@slowfame: Is your job punctuation hate monger? Or are you just lazy?

I'm a fan of Steve Politi, a sports writer for the Star-Ledger. His tweets were pretty damn amusing.

Sharktopus dance party!

"Still, is it too much to ask for a midget in a lab coat hiding... who bursts out when you enter the room and demands you pee in his cup?"

I lost it while listening to Beast of Blood. It's a song by Malice Mizer, an incredibly weird Japanese rock band. I'm just glad the video wasn't playing when we were boning.

Grab the Karaoke mike, request LMFAO's "I'm going to Miami" and loudly announce that you're taking your talents to South Beach.

When I read that you were rocking a vintage Barkley jersey, all I could think of was this:

Maybe Karen Sypher showed her "abdomen" off to Farve?

My Keith van Horn Nets jersey was the only piece of Nets memorabilia I wasn't totally ashamed to wear. Now when I wear it to a bar, I'm going to get the shit kicked out of me AND the bartender is going to think I want a PBR. God damn you, hipsters.

Thor would translate very well to a video game, and I'm hoping that Sega gets the job done this time.

@TuxBobble: You raise some excellent points.

@TuxBobble: The value isn't great for you in the first month, but it's ridiculous to extrapolate that to the entire lifecycle of the service. On the Playstation blog, they've stated that future "free trial" games will be unreleased titles or brand new, so you won't own them.

I'm sure I'll use the free game trials and definitely use the discounts, but the real selling point for me was automatic downloads. There's something really satisfying about reading, say, the Transformers demo goes live, signing in to PSN, and knowing that when I get home from work, it's all ready to go.

@SayChowdaFrenchie: As a lifelong philly sports fan, sadly I agree with you. I was wearing a Pete Inkaviglia jersey to a friend's 90's party. half the people there thought it was a personalized jersey. I weep for the future.

I really wish that people would calm down. Fans really wanted Sega to bring Yakuza 3 over to the west, despite lackluster sales for the first two games of the series.

Echoing the other commenters here. This is one of the best regular columns I read anywhere. Keep up the spectacular work Masked Man, and know that if you ever consider putting out a book about wrestling history, you've got at least one buyer, and I suspect many more.

@WildVulture: Not to mention I find it to be the worst kind of fanboy baiting.

Wow, I think this is blown a bit out of proportion. The Genesis/SNES console war was a close race with both systems getting triple A games. Sega didn't "lose" until the Dreamcast died out, over 10 years past the adverts you cite.

Between these stories and the failgate, Deadspin is turning into a regular Dog the bounty hunter. #searchingforenriquewilson

It's hard to believe they couldn't sell the game based on its own merits. I mean, you create one of the best adventure games of the year and one of the best survival horror games of the generation? Should be a slam dunk. Let people play the first level, then sit back and count money.