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The joke, however, was based on the notion that a man sleeping with a man is somehow shameful--also, there's a strong implication that the person Firedorn (the guy who ran off a cliff) slept with was either sufficiently androgynous that he thought he was sleeping with a woman, or because the...

Hmm, I'm inclined to agree with IceForce here. What is the difference between GamerGaters feeling angry about articles calling 'gamers' dead, and, say, a transgendered person finding the Pillars of Eternity joke insulting?

Videogames are so morally corrupting that even people fighting for their banning become bad people. I guess Senator Yee was right. (pfft)

I feel that, while Dark Souls certainly can be quite difficult at times, and demands a good deal of timing, patience, and learning from your mistakes (particularly from the DLC bosses I've fought so far)... ...I also feel that many players, and in particular advertisements and gaming...

That depends on your definition for "art". For some, art is primarily, or even solely, for expressing something that the artist wants to express--sometimes at the expense of the audience.

"Hope is the first step on the road to dissapointment." -Warhammer 40k

Now I'm having flashbacks of getting hit in the face by the ol' Red Lightning Hose. damn it I just washed these pants

I suspect that the modders who claim that they want more immersion with child killing are simply hiding the fact that they just want to stab some obnoxious brats in the face. They won't say this aloud, of course, since "I enjoy slaughtering children" is typically frowned upon, but I strongly...

There MUST be more things like this on the Escapist. Extra Consideration is to gaming journalism what the Avengers or Justice League is to Marvel and DC; they take some of the best and most interesting elements in their subject matter and not only put them together, but force them to...

Agreed. The entire debate over whether videogames are/should be/are not/can/can't be art seems irrelevant given that there is no agreed upon definition of art. A friend of mine believes that art MUST convey some sort of ideology, and thus anything that does not (including works made primarily to...

Hrm, I'm a bit torn. On one hand, the bill will do away with some of what I see as gratuitous fanservice (Familiar of Zero, I'm looking at you). On the other, everything John Funk points out sounds like valid concerns--freedom of speech, the inability to include sexual scenes for artistic...

To be fair, I think James Portnow is the one behind the actual writing of each episode, and in Mailbag #1 Floyd states that James was a game designer for a AAA publisher and was the head of a studio behind a MMO. Floyd mostly reads what Portnow writes and tweaks some stuff, so I suspect that...

And this is why I didn't privately message the handful of EC critics on the commentary threads; there wouldn't have been interesting discussion like this if I did. ;) Common sense truism? I, and apparently a good number of people, learned a lot from watching EC, and while I wouldn't say that...

Will do. Let's see... From "Symbolism 101": From: "Gamer" ...though this search seems to indicate that there's a lot less of this sentiment than I thought there was. Nonetheless, I am glad that this thread is generating interesting replies, such as...

Because I also want people to try and have debates over these "specific reasons" once I find them out. If I'm lucky, the people who think EC is preachy might also get online some time in the near future.