This is the correct answer. Any journalist needs to assume that whoever is doing this is an incredibly unreliable source with an agenda and that any information released is done in accordance with said agenda. Therefore, it fundamentally cannot be trusted. Reporting on it is one thing, but that reporting needs to be…

After that, turn off Film Grain. It’s another nice cinematic flourish, one that mimics the semi-grainy look of a film recorded on, well, actual film. It also creates more visual noise—an unnecessary aesthetic distraction. Finally, consider switching off the Motion Blur, a visual effect that muddles the background to…

So dude was using the door of the PT Cruiser for cover? That’s unwise.

Well Bob, I can tell you that the judges up here in the booth are stunned by this development! Apple has pulled a surprise move and surged past both Adobe and The Microsoft That Old Tech People Remember Microsoft Being And Think Microsoft Still Is, and is now running neck and neck with Oracle!

Solid review, but I disagree with the idea that a work not dealing with a set of issues presents a clear negative. It’s like you’re grasping at straws to find the game’s flaws.

Can’t we even consider games a first-class medium on a gaming site? Why do we have to use traditional media categorization as the basis for how we classify games?

For the times when a Miata is both too much and not enough.

Drunk purchased a fancy lightsaber. Do I use it every day? No. Do I use it most days? No. Does it ever really do anything except sit there until my nieces or nephews come over? No. Was it worth it? Absolutely.

Drunk purchased a fancy lightsaber. Do I use it every day? No. Do I use it most days? No. Does it ever really do…

Here’s the particular exchange that worries me:

38, I cart surf and make engine noises when I’m pushing the cart.

I really appreciate this sentiment. If we understand gameplay elements as expression, then it only makes sense that they’re commented on by other gameplay elements. So level design can, in isolation, be both satirical commentary on other level design and mean-spirited in and of itself. It’s a smart way to approach…

Breaking news! The most common names chosen in a game are... common names!

I suppose that I don't know what I expect anymore, but "officers ... were present as employees arrived," "officers entered with cardboard boxes, which they loaded with documents," and "Funcom is fully cooperating" does not equate to "Investigators Raid Norwegian Game Studio" or "developer ... under siege."

I'm not trying to be a dick, but you're exemplifying exactly what the problem is.

The thing is that people clearly don't understand. Sure, the practice may be flawed, but no one's discussing that. People are just going after an easy target that is working within the system because they don't know and, it would seem, don't care to know.

This.

Bingo. Why is it that not only does no one commenting understand this, but the article's author also doesn't get it?

The myopia and complete lack of self awareness here is truly, truly epic.

Men certainly do have body issues, and I would never suggest otherwise. However, there is no comparison in the available representations of the two. Certainly it has been represented as "unmanly" to have a thin frame, but there are also innumerable circumstances where the heroic male figure is a thin, lithe badass…

By equating the physical misrepresentation of men with the sexualisation of women and suggesting that concern for one rather than the other invalidates the other you are justifying that continued exploitation. The male physical representation is not the "problem stereotype" that men deal with. You can, and do, have…