Sorry, do you want everyone in the world talking about the same thing? Because it sounds to me, from what you're saying, that the ending of Mass Effect 3 is already well-covered.

Again, just because you didn't enjoy it doesn't mean they shouldn't, too. My friends and I have been putting a ton of our free time into XCOM. The game is hella addictive, with Ironman turning it into an emotional and tense rollercoaster.

Could you be any more unnecessarily condescending? You attack her for having a social life, you attack her for playing games differently than you do, and you attack her for being female.

While I've always enjoyed Vanillaware's style, something about this Dragon's Crown trailer finally made me realize what has irked me about them. While the visuals are stunningly beautiful, the combat animations always seem to really lack a sense of impact. It's kind of underwhelming in that regard.

The distinction between Mordin's death and Shepard's death is that you aren't Mordin. You ARE Shepard. Shepard is your avatar throughout the series, the mouthpiece for decisions you make in response to the Mass Effect universe, the vector through which you develop feelings for the crew that surrounds you.

Actually, it's already out. Street date was broken for some reason, and it's been available since Friday.

Have you been having any technical issues? Half the time, it crashes when I try to start it up. It also occasionally hitches for a significant amount of time while whatever audio track had already started continues to play. Often, this follows on reloading following a death or a botched section of gameplay (on which…

I would love to see this somehow expand to fill the structure of City of Heroes, in addition to drawing inspiration from its character creation system. A few years ago, I wouldn't have dared to hope to see this sort of gameplay in a massively online setting, but newer titles like Warframe and even Planetside 2 are…

"Something you couldn't get for yourself" doesn't mean something that they delivered to you, which is how you appear to have interpreted it. It means something that you wouldn't be able to make or purchase freely.

And most people are willing to give gifts because they know they'll be receiving it back in some form or another, even if not a direct financial one. It's still one of the more likable means of advertisement.

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

And if you did it PUBLICLY (which, given you're selling to the highest bidder, that's what it is), it's tacky to do so. Especially if someone is giving you something that you couldn't just get for yourself anyway.

It's tacky because, in many cases, they're gifting you something on which they could easily have turned a profit, or at least recouped costs. Instead, they just GAVE it to you. That you are then turning around and trying to hawk it for money is disrespectful to their generosity. It's not illegal, it's not necessarily…

Just a weird little thing: every time I see someone say they're "glad to be an American" as a preface to a post, I read the rest of said post at a far slower cadence.

I mean, you're not wrong. It's still a deal of sorts, though not as good of one as I'd hoped, and it just irks me how Sony doesn't seem to have processed that these "super slims" were a huge opportunity for them to get PS3s into people's homes at bargain basement prices, rather than dolling them up in bundles the same…

That was my first thought, too.

I mean, in reality, absolutely. Like I said, though, if you wanted to be REALLY cynical.

He sort of has a point if you look at it this way:

For most people, that isn't going to matter. People see a mention of military hardware, they see a mention of videogames, and the rest of the sentence draws a relation between the two. Most then cease to care what that connection is, they just assume it's broad and universal.

So does baseball.