With discovery, I'm grateful any time they air something that could actually qualify as a fact.

A lot of fair points there. In light of them, I'd argue that video games are an experience, and that individual games can be defined as games or toys on a case by case basis. With the rise of sandbox-style video games, the guiding hand you refer to is getting weaker. What are the loss conditions for, say, animal…

Not much right now unless you're on the pre-approved build team. There isn't really any gameplay, and anything you try to build or destroy will just get undone automatically by the server. For right now, it seems like this is a static art project, but I hope when they're done they release the map so that actual gaming…

It has happened. It's already gorgeous. You should do this.

Then maybe we break them down further by category, like we do with TV. If you're being compensated by anyone involved with the game, it's a commercial. God bless, good luck, I hope you all make a ton of money, just make it clear you're being compensated. As far as it being free advertising? Reviews are free…

Well, he's got that whole "hero with a thousand faces" thing going. What I dig about the games is the world-building, which brings with it some gorgeous environments and memorable, if occasionally annoying characters (did you get all of that?). I also think that the zelda games were amongst the earliest hybrid…

are video games not toys?

How is a review different? Is it just that it uses less of the source material, because http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_p…

btw, i'm talking from a legal theory perspective here. Not what the law is, but what we think it should be.

Honestly, I think Let's Plays count as reviews (though very specific and in-depth), and should therefore fall under Fair Use. Journalists get paid to write about copyrighted material all the time, and never have to get articles approved, not to mention actually paying the developer for the privilege. I mean, imagine…

A) His job is football, and showing up to look silently at reporters. The reporters' job is to ask questions, and record what, if any, response they get. This is working out correctly.

B) Yes.

In all honesty, I don't like this idea. I could give a shit about it being women, I don't want to see the same movie again. Even if I loved it the first time. And if the only thing you can tell me about it is "yeah, but now it's got women", that just means you've got a marketing department that isn't completely blind…

since this has become favorite fight thread and I'm an unabashed Pens fans, anyone remember this shit show?

After being given time to 'find' the evidence, the Chargers were cleared.

Goalie fight is best fight. My fav part of this video is watching as the officials, busy breaking up the regular players, realize the Johnson has crossed center ice with murder on his mind. The fight itself? Pretty anticlimactic.

"There goes your tip" is never anything other than a power play by a sadist who is too dumb to come up with an interesting way to humiliate me. Way to go for the low-hanging fruit. Enjoy a lifetime of high fives and pushing nerds into lockers.

Just cuz it was only using system functions doesn't mean it wasn't a hack. He shut down gates and camera feeds in order to smuggle DNA off of the island. That's a pretty realistic hack to me. And it has been immortalized in song via a mashup with Alice DeeJay's "Better Off Alone". The 3D OS that the girl uses to turn…

This is what goes on in my head when i read the words 'PIKACHU used THUNDERSHOCK' and a sprite vibrates back and forth a couple of pixels. It's a fantastic reimagining of the franchise, and I want 2 in case 1 breaks.

I love that luigi picked the person with the giant sword to troll. Behind that moustache, there is nary a fuck to give.

@ 0:25 of the first video