Gamers And The Women Who Hate Them: Child Man Meet Man Teen
Comment by: hahnchen
Nominated by: creid

This woman is under the impression that men need some outlet to vent their masculine rage and engage in childish fantasies. She's wrong.

The old west is dead. The real world, where daring, muscle and aggression are no longer valued *is* the comforting one. This is the world that men want. Those daring, muscle bound Nukems are sent to die in Iraq, whilst the bankers and lawyers get rich.

No one cares about a woman's ticking biological clock. The driving factor in life is career, status, money. Family can come later in men's lives, so it does. That's not an indication of man-teen or fucking child-man or whatever you want to call it. This is a shifting of priorities caused by greater social mobility, higher education and globalisation.

The author has confused growing up with the desire for a family, to conform with 1950s social norms, to do the same job their father did, in the same town, to marry their highschool sweetheart and take their 2.4 children to church on a Sunday. The entire article is based on a false assertion that playing computer games involves infantalisation, that computer games are somehow more immature than getting pointlessly drunk, watching Big Brother, and instigating punch ups.

No, you're wrong. Men have grown up.

Gamers And The Women Who Hate Them: Child Man Meet Man Teen
Comment by: Doomstalk
Nominated by: P-Sheddy

I can understand her dislike of video games, but what does she have against microwaved gastropub ready meals? They're the greatest hing since sliced omnibread.

VR Head Tracking For The PS3
Comment by: Ultimate Pancake Sensation
Nominated by: BernardMcGraw

To all the posters saying that this doesn't have any practical applications in gaming, I say pshaw!
People grow up using their body as their primary tool; if you want to do something, you move. This is natural for us. Have you ever watched someone unskilled at gaming playing a game? Even veteran gamers do some interesting things that they may or may not be aware of. I've seen players jerk the controller upwards to get Mario to jump and others move their heads sideways to try to get a better view of something in the game.
The key part of this technology is that it is intuitive, and that's really, really important to developers. New and old gamers alike will be able to easily figure out how to use these features because it directly correlates to what we have grown up experiencing our whole lives.
In addition, while the tech demos only showed how you can simulate 3D on the screen, there are certainly many more applications to this! The key idea is that the game now knows where you are in relation to the TV! This means that physical actions in the real world such as ducking, sidestepping, perhaps even jumping can now have significance within the game you are playing - without requiring the use of a button, analog stick, or anything else.
This really has the possibility of taking gaming to a whole new level.

Umbrella Chronicles Outsells Zack & Wiki 3:1, Tears Stream Down Our Faces
Comment by: EngimaNemesis
Nominated by: Shindokie

Oh man ... *shivers* ... I LOVED me the flak cannon, I can peck a rats ass at 800 yards with the alt fire while double jumping to the right as the rat has a seizure!
People have to realize ... the people posting these articles, it is their site. They have opinions like anyone else. There is no law that they have to be some holy objective stiffs while they do it. Sure we don't always agree, and there is a lot of times I don't as well. But I respect them for their opinion, and I as well as other regulars for a long time now WILL call them out on it, in a respectful and constructive manner. And they respect us for that. Because we all know damn well we have our own opinions on reserve.
It is a mutual respect and love we have for one another. *bats eyelashes at the staff*
Anyhow... this site is the best gaming site out there. Everything else is video and pic fodder for all I care.
You want objective things, then be objective yourself... and choose and pick what you choose to see. Until you are blessed with perfect objectivity ... [todays word of the day kids, OBJECTIVE] ... you all have no room for talk.
I love the fact they tell us how they feel, and not beat around the bush and be full o' shit like other big sites hiding behind corporate policies and advertising smut!
Carry on!

Umbrella Chronicles Outsells Zack & Wiki 3:1, Tears Stream Down Our Faces
Comment by: dv8godd
Nominated by: Shindokie

I think a significant percentage of readers are oddly confused by the concept of a "blog" (not "news" site... but not a "non-news" site either... just a "blog")... and a disproportionate number of those seem to be unaware that they're free to go elsewhere.

It was an unpopular view when I said it before when Wilson ran his "Reviews are Broken" piece... but I find the idea of objective reporting on "experiences" like games to be a farce anyway. The whole point of experience is that it is subjective. There is no such thing as an objective experience. That means opinion, not fact. Want facts? Check the packaging.

Do people ask for objective reviews of cereal? 12mg sodium... 3mg potassium... 4mg... no, they don't. They want to know if it's "good". Well I'm sorry, but "good" is a subjective term, case closed, no appeal.

Anyone that didn't realize that much of the Kotaku staff were fans of Z&W clearly missed the obvious when the 2007 Goaties came out. And at what point did it become hazy that nearly everything here is speckled with opinion?

And yes, some of us disagree at times... but we can do it without being absolute twats to each other... well, sometimes.

But yes, I agree... the whole reason I come here is because they DO tell us how they feel about things. I'd far rather have the subjective reflection of a person who's tastes I share than the objective calculations of a person who's tastes are hidden behind a wall of careful, calculated diction. Want your review to be all about the math? Head to Gamespot, they'll give you the math:

[dollars in advertising paid by publisher]
x [number of user's clicking on game's page before release]
- [a few points for the number of maps it has less than Halo]
+ [the number of modes it has above single player]
= review score

Jesus, that shit is the whole reason I came here in the first place.

And that doesn't mean people can't disagree... I'm more than willing to respect ANYONE's opinion, especially the more I get to know them, because that's exactly the kind of subjective view I enjoy and find useful. It just means do it with some goddamn tact and back it up with some intelligent discussion.

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