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listen up libs. when i was a teenager, i came home late one night (cause i was having too much sex with hot gurls) and my dad was furious. he ended up drinking a bunch of beers and driving my car into the lake. really taught me a lesson.

now look at me. today i am a successful poster on giant bomb dot com. i think the results speak for themselves ;)

p.s. can people go back to talking about how a gun is totally just a tool like a butcher knife, or a harpoon, or...uh, a...an alligator cause it reminds me of that episode of the simpsons when homer gets a gun and that was a p good epi. tia!

sure, they're both guilty of doing something wrong. the problem here is that one of them is a mushy brained 15 year old girl that hasn't fully mentally developed yet and the other one is a grown ass man that should probably know better.

this really just seems like the typical "grr, my parents make me do stupid things and treat me like a child!" and "grr, my kid is so ungrateful and disrespectful!" conflict most parents and teenagers have.

only most parents manage to resolve the issue without destroying hundreds of dollars worth of electronics and publicly humiliating everyone involved.

seriously tho, kids these days are crazy ungrateful. just the other day i took my kids school shopping and tried to get my son some really nice clothes. the whole time he's just turning up his nose and i am like, "this shirt cost $20!" then he wants these expensive adidas shoes instead of the zipps i found. last time i checked school was for learning, not a fashion show.

then, i go out of town for a couple of days and he ends up in jail and getting my brand new porsche impounded!

i just don't understand.

is the lesson here supposed to be "don't get caught talking smack about your family or your dumb redneck dad will make an embarrassing youtube video." cause that's the only lesson i see this girl learning.

hmm, yes, i routinely use my gun/tool to help with activities such as opening beer cans, turning on the tv, or putting the fear of god into my dumb daughter.

so, he taught her a lesson about disrespecting someone on a public forum by... disrespecting her on a public forum. maybe next time she acts up he can stamp his feet, run up to his room, slam the door, play my chemical romance really loudly, and start screaming "I HATE YOU! IHATEYOUIHATEYOUIHATEYOU!" that'll learn her.

how dare these soulless, money grubbing corporations exploit our rich culture and make light of the constant struggle nerds like me face every day. this show is literally the holocaust.. BUT FOR NERDS!

ugh, please stop saying this man killed 255 people. these were obviously just savage musslemen, not people. tia

god bless our Troops and we will never forget the events of 9/11

edit: oops, i forgot to capitalize Troops. make sure you show the proper respect to our men and women in uniform :)

@Sunjammer: practically? a combat zone is probably not the best place for it.

if you want theory, because expressing sexuality seems to be exclusively assigned to female characters. in a vacuum, a woman character dressing up in a chain mail bikini because "damnit, i look good in this and it's my time to shine!" wouldn't be a big deal, but that's not how character design in the game industry works.

do you think that agent in syndicate (which, personally, i don't think looks that bad but w/e) was made that way because the designer thought that's how the character would express herself or because that's what they thought players would like to see? even if it did fit the character, it's not as if she just popped out of the aether. somebody at starbreeze had to come up with and develop "female agents that loves fighting and loves looking good while doing it" character. it's not as if this is based on real people and the story will just fall apart without "sexy cyberpunk agent". i suppose it comes down to whether or not you believe developers make characters like this due to a progressive, pro-sex feminist agenda or because "boobies look nice and gamers love boobies." frankly, i know what side i am leaning towards.

i look down on sexuality in my bideo games because often times it comes across as juvenile and exploitative in the vast majority of cases. i don't get the impression these characters are dress the way they are through some imagined sense of agency they possess. i get the impression that the designers want to look at pretty girls and think the player does too. to bring it to that girl in bioshock (another thing people are in a tizzy about, i guess i didn't get the memo), what does the corset add to the character or tell us about her? would we really lose anything if she didn't have it? she is designed like that to appeal to player, not because she thought a corset would look nice during her grand escape.

at best, sexuality in games is superfluous and adds nothing to the character or story, and, at worst, is actively exploitative and harmful. i don't see why it has to be there and i don't trust game designers to handle it in a mature and even-handed fashion.

tl;dr: i actually don't care about the character design in either syndicate or bioshock infinite because both those games are going to be boring and terrible and nobody is gonna read all these words anyways.

p.s. referring to critics as "white knight" that only argue this because they think it will get them laid is dumb as hell and only serves make gamers look like a bunch of babbys that would rather toss out ad hominems then actually scrutinize their childish hobby even just a little bit. cut it out. tia :)