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Psst, this month is September.

Why People Pirate Video Games

For such an important topic, it’s a shame that we can’t ever seem to have a real discussion about video game piracy.

If GamerGate were actually about ethics in journalism, they would not be actively trying to destroy Kotaku — a site that refuses press junkets, regularly pisses off game publishers through aggressive journalism, and is just about as transparent as any gaming site can be — they’d be going after Metacritic and exclusive

Dude, “Don’t push feminism” basically means “Don’t talk about anything that says that women have a bum rap.” Back in the 50s, lots of people down south didn’t have a problem with black folk.....so long as they ate at their own lunch counters. Saying “hey, maybe we deserve to eat with y’all” was “pushing an agenda.”

Today I learned that being a feminist was unethical...

We used to speculate, maybe because of something non-canon from Splinter of the Mind's Eye, that the scene meant Han Solo had Jedi potential. Yes, I'm old and have been a geek a long time.

I'm playing using one and it's absolutely fine.

I think that's the reason, above all others (even the decline of the joystick), that the space combat genre went away. Why Wing Commander focused on presentation, not gameplay. Why Tie Fighter's sequel, X-Wing Alliance, is never mentioned in the same breath. Why we haven't seen any major space shooters in over a

Wait wait wait wait wait... when I play a FPS, the bullets don't go where I point?

Exactly. I'd wager the vast, VAST majority of people who do play video games have zero clue that any of this is going on. If they read anything video game related, it's probably in an issue of Game Informer if that. They don't endlessly go to Kotaku or Polygon or NeoGAF or Destructoid or Joystiq or Gamasutra or any

You aren't missing anything. I keep getting the feeling that the people involved on either side of whatever this argument is think that this is some grand debate they're having, when it's really just a giant shouting match where no one is really listening to each other, taking place in a bubble - a tiny,

That is really amazing. I applaud the work they put into it to get things done.

Noses are overrated.

Someone should definitely do this. Even if it means resorting to wiping the dust off Warcraft 3 and modding the original DOTA, replacing character models with DC/Marvel heroes/villains and giving them the appropriate skills.

For reals I would pay for that AND DLC, hell even horse armor.

WB and Disney get together and make this a DC vs Marvel MOBA (with maybe some unlockable Disney and Star Wars characters), fine tune the hell out of it and you'll have a serious contender with a good number of players. I'm new to the MOBA scene after avoiding it the last 2 years so I'm still open before I get set in

Some literary types try to refrain from only reading the first sentence of a given piece of writing (and then bragging about doing so). They also tend to distinguish between an opinion made by the author of a piece of writing and an opinion simply acknowledged by one. They also tend to refrain from virtual eye-rolls,

The author wasn't advocating that viewpoint, just acknowledging that "Literary types often regard Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita as the greatest love story of the 20th century," which is true.