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 I'm clinically "mentally ill" but violent videogames never turned me into a killer. I thought reading that may help lay some stereotypes to rest for the rest of you.

 What's odd in my experience is "over counter pharmaceuticals" like depakote,paxil,eskalith,lithium,and geodon impaired my judgement and made me more violent and manic. Moral of the story? Be careful with drug cocktails,kids! Even "legal medications" can mess you up!

 After experimenting with "mental health drugs" I went back to my oath of being straight edge and solving my problems the old fashioned way. (Y'know, by admitting to them and working on solutions other than drowning myself in a bunch of pills) Needless to say, both my physical and emotional well being improved after that!

 As for Kotaku, don't get me started. Jezebel is just as bad if not worse. Not all fringes of feminism are gawd awful but there are a lot of "pseudo white knight sensationalist writers" who flaunt their feminism and like it's a trend in style. I can taste the stomach bile in my mouth just thinking about it!

I prefer funny trolls. In this case it's either a homicidal misogynistic lunatic or an unfunny troll. Boo!

I played some of Witcher II on my pc but after a certain point my specs just couldn't handle that beast! I'll be buying it again soon for the 360.

Glad you found your copy of Donkey Kong 64! Er,don't get consumed by The Great Heap! It happened to me once and I was forced to fight dust bunnies with nothing more than a dust pan and a fox tail. Most harrowing journey ever,man!

The song "Empty Handed" resonates with me a lot. My income level is why I've always been afraid to start up a family. I don't want my potential children to suffer and barely scrape by as I've had to do. I know we like to say "adversity builds character" but we also want the best for those we love too!

I like the idea of taking their women off their hands to live in the west. lol. This is one instance where I wouldn't mind a little feminism sneaking in & thriving in third world countries.

  I understand being frustrated with women on occasion or even having a serious problem with some of them but this guy really is completely nuts. The fact is men cannot exist without women. Though radicals from both sexes may not love it, we rely on each other for the survival of our species so we might as well make the best of it.

  Yeah,maybe he's just a troll but even as a joke what he wrote wasn't funny. I grimaced reading every word. This "bro" needs serious help! (And yes,plenty of kicks to the balls so he doesn't breed!)

  It's a shame because guys like this give good Muslims a bad name. (And the media uses statements like these to fuel our own misguided broad generalization propaganda over here.)

Castlevania always had great music. That tends to be a staple of all of Konami's franchises. Nice remixes here!

Geh, I still need to get the MGS collection but both Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge and Resident Evil Revelations are coming up and they'll probably take priority. In some alternate reality I just know I have more money! Must be a blast for other-me!

Shovel Knight for the win,Jesse!

I think "videogames" are in their infancy compared to other entertainment mediums and when you consider that, they're growing up at a healthy rate! This may not have been game advertising's finer collective moment but I don't think it'll do much damage in the long run,Angelo.

Personally I'm over my "collector's edition phase". It's easy to find space for another game but harder to fine spaces for other junk like action figures,replica guns, and mutilated torsos. As a guy living in an apartment, I just don't have that kind of floor room!

Though I wish this did not happen (thus giving ammo to the controversy addicted "schlock jocks" of our community) I don't think it's worse than slasher exploitation films and for some odd reason they get less flak than video games despite often being more deranged.

PS: My condolences the response is late but in general I try to reply to people if they reply to me! (Even if I have to comb their blog page for a couple interesting back logs!)

PPS: Sorry your wife got flak for finding this "discomforting". That wasn't a good reason for certain people to blitz out on her in my opinion. I can actually understand why such nasty "in your face gore" isn't appealing to everyone. Again, I'm not a huge fan of most popular slasher films.