My god! I've played almost every game on that list! This is fantastic!

They actually gave it a whirl; that's fantastic.

Artists have been shutting up and making pictures for the past 80 years. At this point it's beating a dead horse. The "I'm not trying to say anything I'm doing art for art's sake!" is no longer new...it's just an excuse to be shallow.

@svetlana: Er, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, I meant.

@Trygle12 is FREE!... and waiting for Disgaea 2: But that's what I'm saying. There may be a correlation (and it's not as though anyone could do accurate research on this anyway; the best you can do is speculate) between a _desire_ to commit rape and the playing of those kinds of games, but I don't know that a direct…

@Valnen: Thank you. I don't think the rape game ban matters, nor do I believe the moralistic posing of the Diet, or that the American Senators in question care about anything more than padding their wallets with the money of their bible-beating constituents. But in this argument about Rapeplay and the fallout from…

@Neer'mo: Balm on the burn. Thank you for replying in your articulate, thoughtful manner, mitigating a great deal of my frustration spawned by this individual and mitigating it in language more generous than I would have been able to manage. More diplomatic folk like you, here, would be a good thing.

Ahaha, I do enjoy the flash mob links as I'm often oblivious to the initial waves they create on the internet, and I'd miss them completely if they didn't pop up in random places like this.

Well but while you may have had the opportunity to be surprised, by the time it got to regular, non-advance-copy gamers, some asshat would have leaked the possibilities all over the internet anyway. Without the decency to put up those bold-face spoiler warnings. So, while I agree that it would be a powerful gaming…

All of this is rather moot. The boundaries were ethnocentrically drawn. Geologically speaking, Europe and Asia are on the same damn plate. Urals or no Urals, it's the same landmass. Uppity "Europeans" simply chose not to associate themselves with "those" folks over t'other side of the mountains, choosing to take…

I had just the opposite reaction to the voiceovers—the sister was the only person I could muster any interest in. Mercer himself was painfully constructed to please the slavering fans in his emotionally insecure demographic—"Ooh, I'm a bitter young city guy despite my rural accent and growl when I talk, ooh"—and all…

Statistically there are way more children with food allergies now than there were, say, in the 1980s. Which seems odd to me since didn't it dawn on people in the 90s or so that giving kids fake food robs them of the opportunity to "deal with" things like gluten, peanuts and dairy at an age where their bodies can…

@choral_music: Aye, getting away from the labels would be a wonderful thing, but even if the commenting public could wean themselves of their sweet sweet tools of generalization (right), as long as labels continue to pop up on powerpoint presentations in board meetings deciding which projects should be funded and…

And here I thought your "age old dilemma" was going to be the Lesbian Urge To Merge...

@Shadowmist: Your reminiscences push me further down the slippery slope than the video itself. I was very young when I played, and on a dial-up connection at that, so my resume isn't nearly so illustrious—ha! let them laugh!—as yours. But I think the main thing that calls me back to EQ is just that—the fact that I…

Hey, I missed the first one but do feel better. Agreed re: what everyone else says about the stress factor of unprecedented, Where The Hell Did You Come From medical issues. One day you're griping about traffic and that lousy ticket lady you can SEE approaching your car from the end of the street you're careening…

@ThatMiamiDude: Actually many of those of an age and interest level most likely to buy games don't have the burdens of rent, food etc. placed on them. It was already becoming a common thing for people to stay on with their parents, after college, until marriage, and with the economy the way it is, probably it will be…

Agreed re: want. I didn't even know a member of the female contingent had written this since I ran off to play to video as soon as it loaded, halfway through reading the article on it. And I agree. Can say I want this as many times as I like. Pity on those whose machismo inhibits them on this point.

Say what? One must change the color of the nelf form to get the cat's color to change? Bah! What if you want to be a white-haired druid who turns into a black cat? And no, feral druids aren't always in form. (I don't think. I don't know. I play a priest.) If they were I wouldn't see all those smarmy elves…

@xAngelGabrielx: I'm made slightly nervous by the close proximity of this and the Snow Leopard release. As with any new hyped release there are bound to be some glitches (the last I was really aware of was MobileMe, but it doesn't seem to have received too much negative press...possibly because it was aiming a bit…