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Opinions aren't always bad but when its the guys talking about it you know that its not too serious and mostly just mockery or fun things here and there. When Patrick did it, you knew it was idealism and dogma which was totally serious, saying "there should be more female protagonists" is not funny, its not mockery... its just political dogma.

Honestly I would have less of an issue with it if the writer just said something like this: "I don't know about you duders, but the last couple of games i've been playing have been a bit of sausage fest, I would welcome some more playable girls", still sends the same message but isn't shoving it down your throat as how thing "should be" or some high and mighty morality. Make it PERSONAL/Witty/Funny/Banter not political.

There is a magnitude of difference between these two ways of giving your opinion.

@tennmuerti: @konig_kei: On bribe, last time I tried it was about a year ago but the way I remember it was that you stack it and get an insta kill on ONE minion. This is generally insufficient for you to overpower the elite mobs, so you still need your teammates, which if they were with you to begin with then there's no point in the Bribe(alright it saves you like 10 seconds of creeping).

Dno if hero skills count as strategy but here go my frustrations:

I'm personally finding some of the hero choices kind of obsolete, yesterday I played Kerrigan and Azmodan and like 90% of the choices are kind of dumb, I mean why choose the mercenary option(bribe?) if you still can't solo elite camps until super late game. Did anyone find the bribe skill useful? is it like a group thing? where everybody gets it together so you can get creeps really quick?

On Kerrigan why choose the attack damage feats when its like a lot less useful than the skills and will almost never catch up to them in burst damage(Kerrigan), it even seems silly to choose the damage per kill option for her without locking yourself into all of the attack feats because they all synergize rather well.

The Azmodan choices also seem kind of dumb, like the fire orb choice in the beginning, either do 50% more damage or get more damage every time you achieve a kill... well to achieve the same kind of damage as the 50% you need like 200 last hits... which would only happen in like 10% of games you play(and you can't know until you've played them).

I think for video games(strictly discussing mechanics or graphics) its fine because people who play and think a lot about video games are probably as adept as the next guy.The issue is when it comes to policy changes(steam or ubisoft), evaluating whether paid mods are good or bad(for modding) is WAY beyond the domain of journalists, though they are as well positioned as anyone to say what the community will likely make of it.

Honestly even outside the video game domain, apart from reading for entertainment and pure information, I don't ever read opinions from journalists. I mean half of America would see Jon Stewart an intellectual... but these people don't know how to think, they have no training on seeing the bigger picture. Jon Stewart is indeed an expert on media after all this time but media is the medium not the message. Similarly, Patrick has no understanding of the things outside of video games he discussed. The deeper you go into development process the less of a journalist the reporter should be.

To me its clearly an abuse of power to have journalists give their opinions(and persuade dumb people), we go in there for the news/reporting and get things filtered through their lens. Personally i'm an economist/statistician and I can tell you I am annoyed every time I hear a non-economist journalist talk about fiscal/monetary policy, subsidies of any kind, changes in market structure, Global Warming(stats), Genetically Modified Organisms(stats) etc. Whenever I hear somebody even mention the word "science" I brace myself for a mis-characterization of what science is or does. I do think this is especially bad with economics because it affects everybody on a very transparent and relate-able level and so everybody wants to have an opinion. To me its clear, opinions for anything remotely complicated(which almost everything in the real world is) must come from technical people, I don't even trust journalists to read abstracts of papers and then infer from them, they are too incompetent to do that, they should just let the technical people read it and ask them what to write about it.

note: Yes economists disagree quite a bit on issues but when you hear them talking about it, even if it sounds similar to non-economists, I promise you there are VOLUMES of very technical research both theoretical and empirical that are going into their opinions.

Not that bad but the T-Rex is kind of overshadowed so its not very cool.

@tjmasterk: Vinny is small? What? This is news to me.

Great posted duder... I am a bit confused as to why Vinny is depicted in this way though...