Nariko and her sister in Heavenly Sword (both are playable characters).

There were also female lead characters in WET and Heavy Rain but can't remember their names off the top of my head, but yes they tend to be very much in the minority, probably because of the belief that men don't want to play as female characters.

It's really strange this whole "you can't get things done on Linux" meme as a kind of badge of honour in favour of using a proprietary platform. I don't see a problem with people using Mac or Windows, I mean most people do, it's not something you need to justify. I've been a long term Linux user simply because I prefer it, and tend to use it just as a user. Or in other words Web Browsing, some light Java development, occasional office style stuff (word processing, editing spreadsheets), image editing and photography, a bit of gaming though tend to use the PS3 for that. It's just a day to day family machine and I simply don't have time to do lots of maintenance. So need something that "Just Works", imagine that.

So yes, I don't edit video, but then I've never had interest in editing video. Nor am I trying to start a band. We have Windows 7 at work, and while I can tolerate it there are lots of aspects that are just plain irritating so I wouldn't use it at home.

You say this, but I never really saw anything like Journey, Flower or Unfinished Swan on the Wii. They've always seemed happier creating lots of versions of their classic line-up, and for a lot of people that seems enough.

My keyboard has a penguin key instead of those wonky squares.

I'm using GNOME3 right now and my applications are right here in front of me and the DE is out of my way. How does that make them impossible to get to again? I'm seeing less DE chrome than I used to with GNOME2.

Legally binding someone to vote in a particular way? How could that possibly go wrong...

And unless you give presidential powers to freely implement policies based on these petitions, you still have the congress and the senate. So which incumbent?

How's this for a prototype? http://www.e-architect.co.uk/liverpool/james_may_meccano_bridge.htm

It's pretty fundamental to the concept of ecosystems, as well as lots of other elements of biology. I'd have to turn that question around though and ask why you'd possibly want to leave out such an important theory from the last century or so of biology?

But you'd also have to go through a few contortions not to mention evolution in a biology course, treating it a bit like the elephant in the room. The students are bound to bring it up at some point anyway, even if you don't do it as a controlled part of the curriculum.

There are plenty of good kids games with local multiplayer and not many of them are split screen, separate consoles looks that element of all huddling around together to play. There are tons of really good cheap ones on PSN as well. I've got two kids, aged nine and six, and there are loads of games they like on there.

But does it do OpenDocument and Impress files correctly? I see this a lot, people don't actually want Word Processing software, what they actually want is Word Document Processing software. So the native well supported formats are ignored in favour of the defacto standard.

It's not surprising, but if you want to do the switch you really have to go the whole hog. You can accept Word documents with caveats but have to make clear that your supported format is OpenDocument and encourage it's use. You could easy provide links to the implementations and say they're obtainable for free, much like we used to link to Adobe Acrobat when PDF documents were first used.

I see office documents as a barrier to progress. People will throw a form in word or excel format to their users, both of which have atrociousness usability, rather than putting up a clean and simple web form. It's a symptom of laziness and the whole "I'm really familiar with this so I use it for everything syndrome". It is nice in a way though, the ability to edit documents you have to sign or add new clauses can be advantageous :-)

I use OpenOffice for Word Processing (but Gnumeric for Spreadsheets) but if I'm going to share documents I'll normally do it in PDF. If a preferred format is specified i.e. Word or RTF, I'll generally send the OpenOffice file as well, but I don't like sending editable documents unless they're likely to be edited.

After 15+ years Linux usage I'm sticking with GNOME3 because I also want things to just work, and it gives me what I want, a clean desktop which stays out of my way most of the time. I simply did the GNOME2 to GNOME3 transition without stopping at Unity in between.

If I didn't like GNOME3 then there are so many alternatives that are simply an apt-get install away that I simply can't understand all the whining. I'd likely go back to WindowMaker or fluxbox.

I've used GNOME3 on Ubuntu for a few releases now, you just need install the gnome-shell package, and I much prefer it to Unity.

I did hit a user switching issue with 12.10, but that has been resolved by swapping lightdm to gdm, and it might just have been something with my setup. I haven't tried the new Ubuntu GNOME version yet.

Does that mean that chinese executions + chinese prisoners > us executions + us prisoners?

I find it slightly annoying but have got used to seeing it now, much like people who manage to "loose" things under the sofa, it's just one of those Americanisms you gradually get used it.