Recent content by ThinkerT

I think it's completely relevant. If it's just "sex", then what you say is true, but that then is the crux of Jim's complaints - it's just sex as an achievement in the game, not any sort of mature intimacy. However, if the sex is the culmination of the developing relationship, I think anyone...

Agree with both of you. You both said it well, so I won't reiterate much, other than to reinforce the idea that this is pretty much how it HAS to work in video games. Video games tell a (loosely) scripted story, so to some extent the relationships have to be scripted as well. You can't grow...

It's not a smokescreen at all, and he addresses it head on several times. I'm not sure how you're missing it at this point. Yes, PCs have (some) DRM. Yes, DRM sucks. No one is attempting to make the argument that DRM is "okay" for consumers in and of itself. But PC gaming has ALL of these...

The details aren't minor and they do matter. As is usually the case, the devil is in the details. Saying that Steam is like what MS is proposing is like saying a filet mignon is like a hamburger. After all, they're both food made from cows, so everything else is a minor detail, right? But...

First, exposure doesn't equal promotion, except in a very general sense of making people aware that it exists. No legitimate reviewer in any field refuses to review something because they don't want to give it any "promotion". Second, why can't he be both a game reviewer AND a consumer...

Regarding the passing of time, isn't there something in the Gotham update on the TV in the pit that says "Day 83" or something like that? That's how I got my first realization that a significant amount of time was passing. And on the Talia twist - I agree that it wasn't done particularly...

I think it barely makes Kate Winslet's top 3 career highpoints, at best right behind The Reader and Titanic.

I'd say Bob got it pretty spot on with this one. It's good, but in a popcorn-movie kind of way, not in a thoughtful, quality movie kind of way. However, Bob must have walked into the movie a little late. Let's just say they certainly find an excuse at the beginning of the movie to show Jolie...

Arrghhh! Will people stop saying this? You have to think about it in context of how it would have been designed in reality, not in context of the gameplay. Think about it - whoever designed the security system wouldn't have assumed the contamination would travel through the ventilation...