I feel like we're approaching some kind of suck-fulcrum point. Is it now hip to hate the prequels? Or is it hip to love them? Hating them was "cool" because everyone loved them, and it's cool to do the opposite of popular opinion. But now, popular opinion is that they were terrible—is it "cool" to love them? Which is…

The Lancashire Telegraph reported that the boy admitted the assault and specifically named the console as the device where he had been watching the porn, and that it inspired him to "try it out." The boy said he chose his sister because she was small and "couldn't remember stuff."

But we DO know the torments they put others through. There are ways to deal with pain and suffering that help you find a path to healing, and there are ways that only serve to further damage you and everyone around you. You have to weigh both the intention of a person's actions and the impact. It's important to have…

It is hubris to think you can care for your family, maintain a successful career, and have a full, happy life while doing heroin. If he thought he could do heroin and not die, that's hubris. The only way it isn't is if he intended to die, in which case it's selfishness and cruelty, to abandon your children because of…

I've been struck by how many colleagues have reacted to his passing with anger—almost as if they're upset that he somehow betrayed us by dying.

Killed all my interest, too. It looked gorgeous and fun, but a game that's only multiplayer is a game I won't be playing.

I'm glad somebody else is saying this. I find the over-smoothing of high frame rates and HDTVs makes everything I watch look like it was shot on home video, or like a '90s soap opera. It ruins the cinematic quality of film and makes everything look fakey and bizarre. Digital effects become more obvious and fake,…

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Terrible example. Airplane is a farce - a specific type of comedy so removed from reality as to be ridiculous and bizarre. Nobody would look at Airplane and think that's how air travel works. HOWEVER, Prison Architect isn't a comedy, and certainly isn't a farce. The game plays its subject matter so straight and uses…

But when you choose to make a game simulating what is a very serious, controversial topic, you have a responsibility to handle it carefully, whether you asked for that responsibility or not. It'd be like making a sim game about running a 19th century southern plantation and balking at the idea that it should handle…

Might be the case, except Anti-Trust laws in America have been so defanged as to be nearly toothless. What few teeth are left can't bite because the government refuses to prosecute. In our modern corporatocracy, all that matters is who has the most money. Might makes right.

You forget how many areas in the country live under an ISP monopoly. These telecoms could choose to instate harsh restrictions and fees in one area where there is no competitor to worry about, and then offer nicer deals where they have to face off with other ISPs. Or they make deals with major content providers (HBO,…

You're the commentator Kotaku deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt you. Because you're not our commentator, you're our verbal guardian. A watchful correspondent. A dork knight.

The other problem I have with the "Most people live in a metropolitan area" argument is that it's self-centered and snide. It's another example of "If it isn't a problem FOR ME, then it isn't a problem."

The Star Wars manga remain some of my favorite comic works ever. I taught classes on creating comics for a long time, and I always used the "Luke, I'm your Father" scene from the Empire manga as an example of the beauty and pacing Japanese comics can evoke that American comics tend to miss. There's just something so…

One of the greatest superhero stories ever. It's highly underrated because of the bondage-heavy silliness of the early volumes, but those who overlook it miss one of the most well-rounded female characters in comics, one of the most well-written relationships in comics, and one of the most interesting original…

Hmm. Seems like this list is almost exclusively for people looking for Photoshop alternatives to alter/adjust photographs. I'm a comic creator who uses PS for digital coloring, and the list of programs I'd consider decent replacements is radically different from these. The majority of the listed programs here are…

I agree with you on both points. I think that gamers need to take more responsibility to support (with money, not just clicks) the projects they care about. The only thing big companies listen to is money, so until they see that money going to somebody else for doing the stuff they're too cowardly to attempt, they…

I'm in a similar boat with you, friend. If this pill works, I'd be on it in a heartbeat. My wife has adverse reactions to birth control so we don't want her to take it, and I've had adverse reactions to condoms (though I'd rather put up with my discomfort and lack of sensation than put her through the pains she gets…

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