Recent content by Chirez

I think it'd be a good idea to check whether or not he is a journo, sounds like you're making assumptions based on prejudices there. Perhaps justifiably, I wouldn't know. What I do know is that while you have a picture of him, he has a picture of them. I think he wins that round. If you're...

The argument that the generic white male protagonist is needed to appeal to consumers does contain the implicit assumption that the majority share of the games market is white and male. I'm pretty sure that's simply not true.

So, ok, the elves, dwarves, gnomes, goblins and trolls are all present in folklore dating back past the point where people learned to write things down. The reason they are so prevalent is that they are so deeply embedded in north european mythology as to be broadly recognisable. Amalur, it's...

Thanks for covering this. It's probably the biggest and least obvious current issue related to games. I quickly googled the dialogue for both since it's an easily quantifiable and reliable indicator, apparently in the time of DX its 10k spoken lines were startling enough to be worth mentioning...

False equivalence. Murdering people is bad, regardless of age or any other qualities. Sex is generally not bad, given the sole qualifier of consent. Armouring anything against death is a real problem in a game where your actions are intended to have some effect on your environment. At the most...

To be poor is to lack the luxury of money to buy a computer or pay for internet and to lack the time to watch movies or play games or to browse forums like this one. Nobody who's actually poor can answer this question, posed in this way. So you're asking privileged people what they consider...

Ah, yes, my research was too cursory it seems. Thankyou for the correction. Also, never trust the Sun.

I have checked, to be certain. The program airs at 9pm, which is the watershed time. It's post watershed, and therefore can't be argued on that basis. The 'program for the majority' argument is awful. Do that and you end up with every show exactly the same, bland and boring. Well done to...

'Fuck it' has always been my preferred option in most circumstances. Wait, that sounded better in my head... Ah, well. Fuck it.

Why, exactly, can a human mind do this, but a computer simulation cannot? What mystic property does your brain contain which is outside the realm of simulation? Is it your soul?

"Critics hate all popular movies." is not, in fact, a fallacy. It is merely false. A fallacy is a flawed article of reasoning, this is not an argument, and therefore cannot be or contain a fallacy. "This movie is popular, therefore critics will hate it." is fallacious. As is the reverse...

On the point about a game being good despite its impact on the player, I'm unconvinced. If we take the stand that games in all their forms are art, albeit for the most part really bad art, then surely the effect of the experience on the player is fundamental. A 'good' game must affect the...

Ok, so I really suspect the poll numbers are skewed by people from the US, where a cop without a gun is considered ridiculous. As far as that video goes, firstly if they'd had guns, then what? I'm not convinced that shooting a mental patient for being mental is entirely justifiable, though...

One point I would make is about the 'If your boss offered you $100 an hour to play Tetris, would you refuse because you hate "greed"?' analogy. What if we change it to 'If a homeless guy offered you $100 for directions to the nearest McDonalds, would you refuse because you're blatantly taking...

I wonder if there's an opening there for a Wikileaks style outfit, which publishes the full legal history of corporate entities, so people can actually see and know what these companies are doing. Just because it can't legally be discussed, doesn't mean it can't be posted on the internet.