Are you sure it was a heart attack? The tweet makes it seem something less serious. Still, anything to do with the heart is serious, and he's right - it's never too early to care about our heart and adopt a healthy lifestyle. Even if you're already healthy, eating right and exercising is a preventative measure to make sure you stay that way.

Good luck Kevin.

Nah, I think things like youtube have made game reviewing and news etc open to everybody anyway, so I don't even know what future there is for game news sites like gamespot.

I remember a few years ago seeing an advert for a summer internship at gamespot uk, I contemplated applying since I was free that summer and lived not far from their offices anyway. But it was unpaid (aside from necessary expenses being covered) - so I didn't consider it. Looking back though it might have been interesting and kind of fun to see the inside of a game publication's offices. Or at least I would probably have gotten some free game-related tat out of it.

I think diversity of culture (or more specifically diversity of opinion/viewpoint) can be useful. For example, many gamers enjoy japanese games but western reviewers aren't likely to understand them as well as the players if they've not much familiarity or appreciation for what's popular among japanese audiences. Culture and race are often linked so a culturally diverse team would probably be racially diverse too (eg, the best person to review japanese games might be someone who is actually from japan and is very familiar with the themes of its games). However that's not always the case, and if the review team is made up of people of different races who all think and act the same then I don't think there's much benefit to that beyond the superficial.

I don't think being gay is anything to be proud of, it's just how people are, just like being straight. So I think gay pride events aren't so much saying "I'm proud to be gay" as they are saying "I'm proud to be myself in the face of hatred and persecution". Same with lots of other 'pride' movements. There's no such thing as straight pride because there's no need for it, and hopefully one day in the future gay pride will be redundant too.

The bigger problem is that the meat wasn't frozen in transit so was defrosted and refrozen several times. If that's the case then god knows how many times it's been refrozen over the past 40 years...

I think "trigger warnings" are taken too far by people who are uncomfortable with hearing things they don't like or may upset them, and there is a danger that they will only encourage people to further retreat into their shell rather than face differing views and develop their ability to handle them.

In this case though, I sympathise with the student and I don't think this is a frivolous demand for trigger warnings as I described above. It's common knowledge that soldiers who suffer from PTSD can have flashbacks and aggressive reactions set off by innocuous things like a balloon suddenly bursting. These aren't things they can control easily, and aren't the product of conscious thought. Sexual assault also gives people traumatic experiences that can cause these reacitons. I don't think it would have been unreasonable at all for the lecturer to give some forewarning of the content so that students likely to be set off by it could excuse themselves.

What do frat houses even exist for? They sound like drinking clubs to me

I had just finished getting angry about that disgusting Boston piece and I go and see it again :( I don't know whether you're calling Boston horrible people or if you're endorsing the piece, but I think it's an utterly vile piece of journalism. Some reading to start with would be Eron's response (Part 1, Part 2), which shed light on how deceitful and manipulative the guy who wrote the Boston piece has been.

The story of Eron and Zoe has progressed and largely diverged from gamergate (such that Zoe is rarely mentioned by the latter group and some gamergaters refuse to donate to Eron's legal fund because they don't see it as relevant), and the whole story is a great demonstration of how terrible the media and courts can be. I don't care strongly about game journalists, but I'm very incensed by the media's refusal to acknowledge Eron's initial post about Zoe as one long accusation of her being an abuser (something many other survivors of abusive relationships have agreed with), or to separate him from the harassment committed by others (I've seen no compelling evidence of him encouraging this, in fact he edited his post to tell them to knock it off). Now he's been placed under an overly restrictive gag order that prevents him from saying a word about his abusive relationship such that he cannot even defend himself, and wasn't allowed to say a word in his own defence in court. He's been screwed over to no end, luckily he's found a lawyer now to help him appeal the gag order. Nonetheless, I think there's a good chance he's done a fair few bad things himself, though even so that Boston piece is horrifyingly one-sided and doesn't mention a word of the allegations against Zoe of being an abuser.

Very shocked that the conservatives got a majority government, as everyone was so sure this was going to be a close vote.
Things I'm not happy about:
-Cameron getting a majority, I don't mind the conservative party so much, but cameron himself is an awful leader who has made a lot of stupid moves in the last 5 years (such as his handling of the scottish independence referendum and pushing for his stupid English votes for English laws idea). Him and his allies in the party have been pushing for things that threaten our civil liberties, a stark contrast to his fairly liberal appearance before he became PM.

-The complete collapse of the lib dems - they were bound to suffer and deservedly so given how many people are pissed off with them, but some good MPs lost their seats when I don't think they deserved to.

-The SNP sweeping the board in Scotland. Though their widespread appeal stems mainly from the fact that they've governed capably and filled the centre left void labour have vacated, the fact that they got nearly every seat in Scotland when only 50% of voters voted for them is probably the biggest cock-up of our voting system in this election. That the 50% of Scottish voters who did not vote for the SNP can only choose from three MPs to represent their views is not healthy.

On the plus side:

-Trident is sure to be renewed, putting the issue to bed for the forseeable future. Though I'm in favour of keeping it, I'm open minded to arguments for getting rid of it. However, nobody has made any well thought out arguments for scrapping it. All of the arguments I've heard have been very short-sighted and failed to fully consider the consequences of removing it.

-There will be an EU referendum and I don't think it's likely people will vote to leave the EU, also hopefully putting the issue to bed for the forseeable future.

-The leaders of Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP have all resigned paving the way for new competent people to take their place, hopefully those untainted by scandal. I'm hoping for Dan Jarvis or Andy Burnham to lead Labour and maybe Douglas Carswell to step up for UKIP. Tim Farron might be a good choice for LD leader.

-A lot of people are unhappy with the unfairness of the voting system. UKIP and the Green party massively suffered under it, and the SNP massively benefitted - all three of these parties support voting reform and one now has a sizeable bloc in parliament. Hopefully this will lead to a greater push for reform.

That the reviewer is someone who at least likes what the game is supposed to be about, so they don't criticise the game for what they perceive to be flaws when really it's just a game not suited to what they want to play. I'm not a fan of sport games and if I reviewed fifa then I'd probably complain about how boring it is. Far better to have someone who actually likes football games review it.