Recent content by Hap2

Been around for awhile myself, only posting when I felt I had something to contribute. Left during the whole Gamergate nonsense - had enough of the constant aggression, ignorance and obsession that swarmed the place at the time. I work in the news industry and see and hear enough nasty stuff...

Willfully disrespectful? You and I have different ideas of what respect is then. You came in, no first-hand experience or understanding of what trans individuals go through or feel like, and started pushing your pet theories as truth. How polite-sounding your tone is in writing does not make...

For all the problems with the prequels, I love the universe they helped to create. If it weren't for them, Star Wars Clone Wars wouldn't have existed - one of the finest speculative fiction shows I've ever seen.

I'm bi. I figured it out only recently within the last year after spending several years overanalyzing my feelings and behaviours - not pleasant, so I don't know much about the LGBT community around here. Two of my friends are gay, and another is bi as well.

I can appreciate a good piece of self-depracating humour; it can show how comfortable a person is with him/herself. At least you didn't ask if anyone stuck their genitals into a fan or something. The self-depracation would've taken on a whole new meaning.

26-year-old dude with zero partners. Figured out I'm bi within the last year - still trying to wrap my brain around that. I wasn't much of a sexual person before, as I didn't care much about sex. Things changed unexpectedly. I've been on relatively few dates, but haven't found anyone I...

Aside from making the left trigger shoot and the right trigger to aim (bizarre), San Andreas HD is a great improvement over the PS2/Xbox version. It's as clear and smooth running as the PC version. They added in checkpoints in missions (one of the biggest complaints), tuned up some of the...

Probably because the main thread is echo-chamber that doesn't allow for dissenting views. Why post somewhere you're going to get either shouted down for or ignored because it doesn't agree with the 'heroic underdog' narrative Gamergate likes to spin for itself. Hell, I pointed out a specific...

We're talking about a feud between a minority of gamers and video gaming journalists - the world doesn't care because there is no good reason for it to do so. Toothless and low-quality journalism in covering stories on the economy, environment, politics and other things that affect most people...

I'm a journalist. Editorials are an important part of journalism - they're basically mini-essays arguing for or against a point; meaning, they need evidence and good reasoning to back them up. They're found frequently in columns, feature pieces for magazines, and more often now on websites...

I don't know about that - phone calls are much easier and you don't have to gather good audio for a newspaper piece. Not everyone gets their feet on the ground these days. I do, when I have the time. As for paper trails, I ended up slamming the local newspaper with an article of my own for...

Journalists talk with each other, because like anybody else, we like to "talk shop," and if you've never done journalism, then you probably don't understand the stresses and challenges particular to the job. I'm not a games journalist - I cover a variety of things, mostly political, but I...

People not familiar with cameras can often confuse how aperture works. I've met journalists who were just starting out doing photojournalism who had trouble with it too.

Less like Halo and more like Unreal - it used the Unreal Engine after all. I loved the multiplayer on the PC, and took part in a number of tournaments as part of one of the largest clans playing the game at the time. The shotgun was always a favourite - it was highly unwieldly, but damn, if...

My point was: saying you're not victim blaming and then doing it in the same post is confusingly contradictory. There are no mitigations here: taking private photos and posting them publicly is wrong, full stop. Nothing else needs to be said. If a person went out for a walk and a car struck...