LemonFrosted

This was what I came to ask, too.

Any updates on the re-acquisition of the System Shock trademark?

Barring the possibility that the SystemShock trademark will ever be back in the mix, would you consider setting a BioShock in the future, or do you see the primary role and themes being best utilized in fantastical version of history?

Do you feel confident that players will be able to slip into Booker's skin while playing? A few people have noted that they find it off-putting that he speaks so much, and certainly the level of meaty dialogue that we've seen is far above and beyond the Duke Nukem style one-liners that we've come to expect from our FPS avatars without switching between "game mode" first person and "story mode" 3rd person cut scenes. In that regard the merger here (especially when it comes to the intensity, eg. moments like Elizabeth taking his hand and putting it around her own neck) is quite novel.

Any advice on the subject of shallow graves?

both sexes fall in love with the members of the other sex who are the least capable of loving them

This is the single most bullshit thing I've read of yours, and it belies both your own personal damage, as well as an inability to even recognize the vast, vast wealth of contradictory evidence present in the literal millions of functional relationships that fail to conform with your paradigm.

Edit: this also entirely fails to account for homosexuals, bisexuals, or, really, anyone who doesn't conform with the Cosmo/Maxim axis of gender roles (which would be most people).

No one was doing anything wrong

Not entirely true.

No one was doing anything criminal (note, also, that Marital Rape wasn't recognized as a crime in many western nations until after no-fault divorces were legalized [the last US States criminalized marital rape in 1993], so a large swath of serious abuses weren't legal grounds for divorce prior to the passing of no-fault laws) or in overt violation of the marriage vows.

There's also the much more mundane litany of abuse/neglect/manipulation/exploitation that are certainly good reason to not want to be married to someone, but didn't meet the legal requirements for divorce prior to no-fault.

And there's just the pragmatic things-didn't-work-out failure rate that you'd expect to see in any endeavour as complex and demanding as marriage.

The massive surge represents a backlog of all of these things, marriages that had already failed years prior for a variety of reasons, but couldn't otherwise be dissolved.

This interpretation is supported by the steady decline in divorce rates since they peaked (in Canada, the USA, and the UK, at least) in the mid 90s. (The peak is believed to represent couples waiting for their youngest children to leave the home before getting a divorce, and thus follows the maturation of Gen X).