I didn't know that. That's one thing I did like about the Halo4 pre-order bonus from... EB Games I think it was, was the armour camo. There was one from Best Buy or Futureshop that looked cool but made you look like a very large target sign, which I thought would be counterproductive for an FPS. ;P I actually had…

There are some socially maladjusted people who, with a little bit of computer knowledge and some kiddiescripts, can easily wreak havoc on the real lives of others without really understanding the consequences of their actions. Just one game of Black Ops 2 on XBL will show how much people will just _rage_ on online…

I'm not sure it necessarily matters. The most proficient hackers would just work out who you and where you live based on things like your IP address, and if you own a domain name, chances are all your info is easily found on a WHOIS. I don't particularly hide my social media presence so a casual Google search would…

Rule 34?

Scary, but sadly not surprising. I mean, these are people who couldn't even make the cut for the most entitled of groups —the PUAs— due to #FAIL. Actually, it's a toss-up between the PUAs and the MRAs, really. What bothers me more is that the average person of all sexes and genders who still don't seem to…

I suspect you just enjoy picking fights with people on the internet. Which is fine, really. But waiting so long between posts is inconsiderate!

My point was that video games as an art form just hasn't been around as long and so it's taken less seriously than film, for example. So the worst kinds of video games tend to have a more negative impact on video gaming as a whole, whereas with film, the impact of the films seen as having artistic merit far outweigh…

I hear you. I died _a lot_ in MW3 after cutting my teeth on Halo 3, Reach and Halo 4. I actually had MW3 for some time, just sitting pretty in its package on my desk after I got it on sale, because I had heard so many bad stories both about the game itself and the people who play them on XBL. And sadly, a lot of it…

I've played around with the 360 quickscope/noscope with XBL friends, but I don't really see the point in doing it in an actual match unless someone is trying to show off (and I've never seen anyone try it on Hardcore TDM in BLOPS2). I actually find noscoping is easier than quickscoping, because I got used to…

I miss the Halo: Reach sniper rifle. :( I never got very good with the one from Halo 4 before I quit to go play CoD. Actually, I miss the original Unreal Tournament sniper rifle, I loved spawn camping with that thing on Facing Worlds CTF. ;P

Hah, I hated being the last one in CS:S - I was guaranteed to choke on the clutch. :( Except possibly by accident, when blindly panic-firing all around me upon encountering an enemy. Ditto for BLOPS2 S&D. ;P

Yep, and Adam Orth learned that lesson the hard way.

I just find that once a couple people start camping, _everyone_ on both sides starts doing it, and the match just drags on and on. Sometimes I'll just deliberately die when people start camping so I can hopefully respawn somewhere behind enemy lines and take them out from behind. :P Lazy campers are hilarious…

I think it's justifiable if your entire team abandons you and no new people join the match. I've won Halo: Reach matches outnumbered 4:1 before, doing that. I'm so glad newer shooters allow people to drop in on a game though, because there were some real rage-quitting jerks on Reach. :P I hate having to play…

Yeah, it might be fun just to play it as a virtual parkour game. At least until DICE finishes Mirror's Edge 2. ;)

Did you just compare human beings to dogs? You do realize that that is false equivalence, right? Dogs don't have mass media, technology, culture, socioeconomic conditions, education, etc., all the things which directly impact how individuals of different groups can develop, and determines whether their human…

Yeah, sadly I've actually had to argue against Asian Americans who apparently believe this pseudoscience, as well as anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Thankfully it's been relatively rare, but still, as a minority I'm well aware of how the vociferousness of even one member of a minority group is often taken as…

Maybe "willfully ignorant" would be a better wording. I definitely would not absolve Ann Coulter of any of the disgusting things she likes to spout, because I _know_ she's not stupid, and I somehow suspect she isn't even as racist as she claims: she's putting on a show, for her own personal aggrandizement and…

I think it depends on what kind of intelligence we're talking about. Certainly some of the people who rated highly in intelligence in some areas, had entire deficits in others (eg. emotional intelligence). In fact, I would argue that in many cases, extreme competence in one area of intelligence may come at the cost…

You ask some important (maybe the most important?) questions surrounding the entire issue.