I can understand some people liking the bling, but there's a wide gap between just sad and cool, and people manage to fill everything in between.

I can just fathom their reasoning.

Precisely. Which is why that's what I call that a convoluted coincidence. Not randomness. That's exactly the debate about determinism :P

Well, the removal of randomness indeed makes skill the only deciding factor. The physical aspect is something I remember the Olympics to hold in high regard, but any skill could potentially suffice. It's just the fact the first sports were physical that we make that assumption, in my opinion.

What you're talking about isn't randomness though. The physics of the world aren't random, unless you go into quantum mechanics which I warned was a bad idea.

No problem. I'm flattered :)

I'm surprised there's so much confusion around this.

There's this whole universe of untapped potential, in which famous voices actually go into these rooms and pretend to be sound boards.

For a second there I thought that was an in-game model of a headset and a mouse. Then I realised the real ones actually looked like that, and chuckled.

I'll hook onto this and add that he actually explains somewhere else where his argument comes from. It's not a problem for him that some of it is expressly made for a male audience, it's that those examples make up the vast majority of content available. He makes that point about female characters, but it goes for…

It's not about guilt. It's about awareness of the status quo.

I like multiplayer fps games, but good ones are few and far between too. I played CS:S, UT99, Q3:TA (not the original Q3), and all the major battlefield iterations (1942, 2, 2142, 3)

Gabe did an interview over skype with a classroom of kids, and one of the most interesting things he talked about was the whole sales thing.

I concur. Most use of this acronym I've encountered has contained the number 2, so as not to confuse with FTP games. You can have FTP games, where you upload documents and have people refresh on other computers! Not sure why people are up in arms about this, it's always been "F2P" from what I can tell.

I was modding source with and launching my own mod with steam before orange box came out. How's about some love for everybody who has installed Source SDK xD

You never do, obviously. Can't be 100% sure, but the longer it stays dormant, the less likely it is to be there. The more correct statement would indeed be, I have suffered no ill effects from viruses.

Sweet, so as far as game-side is concerned, only actually hacking is bannable, so long as you boost/cheat/glitch for the express purpose of trolling (so not for the purpose of gaining experience or leveling, etc.)

In some cases that may very well be the case, but I've also noticed cracks being flagged even before a game is released. It's almost always a trojan with a low risk low infection low damage assessment. But I definitely agree never to accept an "it's safe" argument as proof. I generally just don't care if my pc gets…

It kind of reminds me of Evony, but then without the faces... Only redeeming quality being that this character actually does exist in the game (right?), which couldn't be said for Evony.