Throwback Mountain Dew is good, but I like all the Throwbacks and I specifically buy my Coca Cola from CostCo so I can get cases of the Mexican bottled stuff that uses real sugar. I just prefer the sodas that do not have HFCS. For some reason the HFCS sodas taste 'sharper' while the real sugar ones like Mt. Dew…

I wish they would bring back...

The "problem" (as I see it) is that there is a yawning gap between the so-called "gaming journalist" and their audience.

I'm supplying actual arguments. You're tossing ad hominems and no arguments. Your behavior marks you as the troll. Physician, heal thyself.

Ah - the ad hominems a person that lacks a cohesive argument. How rare and special it is... Since you appear unaware of writing conventions, I'll deign to educate...

There is just something viscerally appealing when you watch a person who truly is enjoying what they're doing. It doesn't matter what they're even doing. It just matters that they love it. This guy is a good example of that. He's just a guy sitting in a chair watching a 'partly' interactive movie, but he's just so…

Yeah the people making threats are pinheads. Stooping to that kind of garbage means they're either troglodytes, or they're too stupid to make an intellectual argument. There is plenty of ways to dismember Sarkeesian's arguments without that sort of drivel.

I read it - and accurately analyzed it. You just don't like what I had to say. :) For example...

"I'm not sure how the hell you got the idea that I was saying we should do things just because they're hard."

Maybe it was the part where you said...

"So since it isn't easy we shouldn't do it? Ridiculous."

That's a more fair argument than what Sarkeesian presents. Her video is not making those kinds of suggestions. She's saying, "This is bad and needs to stop" while not supplying a realistic alternative, and also while ignoring or minimizing other information that contradicts her posit.

For example, she talks about…

So since it isn't easy, we shouldn't do it? Ridiculous.

You make a better argument here than the one made by Sarkeesian. Let's examine it more closely. You have a video game where you are going to motivate the protagonist (the player) so that they start going out and doing stuff like fighting and traveling from place to place. What is their motivation?

In "Last of Us"…

Pht - so all the faceless hordes of male minions that get mowed down by the thousands in EVERY video game have "autonomy and depth"? And no male in a video game ever dies to elicit an emotional response? What a load of bullcrap.

There is no resistance to thinking about it. People think about it and then realize that it is a ridiculous, myopic and inherently selfish argument that is attempting to take basic writing convention and falsely attempt to say it is a "womyn's problem". It's a stupid argument, and so it is rejected on that basis -…

I'd never threaten anyone.

But I am dismissing her argument as navel-gazing clickbait. Every argument she makes in the video pretends that the common writing convention of having an antagonist actually doing things that MAKE them an antagonist is somehow 'abusive' to women. Balderdash.

But when you examine reality (I.E. stuff that happens in the real world every day) it is not a skewed portrayal. In fact, in places where real evil exists such abuse of women is common. Take ISIS, for example. Such abuse of the innocent is commonplace among extreme ideologies.

So it's simply not true that the…

"Aside from invoking terrible attitudes about women, it's also a cheap writing trick. "A lazy shorthand for evil."

As long as the game soundtrack includes, "One Night In Bangkok", I'm in.

Changing the color on a grasshopper doesn't make it cute. :P Grasshoppers are the ugliest, creepiest, weirdest alien tank-gluttons in nature. Can't stand those grotesque little monsters. No color swap makes them any less abhorrent. And don't even get me started on the female ones when they're unfolding their own…

Aw - well I have to agree to disagree on Octopussy. It's well paced, has a reasonable plot, and manages to avoid most (though certainly not all) of the goofiness in Moore's later Bonds. There are a few silly things, but the main plot is fine.

It sounds to me like you are saying, "borne of a movie that was not Bond's finest outing" and then saying "If Goldeneye was based on Octopussy then I'd agree". Isn't that saying that you think Octopussy is NOT one of Bond's finest outings?