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So once (if) the server issues get worked out, is Polygon going to raise its score?

That just seems weird to me. I understand what they are trying to do, I guess, they want to give the most accurate score that they see fit of a game, at a given time. But where does it start and stop? Shouldn't they update every game's scores whenever any kind of patch or change is made to a game?

It just comes off as looking kind of shoddy, like "oops we reviewed this game too early" or "oops we can't make up our mind", especially when they present the history of changing scores for a single game.

Women are constantly objectified in video games. It is a sad state, but sex sells. They are targeting young males, teen-aged, who haven't had meaningful relationships with women in their lives, and think about sex all day. Actually - I don't know who they are targeting. The more I think about it - even in my younger years, I can't say that I ever thought that it would have been cool to have a headless statue of a woman. Maybe a statue of a woman, with a head. I remember as a young boy being fascinated with looking down the shirts of female mannequins at clothing stores. I probably would have thought that having my own mannequin would have been cool - maybe? I don't even know. This is stupid. The important thing to take away form this is that not everyone lives in San Francisco or other progressive cities where equality is at the forefront of society. Many people live in communities that accept and even embrace racism, sexism, etc. And this shit will sell. I'm sure there are people out there that think this is the coolest game collectible ever. If nothing else, it is worth collecting to remind ourselves of the mistakes that the gaming industry made.

I think the most interesting thing I took away from this article is a lot of the women pointing out the anatomical incorrect-ness of the statue. As if the image of a mutilated, decapitated female torso wasn't bad enough, Deep Silver, you didn't even give her realistic boobs!

It would be great if Microsoft cleaned up their Indie service and turned it into something worth looking at on a regular basis.

I think people are getting a little off course talking feminism and the objectifying of women.

The point that, I think Patrick is trying to make, is that these booth babes are representing a company or product that they don't know much about in many cases. The problem that he is pointing out is not necessarily that they are scantily-clad, but that they are poorly representing, directly and indirectly, the products, and in some cases even distracting from the product.

They call me White Chocolate

Is Giant Bomb for sure going to PAX East?

I'm just about to book my flight and everything, this will be my first PAX.

Any advice on hotels / transportation / night life etc.?

I didn't see the show. I have no interest in award shows and don't feel that the Spike VGAs is all that exciting - even as a guy who plays a lot of games. So, who cares about this show? Not guys like me. The announcements are nice I guess, but not enough to make me want to tune in. I can read that from a twitter feed or on GB the day after.

So who does this show appeal to? Who should it appeal to? "Casual" gamers is my best guess. Because like Jeff pointed out, I can get all the behind the scenes insight from developers from trade shows and sites like GB. And industry awards? Do those matter to anyone anyways? Other than developers and publishers who can put that on their game box? I enjoy Giant Bomb's GOTY awards, but that's because I know all the guys who run GB on a somewhat personal level, and still the GOTY awards are more entertaining than really meaningful to me.

So I guess my question is why do you care that this show doesn't appeal to you? Why do you think it needs to be better?

I'm asking earnestly here, I really don't know. Were the shows ratings really bad? You're clearly not the audience for this show. Do you think it should appeal to you more? Wouldn't that alienate the casual audience? Or do you think they could have it both ways?

I think this game is bad and you should feel bad.

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