That may be a little bit true. Religious nutjobs have condemned them in the past.
Although, in my limited experience, religious nutjobs aren't major consumers of computer games, or mass media in general for that matter. They tend to shut the world out so they can more completely indoctrinate their young and maintain their cognitive dissonance.
To be clear, I am speaking only of the nutjobs, not people of faith as a whole.
they refuse to stop players from making gay characters in games.
You can make them, just as long as no one else ever has to see it. It's the worst kind of lie - they can claim to support LGBT while still forcing members of that community to stay in the closet.
Quite despicable, in my opinion.
Speak for yourself...
If you're uncomfortable please continue posting as AC, but I'm sincerely interested to know if this is just a drive-by troll or if you really made a decision not to buy EA products because of their LGBT handwaving, and why.
BoA didn't try to blame their poor reputation on homophobes.
No, they blamed it on poor people.
I appreciate (and to a degree share) your anger, but I think you vastly underestimate the power and influence of digital entertainment now and over the next few decades at least.
It kinda makes you the product, though...
Brilliant and horrifying.
+1, bleak reality
As for HFCS, it's mostly found in junk food
You are gravely mistaken, at least in the US. HFCS is found in very nearly every product I can put my hands on in the local supermarket including pickles, yogurt and ham (all the ones that don't have it contain some other form of either corn or soy.)
They also sell new indie games for small/individual developers, totally bypassing the corporate structure of publishing (with its attendant CEO salaries and censorship).
GOG is doing it right, right now.
It's like spam- 99% of us hate it, but the other 1% keep it going financially.
So we made laws and international treaties to curtail the predatory practice.
Just saying.
No only that, but it seems like everyone is either selling their company to them or working for them. I realize that companies go under and people need work, but if they end up owning all the decent IP, there is going to be nowhere else to turn BUT to buy from EA.
There are thousands of indie devs in garages as we speak working on their first games with remarkable (free!) tools like Unity3D. The market is shifting back away from corporations, just like direct-sale music and local bands are starving the "music" industry. In the end, people who care will make excellent products, sell them for less, and keep a vastly larger share of the profit.
Have your Fionna and Cake and eat it too! (Er... but not in a creepy way.)
These are the same people who compared VCRs to the Boston Strangler. Why be surprised that they don't like TiVo?
As everyone knows, skipping commercials is un-American and no different from terrorism.
Eyelid tape and saline drip sold separately.
It is unwatchable unless your brain is so used to being soaked in endorphins from neuromarketing tactics that it starts to shut down conscious thought.
The Super Bowl glorifies a sport that has been causing massive brain injuries in kids and adults alike for decades. If blood sports are what you consider appropriate but a human breast is out of bounds...
I don't know how to finish that thought, because it hurts my brain too much.
That, plus precious little Bobby and Suzie spend all of their time on 4chan and have seen more horrifying things than their parents even knew existed. And laughed over it.
Honestly, if my siblings knew the shit my nieces and nephews see online the kids would never see the light of day again. Being an uncle is awesome.
we could reallocate all that useful TV bandwidth to something useful.
Ooh! Ooh!
Free high speed internet?
Naah...it would never catch on...
Yeah, that's crazy. Consumers wouldn't go for it.
How about unreasonably expensive high speed internet? This is something the public has been demanding!
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
