Recent content by frobisher

If they hate/fear/mistrust her for being a woman - and good luck with confirming that on personal basis - then it is misogyny. Watering down >2k years old definition into McLabel does nothing in terms of describing phenomenon. If they hate/fear/mistrust her for engaging in certain activity it...

And here we go, "Pink Ponies" in terms of relevance, as predicted. See above for ponies. Oh, and is that one yours? "If it's sarcasm, why would it be a question?". If there is a rule about sarcasm AND questions I'd like to hear it. Of course it makes no sense - but your "you do not know...

Geting better - personal dictionary AND feeling insulted. Prediction for next post - Department of Irrelevance presents: Pink Ponies. How is that "sarcasm cannot be present in a question" rule by the way? I am sure making no sense feels better than grammar issues :) And, if you want to...

I am sure you do know. Specifically, about that hidden rule stating that sarcasm cannot be present in a question. Oh, who am I kidding, way to go - clinging to some faint hope some (failing) smoke screen of semantics can be a substitute of tackling anything else in that post - but that...

If you knew what you were talking about - and at this point I find it rather hard to believe - you wouldn't be asking those questions and failing at sarcasm. First of all: Triss. She is *supposed to be beautiful*, to the extreme actually - because her "attributes" are the result of...

The rest being marketing studies, money, money, money, target audience, money, money, target audience, money, lowest common denominator, target audience, etc Repetition as a way to accent importance. Rest reserved for excuses that are always invented. And some already were - eg. in this...

This kind of design for females would solve all controversies with a pinch of realism. ....564 reasons why we will not see such design in games....565, 566...

Whoa, 8 angry pages about a comic that migth as well be interpreted as satire about Escapist and the fact ME3 controversy generates traffic... as long as there is *something* about it on the front page...almost all the time... for weeks and weeks.

Hahaha and we are talking about a game marketed as "plethora of endings" - not just "there is different ending somewhere, possibly, who knows" :)

Agreed. Unfortunately there are reviews that pretend to be both at the same time... There is no "opinion" or "thesis" excuse when we deal with second case. And there is no requirement of mentioning every major gameplay mechanics in the first case if it is not relevant to the thesis. And yet...

This. If they decide to use "great story" & "influence the story" in marketing, they don't get to hide behind "artistic integrity" - either they deliver or they don't. Also, "artistic integrity" is hard to apply to story that is being created by a bunch of different people, retconning each...

So I guess Mass Effect is not on the 2012 list - nice, though... unorthodox... reason is chuckleworthy, especially when randomly thrown "drooling imbecile" is as arbitrary & substantiated as certain... insecurities ;)

I believe you can feel betrayed by the ending for many reasons - not just because it is "not happy enough" as some would like to suggest. "Has no sense", "pointless", "forced", or "arbitrary" in no particular order? As if someone at BW decided "We will challenge stereotypes one more time! It...

My personal favourite is the fact you can rush to finale with scraps of assets. You will be annihilated, but it will have nothing to do with... lack of assets XD I guess Mass Effect 2 and the fact you could decimate your team or even get killed in final cutscene was still too complicated for new...

I'll stop here, I think we gave them too many ideas already ;)