The reaction to the visual style of Wind Waker was disheartening. That game's cell shading was great, and so was the vast majority of the game itself! The only thing that consistently bugs me to this day is the sailing mechanic. Some people like it, but it is unruly, especially early on, having to play a song just to…

Think I know someone who approves of this picture...

Suppose as an example. Or maybe because of the damage he did, not just to Valve. And yet, example-setting penalties are what I'm against, so... I see your point, based on how he turned out, perhaps the right decisions were made in terms of penalty.

I research on my shopping decisions, to a degree. I make conscious decisions often of what to buy and what not to, don't shop at big box retailers, try to stretch the use of what I purchase instead of throwing out something in the rush to get something new and more feature-laden.

I think that punishment has its place, but not for every type of offense. There are people who commit petty crimes for basic survival, or first offenses of a non-violent nature, who are given far stronger penalties than they deserve. There are people committed to long prison sentences for minor drug violations so that…

Not shocked, but saddened. It's hard (maybe not impossible) to find consumer goods that aren't created through awful labor practices through outsourced manufacturing. When manufacturing of goods became less of an "under the hood" part of a company's structure and something to be done by outside organizations in other…

@erischilde: Why not? It was Apple's choice to use subcontractors for the labor to produce their own products. Shouldn't companies that outsource manufacturing of goods bear some responsibility for making sure that the contracted labor is not being done in terrible ways?

I don't want to punish him further. I think, though, he should have been reprimanded differently in the first place. Then again, judging by how he seems much more stable in judgment at this point, maybe then the right action was taken. Several years probation isn't really a light term. Suppose I have no strict…

@psychobaka: Huh? What was that? Think you said something...

@Chanaluss: Oh yes! Link's Awakening forever! Favorite story of all the Zelda games.

Baaaad memories of that. Got 20 seconds into the first video and felt like stabbing myself in the brain with the Master Sword. :o

It wasn't necessarily direct censorship, ,except in the case of some small in-house productions. Rather it was indirect manipulation of markets. Blockbuster, being the biggest video store in the land, chose what it would stock and what it wouldn't. It refused to stock anything over an R rating and even rejected some…

Sad because a lot of people will lose their jobs in an already craptacular jobless time if Blockbuster shutters its doors. But they got too big, tried to be ubiquitous, crushed the competition, got greedy with their pricing, and tried to leverage their power to censor cinema. In the end, it is their very size that…

@Phaz: Wouldn't touch this doomed company with a ten-foot poll. It's sad, a lot of people will lose their jobs if it finally does go under, but I can't see store-based movie rentals doing large scale business again. So, if someone were to buy the company, they would have to slash it up big time to maybe make money.

I agree on both of these perspectives: the "we all make mistakes" but also that he deserve a bit more punishment for what he did. Dangerous actions indeed, and damaging to many parties. He may have learned his lesson, and some will appreciate that and be forgiving, but it's likely many won't.

Always dug the intoxicated experiences in games. The GTA4 bar date was always fun, especially the highly-frowned-upon drunk driving possibility, or the stand-up classy hail a cab and get home safe option. It's a nice chance for good 'ol game escapism, where you can do the things that you would (hopefully) never, ever…

@Sir Beefychu: Okay, that is going into my memory banks as "Quite An Excellent Picture."

@pandafresh: :looks at your avatar icon:

Could have been cool, but I think Bryan knew what was a good fit for the story. The brawler game is excellent, and what I've gotten to play of it was very fun. Yeah, it could have been done in either action or adventure direction, but methinks the right choice was made. Besides, Telltale has plenty of good franchises…

Sweeeet. There have already been Minecraft world explorers on iOS, so I don't see this as an impossibility, though I never tried those products. Minecraft runs slow on my laptop with its piddly dedicated graphics, so wouldn't mind an alternative such as this. It would be nice to see some cross-platform world transfer…