High school diploma, BA/MA/PHD technical certifications, wedding ring, etc. are all pretty much achievements.
Life is full of times when you get stupid pieces of paper or random objects that show that you've done something. Might be something useful/positive (PHD), negative (prison record), or only really of interest to you (photo of the person who had a summer fling with), but it's all the same thing. Video game achievements are just an attempt to replicate the "see, i did that!" aspect of real life - albeit in a way that stimulates people's competitiveness.

I've found about the same ratio to be true regarding TV content.

Entertainment produces happiness.

Can't somebody just patent the filing of stupid patents?

People build traffic lights that are designed to catch snow.

But wouldn't the Kindle have to actually be popular, rather than a niche toy, before it makes sense to refer to something else as a kindle-killer?

Flamethrower.

On one hand, I must applaud the integrity of a company that decides not to alter it's product to get around a stupid ban like this.

On the other hand, AvP is one of my least favorite franchises, and I wish it would just disappear and let us return to two totally seperate universes.

That pretty much reflects my experience getting a basic FTP running on ubuntu a few years back. Crappy documentation and self-riteous zealots forming too much of the existing userbase made the process a nightmare. The latter is also one of my biggest complaint about Macs.

He lives in a quasi-living time machine that always defaults to an old british police box in appearance, and turns into a different person whenever he dies, and you pick on his screwdriver?

Your suspension-of-disbelief needs some tuning.

They've pretty much always been shelved together, and right now fantasy sells much better than SF.

"more likely to play with dolls and tea sets and dress up in female clothes."

The toy/game/clothing preferences of children are culturally, not biologically, driven. Corolation != Causation.

As somebody who can see just fine, I want all videogames to come with subtitles... so that I never have to listen to any godawful american dubbing of otherwise awesome japanese games.

A person with a proven biological predisposition to murderous violence needs to be locked up for more time, not less.

Of course, the science probably doesn't actually support either response.

Mrs Frisby gives her whole-hearted aproval to this endeavor.