Recent content by chibichibiko

Space Orks. Any army that has a rule about sending in runts (read: children) to clear a minefield by making the mines super-effective gets my vote.

Achievements codify what is significant by some objective standard. Sure there are really easy achievements that no one cares about, and hard as nails achievements that require the sacrifice of livestock to have any hope at getting, but that has little to do with the general gratifying nature...

Love: because I enjoy them for challenge/escapism/narrative. To a certain point, I feel like games are a part of who I am. Defend: Because everything deserves a defense. If no one defends games, then the only thing that legislators will hear is the cry of the noisy majority/minority. I'm not...

Well, I suppose if you really wanted to get into the spirit of a dungeons and dragons adventure that combined a group of adventurers together, it would almost take a very particular cast to do it well. I mean, if you were going to do it right, you'd have to invoke some beloved semantics of...

I agree with the clinical psychologists: video game addiction doesn't exist. The 'test cases' for addiction seem to imply causation from correlation. "wah, I had everything going for me, and then I played video games (a lot) and it all went South from there" is the general paraphrase that I...