Quest bugs can be forgiven I think. A complex quest will have lots of scripting and all it takes is for a dev to miss a trigger or a player to do something unexpected and the quest is broken.

Less forgivable are the engine crashes. These really need to be caught, especially in an RPG where you can lose many hours of gameplay.

And to pour a little cold water on the "at least they will patch it" argument - patches and DLC for Fallout 3 seemed to add as many bugs as they fixed. Certainly on the PS3 the GOTY edition was extremely bugged, and with bugs not common to the original.

What a load of BS. Pure PR fluff, regurgitated whole by the BBC. A totally nonsense survey, with the sole aim of getting "Rescue Time" some publicity.

Haha, thanks for the belly laugh. "Afuck" is my new favourite word.

Case in point: Compare and contrast Dante's Inferno and God of War. The former is the most blatant rip-off of a game I have seen in modern times.

Freedom of speech is one thing, it's fine for anyone to stand on a soapbox in the park and rant about immigration or the death penalty, or whatever floats their boat. But it doesn't follow they should be allowed a slot on prime-time news TV to express the same opinions.

News is supposed to be balanced and fair, and randomly selecting opinions could lead to very skewed coverage (or worse, purposely only selecting opinions that agree with a particualr agenda).

To be fair, the BBC are prime offenders at this vox populi crap too. Quite apart from the prime idiocy on display on their "Have Your Say" comments pages, they practically plead for viewers to text or email their views which they then proceed to display and read out live on air. Obivously this is driven by their need for content, any content to fill airtime on their 24-hour news channel, but it is ridiculous that they stoop to parroting some randomly selected half-wit's opinion on complex issues.

For your example to work, you have to take as read the assumption sex is somehow inherently bad! That assumption is the product of the archaic society you describe. The free love society would see no problems.

BTW, how can I join this free-love society? ;-)

Nope. I guess the combination of touch screen and dual screens makes that one a tough nut to crack!

Well, the DS has it too, you just close the clamshell.

I totally agree with the article about the lack of backlight on the GBA. It was invisible unless you were in very bright light - if there was no sunshine, you had to somehow angle yourself directly under a lamp, merely being in a lit room was not enough. And then the irony of the DS Phat screen, where they made the exact opposite mistake - you can hardly see it in anything but pitch darkness! You just sit there squinting at the reflection of your sad little face staring back at you - in two screens at once, for added insult.

I think we are actually in agreement here. I was saying that there is no point saying the universe would be better off without us ruining it, because the only entities we are ruining it for is ourselves - making it a circular argument.