For sure, and I certainly hope so. Escaping from the grasp of the record industry was the best thing that ever happened to music, so hopefully escaping from publishers will do the same for video games.

To me, it's very similar to what happened with indie music. Music production got cheaper, and downloading music from the internet became a thing, so bands that didn't have to rely on record labels started popping up and doing quite well. Eventually indie music became a hip label. By now though, since there are so many…

Funny you should mention that, I've been enjoying AC3 lately and for some reason the day that Black Flag came out, AC3 mysteriously stopped working. I guess it's not designed to last.

One of the most overused gun control jokes is COTD? Low standards man.

FWIW, Voyager's Golden Record is a phonograph record, and it stores a bunch of images, audio, and printed messages.

This isn't possible, but on sites like this, I think a lot of the unproductive conversations could be avoided with an "18+" button. Block out any comments from users who are not adults. This is anecdotal, but based on linguistic cues and cohesiveness, it really seems like a lot of trolling and irrational commenting…

True that, with some of the larger games I'm constantly impressed with how few bugs they let slip past the gates. For a few intermittent ones to slip through is inevitable.

Ok.. but that doesn't change the fact that it's a bug, and bugs are problems by definition.

I'll one up you and say that too many modern games have you playing as a human dealing with anthropocentric issues. With all the possibility of modern game design, you'd think that less developers would be so hung up on that.

Even with natural predators, cats tend to fare pretty well in the wild and reproduce quite a bit to form large clans.

And this is different from nature how?

C++ is certainly the gold standard for games with high performance demands. But if you want to make a 2D platformer, you can go with languages that are much easier to learn and become efficient with, such as JavaScript, C#, Java, or even Python. You could even use an existing engine, like Unity or GameMaker Studio or…

I'm guessing Flash, or some other Adobe product.

This is what's disconcerting about this whole "controversy". People are rushing to judgement without knowing anything about her beyond a few stills and a couple of brief video segments. It's beyond ridiculous - it's just a sad desire to create a controversy over the smallest thing.

Chances are you are a unicorn

Chances are you're judging Reddit based on what people have said here, and you've never actually browsed past the front page.

What kind of actual games do you play?

The concept of procedural rhetoric is entirely new to me and seriously sounds like something I need to check out. Thanks for all the info!

Here here! A commenter on Kotaku recently proposed that they wished more developers made games for experiences as opposed to fun. "Fun" falls under making experiences, but it opens up a much wider domain for artistry. I'm 100% behind this.