When working in a creative industry, one will always have to balance creative and business concerns.

Okay, the timer thing is their error, no argument. But Im still at my start point - never gotten in there, don't see staying out as being that tough.

Says the guy who can't figure out why his behavior keeps landing him in time-out, to those who don't get kicked.... Look to thyself, dude.

I guess I spend a lot less time blowing up other people's cars. Like, I haven't done so in months. Maybe stop playing like a bad sport, and you won't get labeled as one.

Yeah, and that has what to do with anything? Do you routinely go around spamming year old threads with cut'n'paste bullshit, rather than a thought of your own?

Saying a business might want to listen to their customers.... is me claiming to ab an "authority?"

Wow, resurrecting an old thread with a nonsensical comment. You must be really bored.

Ive been playing since October, and never gotten a bad sport punishment.

You realize they're robots, right? Installing a file and instantly knowing the langue is plausible. Adopting intensely specific colloquialisms, and sticking with them to create an ethnic theme - a fuckload less so.

Just because they came up with a reason for the stupidity doesn't mean its less stupid.

I get the feeling he's offended when the 'splosions stop and he has to put up with anything character-based.

Moving on from bad stereotypes to "cool" stereotypes is growth? Would the twins have been less racist if they had been really good at basketball to boot?

Its that you compared them favorably.

"The movie can't make pointed statements quite as clearly"

It never occurred to me that the character was a surrogate for Lohan while playing - she just came of as a satirical take on ANY bimbo starlet, sleeping her way to the top.

You're technically correct - but technicality doesn't always mean a lot. As long as the majority has systems from the prior generation, they're going to think of the one they haven't gotten yet as "next."

Im betting that won't really happen until they become the predominant consoles.

By objective and economical, you mean, ignore the points against it, and pretend thats the only way it could be? You, like the OP, are relying on a false premise, that because 80% of players are male, that they would ONLY want to see male characters in the game - which is a bit inane.

Conveniently ignoring the notion that more females might play if they had the option to play female characters...

Sometimes, but rarely with the key actor. Especially when they're using a "star" rather than a voiceover actor.