It's not because it's any gorier than any other GoW death, but I think you're reacting to this one particularly much because it's so much STUPIDER than any other GoW death. It's one thing to have amusing ultra-violence, but you have to toe the line between the visceral amusement of a sort-of-straightforward…

Yeah I have zero desire to play that game. Every trailer looks beyond belief. It's like a Where's Waldo game, but everything Waldo's hiding behind is dumb and angry, and Waldo is dumb and angry.

Thanks for the tedious whining. You want to know what's funny? I have an opinion, and you have an opinion. Isn't that great. You'd think we would be brothers, but I'm smart and realize that for me to have an opinion on something, I have to allow you to have your opinion. But apparently that sort of smarts is where we…

Yeah that's perfect. The quicktime event is just choosing condiments.

You know, they actually SHOULD give him a band. Maybe that's how they should humanize Kratos. Give him a backing band, have him fight with two electric guitars on amp cords, and then link it into a Rock Band crossover.

So, an expanded set of sub-weapons, AND punch and kick, AND a set of four elemental attacks? It kind of sounds like a huge glut. I understand the desire for variety to avoid button mashing, but it sounds like maybe an annoying amount of combination possibilities?

a sound effect which is the voice of a Runic developer

He's probably going to start a ruiner's club.

I also see that Kinja algorithms any comment that's remotely anti-Kinja, even humorous ones, to the very back of the pile with all the no-reply rejects.

ready to scroll down to Kinja and type something nasty

Moriarty's article might mean something if it weren't a totally self-serving and hypocritical mess.

Kate Beaton's stuff starts being copyright 2006. And her 2006 stuff looks exactly the same, so it's not like she ever changed her style.

There's probably 75% too much Kate Beaton-ism happening in this comic. You really can't look that much like one of the web's most popular strips. Someone's bound to comment. Like me.

Oh, the RIGHT kind of accounts. That's what I've been doing wrong.

Brian I wasn't arguing that people CAN'T come up with alternate readings, only that those readings must be supported by evidence drawn from within the text itself, or only in very compelling cases outside the text. Either way they must be supported. Which I think I've said a couple of times now.

I'm not objecting to art being given to an audience, I'm objecting to "reader response" theory of art, where the reader dictates the meaning of a work of art. If the reader dictates meaning then art has no purpose or structure, and you could read as much meaning into a grocery flyer as into Finnegan's wake. But you…

Ugh. Well, I can see we're going in circles here, and I get the distinct impression that you aren't really reading the things I'm posting so I'm going to bow out gracefully.

Thankfully, each Towelmate has a helpful, huge, embroidered "TOWELMATE" on it, thus telling potential thieves to just up and take the whole thing.

Not true. Not true at all. Most bosses kill you in 1-2 hits unless you spend the time grinding to a reasonable level. You simply can't beat Ornstein and Smough without severe luck if your character isn't strong enough to survive a hit from the powered-up version, for example. I have an archer character who spent…

I found Ornstein and Smough really tough, but I think I was underpowered when I faced them, because one hit from powered up Smogh killed me. Tough game.