@Adavanter @ecs33 @MarioKingMario It isn't entirely silly when that one guy is the one in power, got there promising to change things, and all their colleagues and supporters call you racist if you point out the whole hypocrisy.

Sure, both parties are very problematic. But that's not an excuse to avoid calling things as they are NOW. MarioKingMario's assertion may be biased but it is grounded on facts - how many news we've seen in the last few years about taxing this, prohibiting that?

@Adavanter @fatee Because it was never Spring at all. More like Autumn Inferno. This is what the "revolutionaries" the West believe will "democratize" the region are actually doing:

(look for "15+ Cannibal Rebel Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier !" on YouTube)

@Cypress131 @sk8oridie44 Nailed it, my friend.

The only problem that behooves us to be more critical of the liberals/Democrats is that they're in power and tend to dress their policies with "righteousness". At least the Republicans are blunt and direct on *some* of the ideas they defend, such as the right to own guns or the like.

The worst form of dictatorship is the one where the dictator is completely convinced it's all for the good of the world.

@Thegamer16 Good luck trying to find countries with a different mentality, I've been researching this myself. All of Latin America and pretty much all of Europe is dominated by the same logic. The best bet is to look at the Index of Economic Liberty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom) and choose some place - note that the US is still in the Top 10, but it has fallen 2 or 3 positions in the last few years alone.

And before anyone jumps in and say "but economic liberty is not the same thing!" Yeah, it isn't, but one thing tends to lead to another. Australia used to be very strict about games, but after years of economic liberty, they're finally revising it and creating a 18+ category for games. In the meantime, while most of the US citizens are asking for more government regulation on the economy, games are being targeted again. It's not a coincidence. You want liberty, you need to find a place where there's *economic* liberty to begin with.

Australia, here I go!

@cagedwolf "Has anything ever that has paid a "tax penalty" ever been taken care of? Smoking, alcohol etc? Nope still going strong."

Worse yet, the more you tax, the bigger the "grey"/black market on these become. Don't be fooled, it's not a matter of ignorance, incompetence or trying to reach easy solutions: this outcome is EXACTLY what they want. They don't want to see the cigarette or alcohol industry die, they want to demonize it to squeeze as much money out of it as possible in all fronts (legal, illegal and everything inbetween).

If someone finds that eating tomato could give you cancer, in 10 years tomato would be in the same position as alcohol and smoking.

@caramel_cod Come again? The law that went on up to the Supreme Court was approved by Schwarza, but was written by a liberal/Democrat to begin with. As most of these laws tend to be. They are smart enough to find someone to be the public face of it and avoid association. But no one is more willing to regulate what you see, say, consume and use than a liberal/left-winger in the West these days.

Typical left-wing logic: everything is "solved" with more taxes.

After all, more taxes means more money for the big government, and it tends to create a "grey" (or even black) market that the fringe radicals can explore and the government can use as an excuse to raise public spending EVEN MORE.

As someone said, the art of selling solutions to problems that never existed.

@The3rdGracchus By "Crystal Dynamics" you mean "Silicon Knights", I suppose. And that'd be the wrong article, too.

@fadersdream @KillzoneSnake What about it? It has sold about the same as the Xbox so far.

@hazuki The best games I've played this year so far were DmC, Runner 2, Fire Emblem, Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, Guacamelee and Etrian Odyssey IV. I dare *anyone* to find more than two meaningful similarities between any combination of *two* of these games I mentioned (much less three or more games).

And we're not even talking 2011, that was an *amazing* year for quality and variety (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Catherine, Shadows of the Damned, Dark Souls, MK 9, Portal 2, El Shaddai, Driver: San Francisco, Outland, Iron Brigade, Witcher 2, Alice: Madness Returns, Bulletstorm, L.A. Noire, Ghost Trick, Stacking, Lost in Shadow, Terraria, Xenoblade Chronicles... And that's not mentioning the biggest triple-A sequels which still had plenty of quality, such as Batman: Arkham City, Resistance 3, Uncharted 3, Skyrim, Zelda: Skyward Sword, LittleBigPlanet 2...).

I also bet my entire game collection that Spector have not played most of the games I've mentioned. From 2013, maybe Tomb Raider and Bioshock. From 2011, who knows. I'm not even sure he had something to say about Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It's easy to be preachy when you distance yourself from anything but the things you want to bash. It's like those people who love to complain about Japanese games being all the same 'outdated sh*t' when they did not touch those that *were* different with a 10-foot pole even back when Final Fantasy was all the rage, much less today.

Not saying Spector is a bad guy, he has the best intentions in the world and it's good to see a developer speaking up against shooter clones. But he's clueless, too.