@Resuriko: No kidding. Body piercing is one of the oldest forms of body modification, predating almost every form of human society. You'd think, by now, people would have gotten over being offended by it. Nose piercings date back to 1500 BC. That's right, nose piercings are 1500 years older than Christ.

@RsK: Bummer. Like most Bethesda games, the PC version has hundreds, maybe thousands of mods that vastly increase what you can do. The console version is still awesome, but it just doesn't compare.

@ILaen'Cythe: Sorry, Kotaku is an American based site. Football is only the American kind, and your silly sport is soccer. That's how it is, here.

@Emperor_Kestrel: Those kinds of flamethrowers are the actual military kind which are incredibly difficult to carry, maintain, and keep fueled.

@CharmeleonWithAttitude: There actually are studies about what it's doing to our brain, and the fact is, we are changing. Significantly. People who constantly stay connected, follow Facebook and Twitter and are online all the time and everything else have brains with vastly different shapes than people who avoid any…

@Raso719: This is a soccer game, not an (American) football game.

@Corgyll: Damn! Beat me to it. :)

@shkm: True, he might not be totally stupid, but I still think it's dumb to just assume you won't be caught, especially since most hackers usually are.

I'm disappointed they didn't mention the problems with correlation and causation. Maybe depressed kids with bad grades play more games, instead of games causing depression and bad grades.

@Emperor_Kestrel: Like I said, "It takes a long time to completely destroy a human body with fire". The outer skin will burn away fairly rapidly, but muscles take a lot longer to burn. That's why you can cook a steak over open flame without it instantly burning away into nothing. As long as the zombie still has…

@Chrysolite: Yeah, I was thinking about those games when I said it. This is the next level, though. Not just dialogue choices and stats, but real, active dialogue with a character.

@HowIsYourFlat: My brother is a professional body piercer, and as such, has a large number of body piercings. His reasoning for getting a new one is usually one of two things: "Because I can" or "Because I wanted to see if I could." Some times he doesn't like it, takes it out, and the hole heals over. Other times, he…

Maybe they are just all using protection, because none of them want to deal with raising kids.

@shkm: You mean the guy who hacked the system should be intelligent? If he was, he wouldn't have done whatever he did to piss off moderators and get in trouble. He also wouldn't be breaking the law over a game.

@TheTonyShow: It's not that games can't be addictive, it's that it's not nearly as addictive as the study is implying. For one thing, there is no chemical dependency being formed in your brain like there is with drugs or alcohol; it's a psychological dependency. For another thing, games are not any more addicting…

@CharmeleonWithAttitude: Who needs social interaction if you can just play a video game instead? :D

@RsK: Fallout 3 is definitely an awesome game that can easily hook you. Are you playing it on the PC or console?

@NaraVara: That's less than three hours a day. Most people I know if they don't play video games will spend more than that sitting on their butts in front of the television. I figure that gaming isn't the healthiest past time, but I'd rather see a kid playing a video game interactively than watching TV passively. At…

That looks incredible. There are some crazy dedicated fans out there, producing amazing stuff. Hell, I'm beta testing for a fan mod right now, and it blows me away what people are capable of just in their free time. I wish I was half as talented as these people.

I very much support this. It's astounding how many parents are completely ignorant of the ratings system, despite every GameStop or Wal-Mart plastering signs all over their games section advertising it, and warning parents about it when they go to buy the game anyway. Maybe the actual box looking different will be…