...except that Viewtiful Joe was rated Teen?

Horrors, a “black-clad bondage slut”!

Wow! I’m not sure I even ever knew that. xD I thought it was just a lesbian kiss at the time.

Haha! I was so used to playing other, less intelligent RPGs that it took me something like a year (real-time) in Ultima V to realize that I wasn’t getting to the good stuff in the game because I kept jacking daggers out of people’s underwear drawers. xD

Not even a little bit. (Well, in all fairness this is Capcom, but Nintendo did actually allow this onto the GameCube, so...)

Nintendo is *really* inconsistent with what they actually manage to object to, when it comes to protecting the chil’uns on their platforms and all, at least by our Western standards. What they think is too spicy for the kids seems to differ at least a little from, say, what Disney would be okay with.

From what I can see - it is a sporadic, but concerning, actual thing, and various redneck gasaholic message boards are trying to make it a bigger thing. The more concerning part about it is going to come when these redneck thugs escalate things, and/or beat the shit out of a Tesla owner just for being a Tesla owner.…

That is how much I loved that game, I never noticed or seemed to mind.

I beat the entire game without knowing once that you could press a button in order to change player commands in subsequent rounds during a fight.

To me - 4 was good, but 2 was great! I wanted to see more Easter eggs/secrets and more variable gameplay in 4 generally considering how late in the cycle it was, plus I felt like it was hobbled by having to continue the plot/continuity of 3 (which was so disappointing to me).  

Yeah, that series was immense and still in many ways better than a lot of games released today. Ultima V was the high-water mark for me - the storytelling! The usurper Blackthorn taking over Lord British’s castle! Open-world gameplay where you could sneak (with extreme difficulty) into Blackthorn’s throne room and…

Yup, I would be hard pressed to name a sci-fi plot that hit the feels harder.  I’d still nominate that title for any top 10 list of the best writing in a game to date.

Israel has created a people that hate it more than they love their own lives, it is true.

Untreated wounds cause infection.

Yup. You don’t need an engineered superbug when you can just so badly militarily occupy and oppress a people that they’re drinking their own shit.

How about we ask Israel where all the *billions* in aid money is going?

Because Gaza is run by terrorists?

This has been warned about for a year, if not more. 97% of Gaza’s water table is contaminated by sewage. And you’re not out of line to wonder. The Black Plague famously spread to Europe because plague-infected corpses were tossed over the walls by the Mongol hordes suffering from the disease at the siege of Caffa.

Then you surely won’t mind if we advocate that cute little Israeli kids live in the same rubble-strewn conditions, with the same kinds of illnesses caused by sewage contamination not seen anywhere else in the Western world.

Looks like a great port, which is too rare lately!