Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

Since when has European gaming always been limited? Some of the biggest companies (Ubisoft, etc.) and studios (Rockstar North, etc.) are European. I'm in Canada, but a huge proportion of the games I played growing up were from European studios (Bitmap Brothers, DMA Design, Sensible Software, etc.) and publishers… Read more

I read "Battle Royale" in the headline and was excited for a game based on the cult hit Japanese book/movie. I am dissapoint. Read more

Cool. Would have been even better if you'd nailed the possessive. Or was that part of the joke? Read more

It says its republished from Gizmodo. So the real question is why it's not about electronics, not why it's not about gaming. Read more

Wow, that's crazy, a couple of my (non-Kotaku-reading) co-workers were talking about this just yesterday. Read more

What do you mean? The title says that the horse is a lesbian. We don't know anything about the sexual orientation of the human females. Read more

That was my first thought. Lesbian human stories might be more interesting for the average Kotaku reader. Read more

Hey look, that young boy is holding that older man's wood! Read more

It's not really as bad as all that. A working couple on very different work schedules can often find themselves eating separately for a lot of meals. Read more

Just as the "My Buddy" ads from the '80s where they encouraged you to "have a gay old time" with your buddy weren't quite as automatically innuendo-ish as it is now. Read more

I find the idea that people in a long-term relationship must get married kind of strange. Common law unions have done nothing but grow in popularity for generations, and with good reason if you ask me. I don't require a bunch of pomp and circumstance to be in a serious, committed, lifelong union with someone. Read more

"Also, you're in Canada, yet act like an authority on the subject of organized crime in America." Read more

"Care to explain that? Say I go five miles over the speed limit and no one sees me, how exactly does that affect me or someone else breaking a law over a point of principle?" Read more

"You sound dumb... Read more

Perhaps you're correct on the passion and vision front, but the damage had been done by the time they cost-reduced the PS3 in the ways you mentioned. Read more

How easily you can do so without supporting organised crime depends on where you live and what drugs you're seeking, I suppose, but most estimates peg the organised crime side of the drug trade at being dramatically higher than the cottage industry side of it. One need only look at the mayhem and death in Central… Read more

"Partaking in recreational drug use IS civil disobedience for a cause. I'm supporting the cause of personal freedom and unobtrusive government by displaying my disregard for their laws which infringe upon freedoms the government has no business denying me." Read more

I'm simply arguing that, much like the boy who cries wolf, that each time you break the law that it dilutes the power of breaking the law over a point of principle. Read more

Just because there are people you know who grow and sell their own dope, that doesn't mean it's legal, and that doesn't mean that the majority of the marijuana trade in North America isn't done via organised crime. Read more

I have a harder time imagining myself as a *patron* at a hostess club, than as a host/hostess. Seems like my ego would take a severe beating as a patron at that kind of an establishment, knowing it's all for show. Read more