Slightly more objectionable that that it seems.

And they nearly took an actually good show with them in the process.

Agreed. Just like being a butcher, jailer or actor in Uwe Boll films, Hunting should be a job you hate and simply do it because someone has to (debatable on the latter) or are ordered to. Because taking pride and joy in any of these makes you a bad person by definition.

Don't forget that they also would have much more success if they weren't so console fixated, holding PC gamers back graphics-wise, while they also should go back to the roots because burger time and infocom adventures were the pinnacle of gaming and almost all indi-games are way superior to any big production.

Furries. They're everywhere.

Most marriages or even normal relationships wouldn't survive if sex was only ever had with "enthusiastic consent". Oh, and there are situations where both are unenthusiastic (yes, that happens!), or I am unenthusiastic at first as a man, but the girl is persisting. Neither one have I ever really regretted. Oh, and there is absolutely no way I know to turn a woman off faster than asking every step of the way if you really can do that. May try that next time when I'm not that enthusiastic. "I'm tired of the phrase enthusiastic consent" - Benjamin Franklin

Most slashdot geeks say they're non-religious, though they still have the urge to believe in a greater entity that is "good" without any doubt. Currently it's google, and like most religious people, they will defend their deity even against their own beliefs and technical knowledge. Would you believe anyone would have modded this post flamebait if the story was about MS doing the same thing? Or any other company, for that matter?

And is the grid disrupting wind power surges everywhere else?

Unlike leaderboards for multiplayer games, I can't really see how one could get competitive over gamerscores/achievements (if you're over, say, 20). If anything, I would try to hide it if I had a large number of points since it more or less directly translates to how much time i spend sitting in front of my TV, playing / grinding games.

Despite having a slight OCD when it comes to single player RPGs, I never considered achievements important enough to be driven by it. For example, I enjoyed doing all of the optional missions in Final Fantasy XIII, but never cared to 5 star all of them for an achievement, since, well, dead is dead.

And I never played a game where achievements where more than a slight extension, never the driving force behind gameplay. Really, never (I'm talking single player games only).

The Alan Wake achievement was generally considered shitty, but that's the exception.

I don't play MMOs or even multiplayer games and really don't know or care how much my score is total or in individual games.
I can understand that it can be annoying there, though.

Actually, it'd be cool if the insulted player got the achievements ("1000 fathers", "well dressed").

Im not sure how achievements can actually irritate someone - can't you just ignore them? The only thing I could think of is that it disturbs your immersion in the game a little when it pops up, though it never bothered me.

There are many things going for achievements, even if you don't care (or track) how high your total is.

• They are often funny and self-referential ("press start to play" achievement for 5g in the simpsons game comes to mind).
• They're great for people who like to grind or just like the gameplay of a specific game and need an excuse to play it even after they've played it to death.
• I feel silly making a list of pros of that unimportant a thing, but i wanted to complete the 3 point list for the "Defended XBOX achievements on slashdot using a 3 point list" achievement.

Interesting facts: Chrono trigger cost 80 bucks in 1995 in the US (http://www.fantasyanime.com/squaresoft/ctabout.htm). And it took just 3 years for (at least) 30 devs to finish it (according to wikipedia, "Kato and other developers held a series of meetings to ensure continuity, usually attended by around 30 personnel").

Picking your comment to reply to more or less randomly.
- You can look at a house or make a photo of it. You can overhear a conversation. You're also not a massive database that lives on making everything they get searchable.
- People are not stupid because they dont know about router security. They know that they can access the internet if they connect those boxes to their phone line. You overestimate most peoples basic understanding of what the internet is
- In restrictive, fascist germany the Ministry of justice (or websites in general) is not allowed to store the IP Adresses of the visitors of it's website. I have absolutely no idea why they let google get away with storing them for SIX MONTHS so far.
- Yes, i used google translator for that link :)