Recent content by 5mj7R7yf4Dwr3gdZyyu9PeGNwYjlNrjzuh3iTXQG

It's odd seeing those statements together non-ironically. Most feminism is about equality, but like any other major social equality movement it features a wide range of sub-divisions in which opinions differ regarding either approach or intended outcome, or the rate at which change is...

Um...maybe? This happens when I have multiple conversations at once....and too little coffee. 238U

I wonder if you see the irony of accusing me of this: And in the same sentence deciding this: My point was that "forgiving Japan for being bigots" on the grounds that it's Japan is, itself, bigoted. It would be like saying we should forgive the US for hating black people because...

Actually while the gender ratio in development is far from equal, female participation in development is significant. (I think about 30% but I'm too lazy to look it up right now). Certainly much better than NASA during the moon shots (about 5%). But women are not typically being put into...

My satire is falling flat. But also I conflated stereotypes. The one I used was from the '50s through '70s black men were (often falsely) accused of raping white women. We'd learn from statistical analysis in the nineties that rapes were usually by people familiar to the victim, and more...

Political Correctness Gone Mad [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYx4Bc6_eE], Mr. Croshaw? I'm pretty sure it's not about hatred. It never really is. I'm sure that during the most of the twentieth century, it wasn't that white Americans hated non-white Americans at all, it is just that...

Here's my take on DLC: For a long series of games now, I'd see the game released, then a ton of DLC, and eventually they'd release a complete version. Examples: ~ Borderlands 2 Game of the Year edition ~ Civilization V Complete Edition ~ Batman: Arkham City, Game of the Year Edition ~...

There's one or more guys with good ideas having to share an office with a giant monster clown they don't know how to say "no" to. Isn't that the standard model for every AAA dev team? And congrats Mr. Croshaw on your engagement, I think. 238U UPDATE: According to Yahtzee's Wikipedia...

I remember Yahtzee talking about how in Mafia II the morning police chase getting to the mission made the game more pleasant, and was possibly more fun than the missions themselves. Otherwise there wasn't too much else to do in the world. I enjoyed stealing cars more than the missions, but I...

I think it comes down to intent. If it went like this: PÉTURSSON: Wow. We messed up. Okay, guys, take a memo. Tell our players we fucked up. We went for cheap, easy cash and that was totally disrespectful and they deserve to be mad at us. Tell 'em we're sorry and we'll fix it. GAME...

Don't you know this is better than any video friend? It's an action movie Here we go watch the bad guys get their butts kicked Really makes me feel good Don't you know it's Nintendo? Really gets the blood flowing through my veins now Don't you know it's a feel good show, electronic bliss...

It's worse than that. When we have a manned probe outside the Earth's magnetic field, one CME (Coronal Mass Ejection, or solar flare) will cook an astronaut thoroughly. We even had to worry during the Apollo missions because of solar activity during one mission that was indicative of a possible...

It's a terrible truth that I've come to realize that when too much is at stake our instincts tend to outweigh our ability to think things through rationally. Granted there are some few exceptions.One seeming exception seems to be the use of nuclear (post-atomic) weapons. Even though there have...

The last time they murdered a human being for having a rational thought-out opinion. If they don't end up in gibbets or tied to an anthill, I'm going to be sorely disappointed. 238U

I thought the comparability of the pink-suited chap to Julian Assange [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange] was conspicuous. Some artist may have simply been inspired. Maybe he was going for Karl from Die Hard and Assange is the more recent platinum-blonde Euro-dude in common culture...