Grey Acumen

and Smash Bros Brawl, and Okami, and Metroid Prime Trilogy, and Mario Kart Wii, and Twilight Princess, and Zack and Wiki, and No More Heroes, and Rock Band, etc.

@Dadito & Potato

You raise good points. If we're going to use this logic that video games affect how kids view reality then wouldn't it actually be more dangerous to NOT allow these actions? It would make these kids think that they could go out to war and shoot at mosks and churches without haven't to worry about damaging them at all.

@ Jimmy Mack:
You wouldn't SAY you're an Atheist, but we but we all know that doesn't mean anything.

There's a difference between trusting Valve personally and trusting Valve from a business standpoint. It's easy to get confused by that concept and even easier to get that concept confused when someone who knows it inherently tries to explain it to someone who doesn't know it at all.

To sum it up simply. you can trust that as long as nothing ever changes about Valve, that you will never have to worry about that business model being abused.
If it was me trusting another individual, that would be perfect. An individual can easily maintain specific things that are integral to their identity, and if anything does change, it will usually be apparent to those that know them well.
That is not true for a corporation. By definition, there will be people who come and go and get promoted or demoted, hired, fired, transferred, etc. A corporation will ALWAYS change, and often not in ways that are immediately obvious. If you have a good strong leader with a clear vision, those changes are often for the better, but no leader is infallible, nor can even the best leader have absolute control over all aspects of a company.
So practically by definition, you CANNOT trust that nothing will EVER change about Valve.

where are the politics? I remember the original statement, and he never at any point stated that he didn't like anything that Valve was doing.

He simply stated that there is a conflict of interest in Steam being run directly by Valve when it is responsible for distributing the digital software of companies that are in direct or indirect competition with Valve. AND IT IS.

Valve may be handling things appropriately, and there may not even be the slightest intention of Valve ever doing anything inappropriate, but you can't just take that for granted when money and jobs are on the line.

Think about it this way: Look what happened to Disney when Walt Disney died. Same thing can happen when Gabe inevitably dies. (fat jokes aside, he is not at a healthy weight, and that is going to do him in eventually) Hate to break it to people, but 90% of the time, when the primary founder/figurehead of a company dies, the magic goes with it and it's a struggle for that company to even retain any of what made it special to begin with.

actually, there is a double fail to his explanation. not only does the sensor bar not do the actual sensing, but the ir cameras are not at all used to track the motion used in the tennis game. That particular action is tracked by the accelerometers.

there's also the fact that he used the word "need" to describe the level of importance the various attachments have to your playing experience, but it's not like he gets to decide what crappy products he has to push so blatant bullshit is understandable.

yes they are

Morgan Freeman

It looks great, but I wish they had a DS homebrew version.

I'm going to put my point of view in this, whether anyone cares or not.

Of course it's an issue if he's fat, and no, it should not be freaking encouraged. It's one thing to be overweight, it's an entirely different matter to be as overweight as he is. It's NOT HEALTHY.

The ones who like his games should be riding him the hardest on this fact. You think everything is going to go on completely unchanged when he dies of a massive myocardial infarction?

Seriously, he's got the money, start spending some of it on diet versions of whatever the heck he eats and a gym membership or something. Give his pep speeches while working on a treadmill or something.

100 years ago it might have been a sign of wealth to be fat, because people couldn't afford to eat PERIOD. Once mcdonalds opened, being fat just became a sign that you don't know how to shop for healthy food. Being PHYSICALLY FIT is a sign of wealth now because it means you have enough money to eat HEALTHY.