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Good god, some of you guys are insane. The story in MGS4 is a pile of steaming hot garbage, but I'm not going to continue to derail the thread.

The OP's point is that, barring some statistical anomaly, the evidence suggests that, for whatever reason, Gamespot is more likely to post 10s now than it had been in the past. There could be any number of reasons for that-- perhaps staff turnover, perhaps editorial pressure, or perhaps games are just better now than they're even been (I don't agree with that if it's their opinion).

Many of you seem oddly defensive about this, which I think is silly. OP simply said that there has been a change in philosophy. He didn't say (or even imply) that the change was a bad thing. Nor did he say that any of the new 10s were undeserving (on the contrary, his position could very well be that Gamespot should have been posting more 10s in the past).

Here's a gaming related one: Drives me nuts when someone summons me into their Dark Souls game and then stands around for 5 minutes waiting for a summon. I have beaten all of these bosses solo a million times. We don't need more help, and we certainly don't need to wait around for more help.

I feel like you will really only NEED to know about what happened in MGS3, Peace Walker, and Ground Zeroes to understand MGSV on a basic level. I suspect that MGS 2 and 4 are going to be pretty insignificant.

Obviously, it would be best to go through it all but that would be a ton of material to try to get caught up on in a week

When I lived in NYC, you could create an entire category of "general tourist behaviors" that annoyed the hell out of me. For example, all those people who walk around while looking straight up at the tops of the skyscrapers that are right next to them. Look where you are going, idiots! +10 if this was done during the morning commute or anywhere outside of midtown (aka. the asshole of the earth).

YES! That song fills me with complete and utter rage as well

I should add that it's the same person who asks the same question at the same time on literally every week day. Also, I only get annoyed because I haven't had coffee yet so I am a grouch. I literally started going to a different coffee shop because of this.

I mean, I was going out of my way to make it clear that I realize it's irrational, not asking for a lecture about I shouldn't let it bother me.

So Vinny, Alex, Austin, and Jeff spoke at length on the Beastcast this week about things that make them irrationally angry, and it got me thinking that I have a ton of these. This one might be the most irritational though (because I'm always exhausted when it happens):

It drives me insane when I go to Dunkin Donuts and I ask for a "medium coffee, black" and they ask me "hot or cold?" Goddamnit! Coffee is fucking hot unless people say otherwise. If I wanted an iced coffee, I would have asked for an iced coffee. What kind of asshole would order an iced coffee by asking for coffee? Fucking nobody, that's who.

What do you guys think? Any ridiculous pet peeves?

@drgreatjob said:

It turns out that @danryckert knows a thing or two about completely fucking yourself by aggroing him (hilarious)

http://www.gameinformer.com/themes/blogs/generic/post.aspx?WeblogApp=features&y=2011&m=10&d=14&WeblogPostName=intro-to-dark-souls&GroupKeys=

I think the reboot is my #2 favorite game of the year so far (behind Witcher 3) which is saying a lot because it has been a fantastic year