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    A Week (Or So) In Comments

    Awesome Gamer Lesbian Wedding
    Comment by: TheOmnitron
    Nominated by: (Human) Gyaruson

    Unfortunately, this wedding was refused classification by the Australian marriage board...

    Breaking Down the Sex in Dragon Age: Origins
    Comment by: iqbalicarus
    Nominated by: Showmeyomoves!

    "But the casual sex, which could be used as a tool to deepen your understanding and empathy for the other characters, tends to reinforce the idea of women as alternately jealous, catty, smothering, and weak-willed (easily taking back a lover that has strayed), while perpetuating the stereotype of the promiscuous gay/bisexual man. I guess what I'm saying is...the sex could be better."

    Except that, in a histrionic cosmos (fiction, theater, film), the world exists in bedlam. Sexual jealousy, erotomania and the obscene suffering of a thousand Pietas are the stuff that arrest our passions. Videogames do not exist in order to 'present ideas' or conjure archetypes. They exist in order to satisfy a universal will-to-nullification. Where else can the bureaucrat, these days, violate Paradise? Workers, especially in a democracy, always have fascist dreams: everyone wants to ejaculate death. Who the hell looks for moral realism in a videogame? Character, in videogames, is defined by exaggeration: the princess who pleads, the plumber who saves her and the Tyrant who grotesquely mirrors the hero (The 'dark double' is videogaming's immortal cliche. Mario = sexless longing. Wario = Coprophilia). The ethos, usually, is 'Murder Death Kill.'

    So, why the fuck does this gesticulating dandy pretend that he will find a glorious image of Empathy within the gutter? Martin Buber never went to Sodom.

    Leave us workers our pyromania.

    Winter Wonder October
    Comment by: deanbmmv
    Nominated by: D-K, a burning sensation

    Not so Wonderful
    To: Bash
    From: Crecente
    Re: What a Weird Day

    So after spending the day making snow angels in the backyard
    I found out my neighbour has really really bad dandruff.
    Ew.

    Final Fantasy XIII: "Shut Up And Come Quiet"
    Comment by: Americo
    Nominated by: Showmeyomoves!

    I'd come quiet, but that would take away from the moment.

    Toyota Exec: Realistic Video Games Make Cars Unnecessary
    Comment by: GunFlame
    Nominated by: aurahackºAllant

    He's right, I've been driving OutRun to work for almost 20 years.

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