Recent content by Dastardly

Think of it as people being upset about a missed opportunity to correct and old whitewashing. Given the mythologies they are drawing from, there is no reason the original shouldn't have been of Asian heritage. It's just that, in that era, little white boys were buying comics, so all the heroes...

Probably because she's actually a famous pop star first, and superhero second -- so it's a bit different flavor from a lot of the other characters. Kind of like She-Hulk's lawyer side, but with a less serious spin.

I made my own: You can get whatever you want from anyone you want, just by asking, for the rest of your life... but when you die, they all die, too.

It definitely does. It doesn't necessarily do it more than violent movies, or even violent images on the news, but it certainly does desensitize people to violence. The more you see something, the less impact and novelty it has on you. It won't cause you to be violent, and it won't cause...

Most agree that, while video games don't cause violent behavior, they can desensitize us to violence. There's evidence to that, which is more than any of the other claims can boast. To me, the issue is with what type of behavior the game can promote/endorse/encourage. Violent behavior...

That's not what that stat says. It says IN THE PAST THREE MONTHS. Hardcore gamers spend in bursts -- ie, releases. Casual gamers spend a little at a time, but seem to do it pretty often. When you measure over a small amount of time, the burst is what will show. I'm not saying your...

What you're getting it is saying that the type of game is defined by how it is played. If that be the case, then people that play "core" games, but only do so casually, should be termed casual gamers. And people that play silly puzzle games for hours at a time should be classified as...

Denial doth not an argument make. If most of the people playing (and paying) are casual, that's the new core. If most of the folks in this country voted for Ron Jeremy for president, he'd be president. Doesn't matter if the wizened few think it's a dumb idea. Now, me? I don't think casual...

The real question is, with all of the many casual games, and all of the casual gamers playing them, why do we still lean on this crutch of refering to this other class of games as the "core?" Seriously, it would be like a guy from Mississippi walking around Kenya talking about how it's...

Blind dismissal, hiding behind the spectre of statistics (all of which are readily available on the internet, is a lazy bit of pseudointellectuality. Basically, your plan here is to play "King of the Hill," where you stand with what you consider the Power position and just deflect and play a...

It is about how blind people can be to bigotry. The idea is, if basically our whole society could, at one point, have been so blind to racism on such a grand scale, why is it so hard to believe that a small section of our society could still remain completely blind as to another form of...

Read again. No, I'm not equating them. I'm using one as an example of how the other thought process is flawed. I'm not equating the magnitude of the problems. Huge difference. For instance, someone could compare one country occupying another country by saying, "If someone broke into my...

Ah, found the problem. See, the fact that people like yourself can't "for the life of them" figure out why certain things might be sexist? That's exactly why there is so much discussion about it. It's a real issue, and it really happens. And while there are still so many people who can...

Sorry to single out just your comment, but it's more the sentiment I'm addressing - I don't think the honestly-concerned folks are worrying all that much about you in particular. The PSA in question is more about getting to parents (and teachers, too!) who may be allowing or even encouraging...