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Commented on One shot: <em>Bioshock</em>, the Paradigm edition
Homage or photoshopper-come-lately or ripoff? You decide.. Here!...
Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
I don't understand how you can violate the Geneva Conventions on COD:WaW. There are no civilians, there are no prisoners. And the history-genius mom found the game content accurate? Red-dot-style crosshairs on the weapons and recon planes that mimic GPS...
Commented on Ragdoll Metaphysics: Ten Things That Made Me Glad To Be A Gamer In 2008
This is the first positive thing about Burnout Paradise I've heard. Now I'm tempted to try it. Sorta....
Commented on Lawrence Lessig: the mistake in bailouts
And bankruptcy means the assets of these dinosaurs get reorganized: Someone else buys these companies, at a price the market sets, and runs them profitably, because of the price the market set. Except that Chrysler has already gone through this...
Commented on Russell Porter with human beatbox Beardyman (music)
And he sure ain't no Rahzel.....
Commented on Russell Porter with human beatbox Beardyman (music)
He's good, but I like Braintax....
Commented on Deadmalls as new urbanist playgrounds
This could be such a lovely civilization.....
Commented on Adaptive Path and Mozilla: future of Web-browsing video
Am I the only one getting severely choppy video? If it's any indication of how effectively the technoinnovation will be implemented, count me out....
Commented on Alleged Extended Stay America "very clean" video
I suppose I'll be seen as weird if I call the ad sexist and degrading. After all, we're living in a post-feminist world, so what's the big deal? Next up: Puma and Extended Stay team up to show a woman...
Commented on Greg Bear's amazing slideshow for City at the End of Time, a novel set at the death of the universe
Classy? I don't know if a Flash slideshow featuring vertical-only images and Times New Roman is all that classy. (And I have to be honest -- the photos didn't really dazzle me.)...
Commented on Robot "responds" to human attention
And when he gets really mad, he flails about with razor claws, lacerating your face. (And he orders everyone constantly to "Do the Bender".)...
Commented on Uni of Nottingham: Grad students researching terrorism aren't allowed to look at terrorist documents on US anti-terror gov't sites
I can't imagine the un-Western-ness of their names has anything to do with their being denied access to these documents. (/irony)...
Commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
I don't appreciate this post, because it puts me in the odd position of agreeing with something that appeared on FoxNews.com.....
Commented on Wooden geared contraption and its proud maker -- best gadget video you will watch this month, in all likelihood
"and this of course is modeled after a flyball governor" -- of course! (What the [badwerd] is a flyball governor?)...
Commented on Creative Zen Mosaic: Mondrian MP3 Monstrosity
I actually think it looks rather nifty. External speakers are a plus....
Commented on The E-Ball PC: Radioactive pokeball thingymajig
It's the OoGhiJ MIQtxxXA! Hello? Oog crazy! Rip own head off! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Computer...

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imon32red commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
I love it. I actually like the game too. However I have thought that it is too violent for my son to play so I have never bought it. The compromise is brilliant....
CatPee420 commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
Maybe, before he plays Pac-Man you should give him a nutrition guide. You don't want him to eat more pellets than a healthy pellet-eater should. Maybe it would help in his real life. Regardless, it is unlikely he will become a cold blooded killer no matter how he plays any game. He does, however, look as if he may be headed towards Chubbyville. That is worse than him car-jacking and assaulting everybody on Grand Theft Auto. Real life is not video games and vice-versa. Most (including my two) kids can kill every alien on a video game and then still...
Seattle commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
As PHD who wrote my dissertation on the Geneva Convention, I feel qualified as Doctor and a Geneva Convention expert to say that the room is to dark and OH, don't get me started on Martydom...
Sarrd commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
You can't play in Call of Duty 5 if you respect the Geneva Convention, but it's possible in CoD 4. There is an article in Slate.fr "How to play in video games with the Geneva Convention" (in french), it's interesting. http://www.slate.fr/story/comment-jouer-aux-jeux-vid%C3%A9o-en-respectant-la-convention-de-gen%C3%A8ve...
GregLondon commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
just finished all the levels in Call of Duty 4. It is impossible for you to violate the geneva convention during COD4. Though your AI comrades do. At one point, your CO executes a prisoner during interrogation. But you can't do anything about it other than watch. It isn't part of gameplay, it's one of the scenes in between levels. None of the enemy soldiers ever surrender. Sometimes when they are shot and wounded, they'll be on the ground shooting at you, but they never put their hands up and surrender. There are no civilians in the game that I...

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