It's low hype because it's still in closed beta.

He's not comparing the two, but given the tendency in America to censor art as well, it's the inconsistency he's pointing out.

Violence can be a compelling story telling element. It can be entertaining.

Hot? Really? Jesus, with the standards you have, you must be uglier than Quasimoto.

Well and the fact that most of the generation that talks about these things don't understand the medium. In 50 years, when everyone in power had regular contact with video games, the conversation will likely be more rational.

Right. A lot of people don't realize that the people who do these kinds of things have mental issues that go way beyond the immediate cause—he had Halo 3 taken—and effect—he took revenge.

Or the music for Nyan Cat, which was certainly not created by Nyan Cat's creator.

No, not exactly, you missed my point. It's easier to be reminded of negative stigma with words that have that connotation than from generic animal imagery that's been applied in a million ways.

Which Nintendo really has not helped. They call the Mario powerups "tanuki suit" and "tanuki tail", except tanuki don't have striped bands that wrap around the tail like that—raccoons do. Tanuki tail stripes are more chaotic and tend to run up and down the tail more than anything, not across (let alone in perfect…

No because the lingo isn't there. Raccoons steal. They're foragers and are notorious in urban environments for stealing. They're nocturnal, have opposable thumbs and have bands on their faces like a cartoonish bandit mask.

They're losing an entire month of subscription revenue for god knows how many users. What will they do, split $3600 between hundreds of people?

There's a difference between showing something that isn't in the game and a game simply being disappointing.

"Since then Galactus has been cheapened by multiple appearances in comics, cartoons and of course, video games, so when I see his pronged helmet popping up my only thought is 'I wonder if their going to manage to fit all of him on the screen this time.'"

He didn't say it was bad, he said it was disappointing. Which, for most people , it was.

Before the second trailer, literally every io9 article about Man of Steel was bashing the movie before we even knew much about it.

Noob is the original Sub-Zero. The current Sub-Zero is Noob's brother.

Well to be fair, it was the dev's first attempt at a PC game and Japanese devs in general aren't good with PC architecture or western game engines. They've apologized and they've tried to fix what they could with patches, but mods make the game run at least just as good as the console versions.

Error! Scorpion isn't a villain! In fact, he's one of the main protagonists of Mortal Kombat.

The noses are changes in the photoshopped image. If you look at their unprocessed, no makeup photos, only some of them look like they have their nose done, many of them look like good old Korean noses.

It's not about accepting it, but pointing fingers and yelling "this is what's wrong with gaming!" doesn't solve anything either and is a sadly two-dimensional statement. The world is a complex place and that permeates into almost every aspect of life. Sexualized characters in gaming don't have a simple singular cause…