[copies and pastes every IGN forum debate over the last 15+ years on this topic]

Dreamcast started it with Microsoft’s partnership with Sega. Before the system went under, there was all sorts of fancy talk about an external hard drive, and it was the first system to have internet connection. Plus, I contend that Microsoft is what brought in the floodgates of PC devs into the console market. Prior…

It’s always a crap move, no different in logical form than conservatives bitching about LGBT people being “biased” about gay marriage. Difference in fundamental life experience is not a bias and never will be, and cannot be dismissed because it counters an argument. (To crib Ben Franklin, rationalism is the last…

Yup, although I’ll add that a surprising number of them are older folks who had kids, and now feel like they’re entitled to a child-free existence because they’re over it. They also nag on about how children today are so much less disciplined than in their time because they’ve conveniently forgotten a) what it was…

I don’t understand why releasing it on deadline is the end-all now. Games - including PC games - used to be delayed and it was just a fact of life. Most gamers were fine with it so long as it wasn’t a massive delay and it meant the kinks were worked out. Nowadays with digital downloads it makes even less sense to have…

YOUR HAPPINESS IS IRRELEVANT ALBERT! YOU MUST WRITE PIECES IN EXACTLY THE WAY I LIKE OR I WILL CONTINUE TO BITCH ANONYMOUSLY!

you forgot about the part where if you have the audacity to say a peep about how any of this is bullshit, you get told by a bunch of fuckwit kids who are younger than the Tekken disc you still have lying around somewhere that you’re not a real gamer or a technophobe.

didn’t you get the memo? If you expect a system to be easy to set up and play, you’re just a technophobic n00b and not a “real” gamer. I was really hoping that with the increasing sophistication of console games starting in the late 90s that this would be put to rest. Instead, fucking Microsoft jumped in and consoles…

OMG just learn some technology bro quit being such a fosil!1!

then don’t read it

I want Albert to do video game and system reviews forever, and to have defensive gamers come on here and entirely miss the point in perpetuity. Can this be a regular thing?

There aren’t two sides to the issue of breast cancer.

Fuck off

They don’t need to be in front, but they also don’t need to be burying things in the background. The reason why people get so furious at the Ravens or countless college programs is that they have obstructed investigations and engaged in public obfuscation than just owning up to it. That’s even more fucked up, because…

It’s not just entertainment, but any sort of societal contribution. James Watson unraveled DNA, but is a racist prick. Martin Luther was an anti-Semite who believed in drowning kids he perceived as retarded. Lewis Carroll was not only a brilliant author, but also an influential mathematician and likely a pedophile.…

Exactly. Just like crashing into the catcher at home plate, it was always a bullshit play because it’s not allowed at any of the other bases and ruins the quality of gameplay with a hamfisted tactic that requires no skill (basically, knocking the shit out of an opposing player). And of course retired nitwit players…

It’s not fucked up, but it’s more nuanced than that. Even with basketball and baseball the U.S. has fallen behind in technical development because while we have lots of kids playing those sports nonstop, we don’t really cultivate the talent that well. The European powers have gotten really good at taking the…

Great read, thanks for sharing. There’s a lot of parallels with the U.S. today - too much power in the hands of local and regional amateur associations, not enough unified development, and too quick to blame vague sociological trends instead of recognize there’s talent that just needs to be worked in the right way. I…

If the former Vice President can use 24 to justify unconstitutional antiterrorism policies, I don’t see why the NYPD can’t use Law and Order to vindicate tackling a guy for a white-collar crime.

The inverse is also true - whatever Packer advises against, said recipient succeeds. See: George Mason University, 2006.