a comment about the minesweeper chrome ordeal, until I saw your name. Nice one :P

Yeh no shit, I found one of the ugliest parts of Skyrim on the steps up to see the greybeards. It looked like somebody had taken an iron ingot and turned it into huge stone stairs, the pixels were so enormous.

[Insert overly defensive badly written reaction]

Hah, after so much time I still remember that mission with the noodle shop guy. I remember hating the way I coudn't run my car into his buddies.

Where exactly did they announce this? Is there anywhere you can actually sign up for beta as of yet?

I further point to the "traditional stereotypes" in that sentence. That's the playing field we're trying to address.

I did not mean unconscious in the individual meaning of the term. I meant it in a cultural sense. Cultural heritage is largely "unconscious". And a lot of things pertaining to gender are cultural.

The answer is complicated I guess. The shorthand trivia answer? Narcissism.

However eye-opening your individualistic approach to this subject is, it fails to address the sociological implications of a large group of individuals acting in this manner, which when combined with the opinions of people that actually care about society as a whole pose a serious problem. A problem which is usually…