I don't remember ever hearing them say that it was "literally impossible" to do offline play with the xbox one; just that they preferred to force you into it so every game would be able to use online features. They did coded it to always check once a day and what-not, but nowhere did I hear that it was impossible to…

My question is: what does Jaguar get out of a terrible Cracked-level article like this?

I am not real wild about disrespectful tone of this article. I understand and support IO9's need to host posts by advertisers, but IO9, as a site devoted to our collective future, has been by and large a sexism free zone, as we hope the world to work toward being. Jaguar, do your homework about who you're writing for.

To the few "men are misrepresented too" posters I've seen, and to those who will no doubt post similar arguments, please listen to the following very carefully:

It does kind of seem like, a lot of the time, rape is used as the female equivalent of the training montage, doesn't it?

As long as I'm getting a proportionate amount of time and enjoyment out of whatever I paid for, it doesn't bother me if I don't finish it or play much more beyond that. If I pick up, say, Tomb Raider or Far Cry or whatever for $5.00 on sale, and I only play around four hours of it before getting bored... who cares?…

This GIF pairs well with Superstition by Stevie Wonder.

The benefit here is that unlike physical hoarding, even when you're accumulating stuff you'll never use, it's still not taking up physical space.

There are so many things wrong with this post, but you at least got one thing right: Most of the world defines gender by genitalia. Most of the world decides your gender by what's between your legs or what your chromosomes, and not by who you are in the deepest, most basic core of your mind. What you're missing here,…

Agreed. That quote is getting close to becoming overused as a shield to deflect responsibility and bigotry. The problem is that people who tell others that they should not get offended don't realize that it is an arrogant statement because they are basically anointing themselves as the universe's moral center and no…

Hi, person on the internet. You seem to think that I have walked into this conversation with no previous experience, education, or reading on the subject. You are incorrect. There is some limited research that shows that children who watch a large amount of sexually explicit media engage more often and earlier in…

Not really, no. It's no more a visual novel (lacking pretty much all of the standard mechanical elements) than it is a first-person shooter (lacking only shooting).

(Besides which, I think the distinction between "visual novel" and "game" is pretty blurry at best, and it's usually used as a bludgeon to separate things…

I agree. I'm all for moments of silence, or prayers/good wishes, or donations to charities, etc. But pushing for a cease-fire in games is a little silly because, as you said, it kinda pushes the whole, "video games caused this," rationality, even if it's not intended.

I understand the idea behind this but I can't help but feel that it doesn't do anything but further propagate the idea that violent Video Games are responsible for real world violence.

I guess that's the crux of the disagreement about interface: browsing. For me the need to browse through nested directories in the old menu is antiquated. I would just pin what I needed most to the task bar or navigation bar. But except for the document jump lists I like the functionality and look of the start…

Things any computer savvy person has open at all times: A browser, a chat program, possibly a streaming or local video. That's not a "rare exception" as you said, and I'm saying "not many people watch videos outside of full screen anyway" is dismissive and presumptuous. But instead of getting mad about hyperbolic…

yeah, i was watching a movie. but thats a rare exception. same with reading something. not many people watch videos outside of full screen anyway.