Recent content by Zamn

There isn't a very coherent argument here for why piracy is theft under some circumstances. There's a (good) argument for why piracy of a certain sort is bad, but that doesn't make it theft. It may be as bad as theft, but it's not actually theft. This isn't just a legalistic point. Having...

I have to say that listening to Movie Bob being all snooty about conventional murder mysteries as a genre struck me as a bit odd. How would he feel about someone saying that superhero movies are fundamentally lightweight and a bit of a waste of time for top-tier directors?

I'm afraid I could only focus on one thing on this article. Couldn't care less. I really want to believe that this most-awful-of-all-Americanisms was inserted by some Escapist sub-editor and not Mr Croshaw. Please God let that be true.

There's an adjective for 'Britain' you know. You might use it for things like, say, British wilderness or British-born slave. In Movie Bob's defense though, the people complaining about the confusion between Britain, England and Scotland are wrong. I know Americans usually get this wrong, but...

I agree that this just going to start whack-a-mole with PayPal accounts and won't solve the gold selling problem. The people arguing Blizzard shouldn't bother or even sell gold or items themselves, however, are well wide of the mark. Nobody playing WoW (well almost nobody) wants to see gold...

Sorry to burst your bubble on this one but there is no serious climatologist who rejects anthropomorphic climate change. I'm not exaggerating, not a single one. The idea that man-made climate change is controversial in the scientific community is complete misinformation. As a 'theory' it is no...

Unfortunately your proposed interesting choices aren't very interesting when you dig down a bit. Ranged weapons with better distance but less damage. Everyone would pick better damage, besides it's the same as the choice you identified. Being able to stand further from what you're shooting...

Trying to come up with a better way to categorise games is a noble endeavor (I think I just love categorising things). I'm not sure if you've quite pulled it off though. It fails the intuition test for me. Some genres that are meant to go together (like music and platforming) don't really feel...

Good video. Would have been better with reference to non-American (i.e. real) sports. :)

All the stuff in the future is a shitheap as far as I'm concerned. The stupidity of the Pieces of Eden and old Gods and all that crap only compounds it. It could easily stand on its own as a series of episodes of the assassin/templar struggle without any reference to the future. Personally I...

They're not broken, they're gone. They don't want people hanging out in Northrend anymore.

New Vegas and Civ V are obvious (from the pictures in the article if nothing else; Civ V isn't really that buggy, although definitely unfinished). I'm guessing the last one is Fable 3 judging by the complaints about bugs in today's review.

It sounds like you think of controlling one player as the primary game mode and the entire team as a side-feature. You have it rather backwards I'm afraid.

I was pretty disappointed with this article. I hate the idea that philosophy is something that some hairy men made out of marble did in Ancient Greece. "What makes a game good?" is an interesting philosophical question, and I don't think asking "What would Plato say?" is a good way of answering...

Personally, I don't give a toss. I'm going to open it anyway. On the off chance the disc is scratched or something, I'll return it.