Some slight issues with your examples.

Kendo and fencing as currently practiced aren't true martial arts - they're sports. Actual fencing =/= sport fencing and kendo is definitely not kenjutsu. In the process of becoming sportified, they've basically fetishized technique to the point where the actual function of a…

I think people certainly did flourishes during a duel, but definitely not in the heat of combat... not unless you found yourself fighting someone who posed no threat. In effect, the flourish was the old way of teabagging someone in an FPS.

My first reaction was that this would go nowhere... then I actually read their brief letter and found that it doesn't say anything that the title implies. Rather than addressing gamers as a community of douchebags (a la the way everyone does it), this letter simply asks that normal people report said douchebags...…

"Because truly great players are remembered for actions on the field and nothing else"

Fix'd.

+1.

The douchebaggery towards the talentless douchebags makes it too difficult to point out who is a douchebag and why.

The first image is definitely darker for the "new" version... second pic looks pretty even based on the background. Also, it appears that the headphone jack is dead-center on the bottom panel.

edit: Or maybe that's power or something.... I dunno, looks like it has a headphone image beside the jack.

Well, Jade Empire is only 15 dollars on Steam (putting it on the wishlist for a future discount is a good idea) and it's actually an edition we never got. The PC version had a few goodies for coming out late.

The only real issue is that for Windows 7 (and possibly 8, haven't tested on the laptop yet), the game won't…

Well, to be fair, the other stories were good. Just the main quest was a bit meh at times.

Hate to break it to you, but Morrowind (vanilla and later the GotY edition) were available on the Xbox.

I think we may not be using automation the same way? When I hear "automated combat" I think of turn-by-turn games like Dragon Age and KotOR.

As for Morrowind criticisms, I believe the one I saw most often from ES 1 & 2 vets was the removal of older skills... which is basically a criticism of every ES game.

Seems you're right.... strange, I could've sworn that I remember being told to go and improve in the Fighter's guild quests... maybe it was just dialog?

Btw, this chart makes for a surprisingly interesting read.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Differenc…

Oh, and we're forgetting that promotions used to be based on skills. No more ax-happy barbarian master-thieves with zero skills at sneaking, arrow shooting, poison making, backstabbing, or lockpicking.

I think it used to be that way in Oblivion as well? Can't really remember.

Combat wasn't automated, you chose to attack or not.... which is the problem, as your hit chance was based on stats and a dice roll. As for the main quest, the TES ones are all pretty bad. At the very least, Morrowind was subtle about it. Basically, your examples are the two worst parts of the game.

The reasons why…

Except this isn't the first time? Rebelzize has been doing an on-again, off-again let's play for months.

http://youtu.be/VcUmHkWZNl4?li…

You mean like the ESO trailers? People can say what they want about Bethesda proper, but their trailers are like 98% recreatable ingame.

I'm criticizing the curriculum, not the educators. To this day, I don't think I've ever had a "bad" teacher. A few burned out ones, sure, but almost every complaint I've ever had stems from the curriculum.

I'll give you an example of my highschool social science curriculum - namely, the required courses. Geography (about half of it American and another half of it focusing on miscellaneous geographic terms like exurbs vs suburbs), World History (pre-history through French Revolution), and American history... which I…

True, geography is a misunderstood discipline and it's also quite important as a social science within post-secondary education. The problem is that I don't believe it merits a discrete course in public education. Instead, the concepts of geography (beyond simple topography) can be discussed within any number of…

That's not the kind of perspective I was thinking of. Yes, changes in archaeological evidence have led to historians factoring environmental change as a cause of societal decline and collapse. As a former Classical Studies student, which included a healthy amount of archaeology, I'm certainly aware of that.

So, prepare…

Yes and no. It's true that you need to know what happened before you can delve into the details, but it's the details that make information memorable. So, let's say you're doing session on the Norman kingdom of Sicily. Clearly it would be prudent to give students a general outline. How was it founded? Through the…