Also, and my memory here is hazy, but I believe can recall that it was implied that her promotion to the Missouri's command was because an admiral wanted to bone her.

Yes. The battleship (USS Missouri) is a real museum today though it is a functioning ship. When Mei Ling was given command, the ship was repurposed as a training vessel. After SOP hit the fan, Mei Ling took it on her own initiative to bring the Missouri into battle since it was one of the only pieces of military kit…

and I'll post again so you and I (mostly I) can just have this conversation all week.

I just wanted to add: one of the things that stuck with me the most when I first played MGS4 was Meryl's design. You can see it really well when she's in her wedding dress. I personally find her very sexy, but I don't feel she was "eroticized." In fact what stands out to me in that scene is how very muscular and…

Firstly, the battleship she commands is a museum/tourist attraction re purposed as a living training ground, not a deployed-in-naval-combat battleship. Anyway, I never saw Mei Ling as "bumbling." She's incredibly tough, resolute, and damn smart. She has a lot to prove, mostly to herself, due to her own insecurities…

It is actually super complicated. I wish you could see the screens with the flowcharts that describe what an "order" has to do to go from creation to completion. If what she told you is true, and your account got officially "cancelled" then a new install/connect order would have to be created. It goes across a…

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What standard are you appealing to here ras? Who decides what is a "complete" game? It seems like you think you do.

Words are arbitrary units of meaning and nothing more. In this context "raped" does not mean the same thing it means in the really nasty context. It is therefore a wholly different word with the same spelling and pronunciation. The fact that both words came from the same or anything like that is just trivia. Nobody…

I think everyone's falling for the troll because we're not talking about assassin's creed III or any of Stephen's commentary. Sorry this happened to your article, Stephen. At any rate, yes, please do more like this. It's really cool to know what I'm seeing. Maybe some will complain about spoilers, but I say it's a…

Gala contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at 18 meters becomes the portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

Have you ever heard of Natural Selection?

I just think "old-fashioned orbital bombardment" is really funny.

It's not. When you put different letters than the letters you should have put, (when you misspell a word) you have a spelling error. "Witch" and "which" are different words, which are spelled differently. The key concept here is spelling. It doesn't matter if your error happens to also form an English word.

I would like if you could give us some more specific examples of what Halo does right rather than what COD does wrong, in your opinion. If I had to defend the series I'd say that it's very simple to unlock all the perks, weapons, etc, and let the competitors choose from the newly-leveled playing field.

No, but the victim's life now has no value. It's gone. A sunk cost. It would be pretty stupid to make anymore investments into it. Now the killers, they're not dead yet.

It's good that you brought up the helicopter pilots, because there's quite a lot more to that story than what Wikileaks decided to put up initially. I'll paraphrase Penn Gillette.

Banks used to give away free checks, too. Welcome to 2011

That's actually a very ignorant thing to say. Ubisoft made assassin's creed for chrissakes. How's that for international?

I think you made a pretty dumb claim in the beginning which (like or not) did boil down to "valve games are too mainstream for my tastes and anyone who doesn't respect a weirdo anime fan is a racist" (lolwut) and have now been forced to defend it. Everything you've said is silly, you are wrong about how Valve makes…