Recent content by Catrixa

Why specifically Penny Arcade? Wouldn't it be better to have a more wide-spread news source bring awareness to this issue? Penny Arcade is first and foremost a site for gamers. Not everyone who uses a cell phone/tablet/laptop/desktop/anything with a circuit board is a gamer. Wouldn't it be more...

I feel like implementing a "It's ok you made that low-content post, here's a little slap on the wrist"-system wouldn't really improve anything. As plenty of users above me have mentioned, it's less of a "This person made a minor mistake! We must ban them!!" situation and more of a...

I feel like this is kinda like the whole "Mass Effect has a sex scene!!!" outrage. Fox News went nuts that there was a super raunchy sex scene in an infant's plaything, drummed up a ton of controversy, then found out they were so far off the deep end that they had to apologize. Target's big...

I suppose I can't comment from your perspective, since I'm not a man, but let's see... If I started a knitting club (which is stereotypically a "woman's" activity) and everyone made fun of my husband for being there and having testicles... I guess it would be far more awkward than simply...

I don't think it's an excuse so much as it is a plea for understanding. Mistakes are things that all humans do a lot, but sometimes it seems people don't really put themselves in other people's shoes. ?We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour,? --Stephen M.R. Covey. I...

At this point, I'm getting the feeling Gamergate is simply focusing on the wrong points when trying to defend their positions. This interview was pretty much "ignore questions, regurgitate rhetoric." If I didn't know what they were talking about, I would have easily mistaken it for a...

Did they ditch the awkward real-time menu-based combat? Where, instead of swinging your sword, you select attack->swing sword from a menu while getting whaled on? Just like you would in real life? If so, I will so play this game. It looks like a goddamn dudebro roadtrip, except there are...

I don't care on ONE condition: it somehow remains possible for me to play Feed the Beast. I don't care how much computer reworking and nethackery I need to do, I just want my tiny, 4-person server to keep running all those mods. If they make a sequel based on microtransactions, great. If they...

So it falls in the category of statements meant to communicate ideas within a group, as I tried to explain in my second paragraph? 'Cause then it doesn't really need to change what it's saying to appeal to outside groups (as the original post suggested), since it's really not talking to them...

Whelp, I haven't been keeping that much track of the whole GamerGate thing, other than to get specifically angry about specific topics, so I feel I'm in a good position to comment. -GamerGate, "[We're ]not your shield." Other slogans (may not be current) -Nike, "Just do it." -Tide, "Tide...

I play a lot of Magic: the Gathering, so That Guy is usually the dude with an Ok-to-decent home brew who thinks his deck is The. Best. and drags it to a tournament to display his awesomeness for everyone to see. If he beats someone just starting out/has a cruddy deck, he'll be sure to inform...

Oh boy. This is gunna get buried under mountains of other conversations, but I'm going to continue mashing my fingers into some plastic like it isn't. So, members of the Escapist (or lurkers who have run into this thread), let's play a game! No worries, it's not that fun, so you don't have to...

I thought the weird animation was supposed to be a bit video-game-y? Like, in the first episode, it always bugged me that the cookies Ruby is eating just sort of vanish. But, in a video game, that'd be pretty standard animation, for the most part, especially for something lower than AAA (not...

This change creates and solves issues for me in so many different ways I can't really say it's beneficial for me or not... On the one hand, faster sets means revisiting worlds I like more often than once every jillion years. I'm still waiting for the New Phyrexia vs. Eldrazi vs. Slivers set...

This is equal parts true and unhelpful. The thing most people who are naturally skinny or worked to become skinny forget is that obesity isn't always just a lack of knowledge about weight loss. If it was, this simple sentence would be all they need. "Oh, I just need to exercise and not eat this...