Rihanna's voice is so cool. And has so much character!

I watched hoping the house would literally fall on them.

State your sources. If you're going to make a bold statement like that, surely you have the data to back it up?

Absolutely. No question about that. Art and media usually change our perceptions in more subtle and insidious ways though in my opinion. Nothing so obvious and direct as playing violent video games making people violent. People are not even desensitized by violence in games / media / art. They are desensitized to it…

But do they though? This leaves the player with an unpleasant feeling at the end, a feeling that the mind would rather not experience again, if possible. I would agree with you if the player was rewarded for suicide, because the brain would positively reinforce those actions with dopamine (the body's happy chemical),…

Actually you can have it both ways. I didn't say that art (video games or otherwise) doesn't have any effect on people. A movie or game can make you laugh, cry, feel outrage, pity, make you contemplative or evoke a wide range of other reactions to it. But there is a difference between being affected by something…

Ok, I mistook you saying these kinds of things alarm you as condemnation rather than just commentary.

Now, hold on. Yeah, these don't cause anyone to do anything, but if we want video games to be considered art, then we have to accept that they can affect us. That's what art DOES. We can't have it both ways.

Yeah it's true that people with mental illnesses or a propensity to harm themselves might be negatively impacted by something like this. But I don't think that's reason to condemn it. Something can be disturbing and still worthwhile. Whether that "worth" is purely entertainment or to elicit an emotional response or…

In ten years the Oculus Rift will be standard issue gaming gear, and video game graphics will be indistinguishable from photographs.

Downloaded it after reading the first paragraph, and...kinda feel like that game took a little bit of me with it. Ugh. Then I read the alternate ending. Brutal.

As a person who has lost a best friend via hanging, this triggered a pretty tough emotional suppression, as I am at my work desk...

Wait, you mean I'm NOT supposed to lick everything when I'm dining in Scotland? Stupid lying guide book!

Chocolate challah is a thing that exists:

Me three! I'm convinced that Pinkham is conducting some sort of Pavlovian experiment with the food pics he puts in these columns.

I used to think it was chocolate bread when I was a little kid. Oh, the disappointment.

Nah, freehand blow torch. It's amazing what you can accomplish.

Aliens, man. Aliens.

Posted this last week but it was late and I'm in the greys so I guess no one ever saw it... will try again