Recent content by wrshamilton

I prefer the Escapist when it projects an editorial voice with some kind of gravitas. This reads as if written by someone who has never met a woman or seen a romantic comedy. But then your sources are the Telegraph and the Daily Beast, so I guess you can't be entirely blamed for the lack of...

I think it's difficult to say that Evil has anything to do with overcharging for videogames. That comment about Fallout 3 is probably true, though, since Bethesda seems to be firmly against paying anyone who can write.

I didn't read the thread before I posted, so I repeated a post a bunch of other people had already made. It's convenient for the Stardock CEO to out himself as a bad person, though, usually they're harder to spot.

Not being able to take cards out of your deck as you add new ones to it ruined this for me. I understand not having full deck construction, but just slowly making your deck bigger is the strangest introduction to Magic.

Oh my god, stop reporting this nonsense story from this PR-craving moron about nothing at all. There isn't a number of words in the English language. If there were, that number wouldn't be obtained by reference to a dictionary. You even employed the he said/but he said trick of pretending to...

Easy places to unload used goods are where you exchange stolen goods for meth. I'm not saying it's a good or justified law, just offering a potential problem they could be trying to solve.

I think Jillete in general is around half full of himself and half full of shit, but there's at least a little something to this, and the comment doesn't seem mean-spirited. One possible difference between the two crimes is that there are surviving victims of rape and sexual assault for whom...

I'm a little wary of this post's enthusiasm for making games for people who can't be bothered to read.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=972 the "million word" hoax rolls along edit: gtfo noob

I think if more reviewers start talking about these sorts of things one of the first things they're going to want to do is be careful about the term - there isn't a preset mise-en-scene (forgive the absence of the diacritic) in a game. Which isn't to say there isn't one, just that one can't talk...

If my brain has been put into a robot body, I demand the strength of five gorillas.

While I agree that this is a stupid promotional idea, I'm having a little trouble seeing how "GameSpot Offends Fatties" isn't repeating the mistake.

It makes your opinion about what is or isn't or should or shouldn't be important for people of different backgrounds pretty uninteresting and irrelevant, yes. It's hard for people (me definitely included, not trying to make assumptions about you) with a certain kind of dedicatedly geek...

It's a good thing we have white dudes around to decide for us which identity issues we get to complain about.

One of the most surreal experiences I've had on live is listening to Brit teenagers repeating endlessly what I'd always thought were pretty exclusively American slurs.