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"But Neku... I thought you couldn't afford to lose. Give up on yourself, and you give up on the world." - Joshua, The World Ends With You "Listen up, Phones. 'Cause I ain't askin' twice. Please... help me. Ya gotta help me save her!" - Beat, The World Ends With You "Win, live. Lose, die...

Elliot from El Goonish Shive [http://www.egscomics.com], making his ANGRY FACE.

Chrono Trigger and Morrowind.

I once borrowed my friend's copy of some JRPG, and fell in love with it. I played it for a few months, and had to give it back to him. This, combined with the fact that it's Chrono Trigger, got me on the last time I was able to play through the game. It was like tears of love, though. The...

Not a lot, but ALL THE TIME while playing Morrowind. Actually, I talk to other people while playing it. Whether they like it or not.

We can't disprove something you learned through experience by talking to you. Actions and pictures both speak louder than words, but I say experiences are priceless. So, convince yourself by changing your play experience. The problem here is that you're playing an MMORPG. If you don't want...

In this particular case, go with my girlfriend. I can spend plenty of time just talking. I hate "just talking." It's like "Just standing there" in my opinion, because it's just as exciting and productive, except that it's more awkward and really draining. I'm a severe introvert.

The original Paper Mario, only because she loves the other two so much.

Probably. But we can't yet, and we have many steps to take before we can. We shouldn't look so far into the future when we need to deal with the present. Saying that we can't because we don't know how we could yet is rediculous. We didn't know how to make a television in the 1700s, but we...

Excellent point. Perhaps a better definition is that it should be an intentful expression of emotion? Or an attempt to make another person feel an emotion? Which actually would make many video games not art. On the other hand, some still would be. So the game part can be art, I say. Not...

I have Tourette's Syndrome but not Coprolalia. Tourette's syndrome manifests itself as a variety of "tics." I've heard before that these are involuntary, but in my case this is not true. Think about the way you feel when you have an itch. It takes all your concentration to avoid scratching...

The mechanics are simply an attempt to make someone feel an emotion. Typically reward (ever heard about the Skinner box?), exhilaration, competition, fear, and... the emotion where you're trying to balance on something and begin to fall off. As I said before, in my opinion that makes it art...

I think all games always have been art. Art is, in my opinion, any attempt to express an emotion. This means that bullying is an art; flirting is an art; speech is an art; intimidation is an art; game design is an art; killing is an art. The emotions one is trying to convey are, respectively...