What I don't get is that the people who are making these decisions apparently went to business school, and yet don't realize that the way you beat pirates is by giving consumers a better alternative for a price they are willing to pay. Which yeah will mean in this digital age that you are not going to make as much…

Do you have any idea what kind of legislative body you would create if we embraced your plan. While I'm in favor of term limits, two year term limits, or even two current term limits (twelve years in the Senate or four years in the House) , would destroy the ability of the legislative body to draft bills, since you…

I don't think I will ever understand why they decided to make this. I know fans have often expressed a desire for a darker more serious entry in the franchise, but I can't imagine that this is what they had in mind, at least I know it wasn't for me.

You can write a game that gives you the morality angle. That is just a problem of finding the right creative bunch of people. The biggest hurdle for me would be the from a technical gameplay side. Superman comes with all of his powers and awesomeness from the minute you click "New Game". Unlike Batman there are no…

In terms of how this will affect students, beyond just making it more obvious who comes from families with disposable cash and those that do not, I'm not really seeing how this will help them financially. Right now the system is stacked against students, like so many things in higher education, however, this does have…

Why? .hack doesn't have nearly the sort of fan base of Naruto, it's sales also haven't been that stellar in comparison, and unless they are planning something big it probably doesn't warrant wasting the time on multiplatform development.

Really? While it doesn't compare to the classics and well develop anime, it very much out performs a lot of the over-saturated anime out there, in terms of character development, captivating story, and general direction.

It's very likely to be a PS3 game. The .hack series has never been on a Nintendo device, and I can't see any reason why they would start now. So hopefully it is for the PS3.

So this is actually really scary: our natural tendency to create a more hygienic place is actually making us less healthy, in terms of the ability to combat things, than the other way around. Extrapolating that further, I wonder if this path continues if we could end up with a reverse cultural pathogen contact, like…

The answer is fairly simple: fans like to bitch and complain, and a foreign import is so much easier to bitch at than the cookie cutter copies that sell like crack from Western developers.

Well lets keep things in perspective here, XIII-2 is the first game on a console where a viable demo option was available, second they release demos for a bunch of game franchises that are still for most of their fans "sight-unseen one purchase".

Well, Obama started the tradition of reading ten letters everyday from the thousands that are sent to the office, so it very possible that whoever sorts the letters thought it was cute and picked it as one of the special ten. Obama has been known to respond to the letters personally, he sent one to a lesbian soldier…

Yes, you're right, however, for the sake of the larger distinction between science and creationism and other dogmatic beliefs the difference between accepting the agreed-upon, scientific method approved, observations, that have been tested, peer-reviewed, and evaluated (with the findings constantly being tested and…

Yeah, I'm not sure if Smith has Jungle...er...Maze Fever, and since we don't know his past dating history, we can't say for sure he has a thing only for non-Caucasian women. Still I wouldn't call dating someone from a different ethnic group is a fetish.

I agree that a symbol would reinforce the criticism. Hunting for a symbol to represent it all would just be falling into the creationists' trap, by re-affirming the accusation that this isn't merely a situation of evidence versus beliefs, which it is, but rather of two competing belief systems, humanism versus…

I disagree with point 1, I'm with you on point 2, on point 1 I don't think the premise is that Zombies will win the war, the premise is that you, specifically the individual, will die. Zombie apocalypse movies tap into a fear I think some people have that society is inherently fragile and that significant pressure…

Oh come on, really!? District 9! That's the success story you want to go for. All of Africa isn't in the shit you know.

Yea...I understand how you feel. However, it doesn't amuse me so much as it makes me sad, especially when on top of that I've found myself having to explain to people that Africa isn't one single country but rather a continent, on which there are dozens upon dozens of individual nations: some thriving, while others…

The absence of material want seems to exist only because they were so worried about securing food that they didn't have time to worry about possessions; however, we can trace back our desire to have things to some of our most early days, so what makes you so sure that after the Inca noble discovered all of the…

I don't know if their way would last very long. Eurasia exploded technologically, economically, and socially because of trade and individual risk taking, not heavy-handed centralized government autocracy. I'm no libertarian, but I do think there is something to be said for the power of capitalism and free markets.…