Well, it does still reward the player for killing them, because they have money. Not because they are strippers: I could be wrong but you get pretty much the same amount for killing anyone in the game regardless of sex, gender or profession... but it's still incentivizing murder. It may not be rewarding gendered…

Well, that's an interesting question as well, because there are some arguments to be made that, for example, countries where pornography, even violent pornography, is easily obtained also have a correlation of lower violent sex crime rates:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/…

With the thinking being that they…

The difference is that video games (depending on the game) are meant to be not only immersive experiences, but ones that require active participation on the part of the consumer of that medium. I think there are both positives and negatives to that aspect of video games that differentiates it from the consumption of…

Except that's a false comparison: cartoon violence is clearly... well, cartoon violence. Whereas today's triple-A titles in the HD graphics generation are _very_ realistic, and while perhaps we've yet to quite cross that uncanny valley, to pretend that the video games of today are the same as they were even ten, or…

Ironically, I've found it's generally easier to get people checked into a psych ward when someone is suicidal (i.e. only likely to harm themselves), provided there is room on the psych ward, at least in Toronto and Ottawa (Canada). Whereas I see a lot of people wandering around near Moss Park or Carlton and…

GamerGaters can call out those amongst their own, or those who self-identify as one of their own, for bad behaviour, though. Most of them just flat-out refuse to do so, because they're more interested in trying to silence and denigrate feminists (or more specifically, feminist women), and so-called "SJW"s than they…

There is some precedent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulugeta_…

"At the trial, WAR national vice president Dave Mazzella testified how the Metzgers instructed WAR members to commit violence against minorities. Tom and John Metzger were found civilly liable under the doctrine of vicarious liability, in which one can be…

And for profit. Or something. Or that she faked her own death to boost sales of her game.

See, at least people who have had a psychotic break from reality have a verifiable medical condition that precludes them from being cognizant of reality: GGers have no such explanation for their antisocial behaviour. The scary…

All I'd like to know is... when do I get my Hattori Hanzo?

I believe I have been short-changed by my country of origin. :(

I am jelly of anyone who can paint with absolute realism. As a (former) artist, I find her technical skill to be absolutely astonishing.

People are dismissive of artists who copy photos exactly, but they forget that it's actually pretty novel to be able to reproduce reality so accurately and it took humanity a very…

Now if they'd just release a wireless receiver for the Xbox One controller for PC (and not that cheap, crappy one they put out for the 360 controller that would easily blow a fuse and stop working). :P

Yeah, SC should technically end as soon as all opposing players have zero ability to rebuild and no combat forces left.

I think I could be stuck to one game for a long time (and I was: MUDs) but I couldn't get into WoW because I'm not fond of their character models or their lore. Didn't care too much for their PvP either, although I didn't play on a full PvP server. I'm sure if the right MMO came along I'd be hooked. In many ways I…

Yeah, if they are updating as it happens, and they seem so concerned about the possibility of their respective spouses finding out that they know, wouldn't they be more concerned that their respective spouses would accidentally find all this out not because they gave the game away, but because it's _all over the…

Depends on the game: in chess, people will resign if they can foresee an all-but-inevitable loss, so as to avoid wasting their own time, and their opponent's. Similarly in StarCraft, it's frowned upon to drag out a game when it's clear you've lost. I don't mind resigning games like that, unless my opponent in…

Neither are some of the commenters here. ;P

/just sayin'

4 corner simultaneous 4-day world...?

I'd definitely see Nintendo's point more if this was not a proprietary AC adapter. If it was just a microUSB cable, I could imagine most anyone these days would have one lying around (although having more never hurts, as I always seem to be short one)... but a _proprietary_ cable?! And an AC adapter no less? People…

I'm just glad those people on Twitter were joking about Kanye West 'discovering' Paul McCartney. ;)

http://gawker.com/good-morning-a…