Your reply is basically a non-sequitur. You could replace the word "game" with the word "toy" in the original sentence, and none of the meaning would change. Being informed by or commenting on culture does not require something to be art.

One of these days, makers of various forms of art will admit what everyone who studies the fields already knows: reinforcing the social status quo while claiming challenging it would be making "social commentary" is in and of itself a powerful and subtle form of social commentary.

This was just a topic of conversation among some people I know on Facebook. Quit stalking my friends.

Marklar.

The Hobbit: Keepin' up with the Kardashians

He's a very similar color, and this is America. I'm not convinced.

His dawning awareness that a trip to Norway will be necessary got itself 5,110 retweets. I find that more disturbing than the content.

Is naval-gazing the maritime equivalent of train-spotting?

It floors me that this show is still covered and getting good reviews.

I find that says less about Halifax than it does Celine Dion. She sells out a concert but won't play it because people that aren't going don't like her? Way to screw her fans.

The proper answer is no? That's just so wrong, it's improper. In any story-telling medium, the ending can ruin the story. Some may decide to still enjoy the journey; others end up feeling like the journey was just a giant circle or a total waste of time. Others might find an ending betrays the rules and premises a…

Oh man, age can be negative now?

L2 orbit or you're no real space pope.

Get this girl a paper bag. She's not famous anymore.

More of a tangent to the book than based on it. If it was based on it, it would be a documentary about magical monsters: it's not.

Could they all die? They'd have more depth as zombies.

The two main guys from Stryper sang hymns they accompanied with acoustic guitars at my cousin's wedding. My cousin is both a born again and the owner of the studio recording their "comeback" albums.

It was hard for me to figure out when the sarcasm kicked in, but once I got it, I got it.

This is actually the one issue, likely out of all issues in all of time and space, for which I agree with PETA's solution.

While they are grandkids or great grandkids, the original characters are only rarely referenced. Luke's ghost appears in the first Legacy series a few times. But even with that, it's a really new universe and not very referential — it's not the oversimplified black and white of all Star Wars that has come before. …