Well at a certain point it's just not feasible to continue to search regardless of the quota. Besides, if the claim is obscure that's all they're getting legal coverage for anyway.

Because this game comes out soon. Just wait for the next GTA game to near release and you'll hear all about it again.

I read a story about a (probably fake) former boss who, upon receiving a stack of applications for a job position, immediately threw half of them in the trash saying, "I don't want to hire anyone who is unlucky."

Moreover, I don't think you should have to separate the elements of the game from the game itself to consider it art. Do we consider only the writing that goes into a movie to be art? The music? The moving pictures? It's ridiculous that because games have an element of interactivity, that you control some nontrivial part of the experience, that the work suddenly loses status.

I see your point, but I think that is just allowing the argument to be shifted to an area you can't win. If someone says anything less than an arbitrary amount of quality isn't art, then that becomes a statement you can't refute because that line is unable to be clearly defined. Ebert said in no uncertain terms that video games cannot be considered art, that we can debate (well, not with Ebert himself because he seems absolutely unwilling to consider anything other than his own nascent view of games). The guy in TFA is just being apologetic.

No painting has ever touched my soul (whatever that means), so I guess those are out as well?

So in your view, art is dead?

It sounds to me like you agree with GP but you don't know it. What you're saying is the games (or more specifically, genres) you like are more worthy of being discussed as art, but the games you don't think have a deep enough story for you aren't.

Pertinent: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/11/

I don't get how your calculations assume your brain is firing every possible interconnection of neurons at all times 24 hours a day. Moreover, it's unclear what either the Ars article and the pdf you linked define as an "operation" in the brain, and a bit silly to compare 1 such operation directly to a clock cycle.

But it spawned a pretty solid soundtrack.

I actually thought the ending was better in the movie. It was more cohesive and intelligent, following more from the events in the story, and less deus ex machina or where-the-hell-did-that-come-from. And really, there isn't much left in Dr. Manhattan by the end that could be considered "man"

If Watchmen is predictable and dull, what movies are you watching that are refreshingly insightful?

But they know who Osama bin Laden is. They know we've been on a tear invading countries in the last decade. A teenager with any knowledge of world events should be able to draw many pertinent themes out of the ideas presented in Watchmen.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Citation strongly needed here.