Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

Is referring to all residents of North, Central, and South America as "Americans" a useful definition? Is there some unifying point between Argentina and Canada? We're talking about two separate continents here. The suggestion that it should apply to disparate groups of people spread over two continents, IMO,… Read more

A vast majority of Canadians disagree with what you said. I don't think I've ever met a single Canadian who would agree that they are an American. Live in North America, yes. Be an American, no. Nor would they consider a Mexican or a Brazillian to be an American. Read more

Mad props for the Ham Tyler reference, Kotaku. He'll always be Ham Tyler to me.

I wonder how the idea of killing redcoats will go over in the UK? After all, the revolutionary war in the U.S. didn't seem to reasonable to everyone in the U.S., let alone outside of it. Read more

D-Pad is not horrible on the 360 controller with the transforming D-Pad, IMO. Analogue stick placement is fantastic for games that are button-press heavy, and you get used to it for games that are right-stick heavy (again, IMO).

Yes, it's not hard to be worse than one of the best console controllers ever made. :P Read more

I think his question, and it's an interesting one, is why someone would. So, why would you? Read more

They may or may not deserve the money, IMO, depending on whether the claims they were secretly working with EA are demonstrated to be factual or not. Read more

You raise an interesting point. Jealousy may have played a role, as you would have had decision-makers at Activision being paid less than some of the people at Infinity Ward. Read more

It's on the public record now due to the court proceedings, but that doesn't necessarily argue against your point that it's discourteous. Read more

Infinity Ward had great enthusiasm and confidence for the first Modern Warfare, whereas Activision had none (they had trouble seeing the CoD franchise migrating away from World War II games, which had been all they'd been up until then). I can see why Activision would structure COD4:MW that way, but I'm surprised… Read more

Bottom row centre appears to be a crystal Xbox, not a white (PD:Oorta or otherwise) Xbox). Read more

I don't see the white Oorta Xbox, I see the Crystal Xbox which was released in several territories (I bought one here in Canada). Read more

I don't see a white Xbox in that pic. I do see the "crystal" Xbox, that was a standard variety at one point late in the Xbox's life. Read more

No Mattel Intellivision. That's a key system, IMO. It blazed so many trails. Read more

Jealousy is an ugly thing. Piles of people would love to have this setup. Read more

"There is no way in hell EA would buy up an exclusive license and then not publish on an available console platform. Whatever you may think of them, thats antithetical to their corporate philosophy. They're not fighting the war, they're the arms supplier. They'll publish on anything." Read more

People are also assuming that there will be a baseball game on the PS3 next year as well. Read more

I prefer women in tight-fitting/flattering business attire. All the better to pull them out of it. Read more

I also didn't recall it coming out that late in the original trilogy. Though I don't recall other games from that era being more advanced. I was, however, only 10 in 1983. :) Read more