Recent content by DojiStar

C'mon, there were some decent battles. Like the siege of Gibraltar, and some decent naval battles. The fact that none of us Yankees were present is another story... Also, seriously, Washington did a lot. Like get half the colonial army to quit day 1 when he ordered flogging for...

I used to have that problem, too, but I found marriage to be an excellent cure -- albeit more expensive than therapy. More seriously, it is nice to see gaming and thinking about gaming portrayed in a more positive mental health light than just as unhealthy "escapism". I would think that...

I don't disagree with Spector, exactly, but I thought his long interviewer several years ago emphasized the power of having a robust game engine allowing players to create their own narrative, not author-imposed storytelling. We have far too much of the later in games already. A better...

These comments are way too understanding, thoughtful, and non-contentious. I expect more from forums. I'll try to do better: Well, I've been getting a pretty "console-like experience" from the fact that all games now are crappy console ports for the brain dead who can't type or figure out...

I find it amusing that the author pegged Nietzsche as Chaotic Evil when the whole point of nihilism is that it is a meta ethical position that holds that there are no objective ethics. Using an objective ethical system to classify someone who doesn't believe it exists is ironic. For the...

Wow, people are calling "games for children" imaginative and innovative when 99.9% of them are the crappiest movie/cartoon/merch licensed dross ever? Seriously? I think we're picking out the VERY BEST non-violent games and comparing them to mainstream games that are particularly boring...

There's more (and less) to it than that. He wasn't really proposing a super advanced scientific theory for which there was no evidence at the time (although it turned out that way in retrospect). He was attempting to balance the two great opposing schools of Western philosophy: empiricism...

Did you deliberately leave out ALL my favorite philosophers? I can see your rationalist bias (no Heraclitus, Pyrro, Hume -- well, ok, at least Aristotle and Locke made it). How can you leave out KANT? You must be frickin neo-Platonic rationalist intellectual circle-jerkers, lost in your...

"Crossplay" is an unfortunate choice of terminology. I was initially horrified to click on this article's link because it sounds like anime or game cosplayers dressing up as characters of the opposite gender. Nothing wrong with that, I just don't want to see any more Sailor Moons with hairy...

Let's face it, past-decade Bioware games are JRPGs for the westernized market. Maybe a little more illusion of freedom and a bit more choice, but one basically gets shoehorned into moving along a mostly linear path with a bunch of sidequests. They're all about the story, the personalities, the...

This is why I was so shocked while watching Death Note. I was thinking, "Wait, do Japanese people still really believe that anyone charged with a crime is guilty? It's usually just some poor convenient schmoe who was beaten into a confession." Confessions aren't even useful for capturing...

SUPA FRANKY, you have a point, but I see Escapist anime review corner as a place to find reviews of older or quirky series and introduce things I might not have heard of. There are an awful lot of places to find news and reviews of current, popular, and breaking series. Also, I believe...

Hopefully, families and new board game buyers will get out of the tired old US boardgames from decades ago or, worse still, licensed buy-more-merch garbage and get into some of the excellent European-styled boardgames released over recent years. From Settlers of Catan to Dominion, there's a...

Perfect story. As you get older, you realize it's all about giving, not receiving. And the best gift you can give? GUILT.

This article started off great, and I appreciate the perspective from tabletop RPGs.... However, for those into tabletop GNS (gamist-narrativist-simulationist) theory, narrativism is NOT necessarily "progress" -- it's just DIFFERENT. Dogs in the Vineyard and Primetime Adventures are good...