Recent content by Heaven's Guardian

Well, to some degree, we know that there will be one. The "camp gay" archetype seems largely to be caused by an in-utero antibody reaction to testosterone that is strongly influenced by the mother's antibodies (the chance of male homosexuality rises greatly from about 2% to 3 1/2% from the first...

It's not so much the visual likenesses they are suing for so much as it is the skill likenesses. It's largely established that the player ratings are set to resemble the skillsets of players on the actual teams, and when you combine it with the numbers and classes, it's pretty obvious that 97...

I don't think that the people that Microsoft really wants to target with the Xbone are really all that bothered by the glaring issues. Unfortunately for Microsoft, these people are probably likely to ask their more knowledgeable friends about the best console choice, if they bother to get one at...

Proms are meant for the sort of people who enjoy all of the spectacle and celebration involved. I will say that, depending on the size of your school and whether you let people know in advance you won't be going, you may have to put up with a lot though. I told a friend that I wasn't going more...

Thatcher was, along with Nelson Mandela, one of the two greatest heads of government in the 20th century. Obviously a substantial number of people hate her, including most people on this board, but Great Britain was a borderline failed state when she entered office. There were restrictions on...

Accounting for inflation, $69.99 will not really be any more than $59.99 was for this cycle, and if a really good game comes out at that price it won't deter me at all. Regardless of what Sony says, I expect the first games at that price to come out shortly after the PS4 launch, because...

This is a very misleading title. They didn't win the battle to extradite him, pending appeal; they won a battle over what evidence will be provided at the extradition hearing.

We're not talking about some random, small subset of soldiers here; this is a very significant percentage, so much so that you can't possibly remove them from an army and have a legitimate fighting force left. The sort of men who join the army for frontline combat generally have very powerful...

Look, the research has been done, and thus far it's shown that male combatants get killed or injured at a much higher rate when women are in the squad, as the OP briefly mentioned. They start ignoring orders and using unsound battle tactics to protect female soldiers, and I don't see this...

I know people love to keep ripping on SE, especially over FFXIII, but honestly: it works. FFXIII was their fastest-selling game ever, and the sequel sold a few million copies without them needing to make any real edits to the engine or graphics. People keep calling them dumb, but it seems to me...

Marijuana isn't being legalized: federal law supersedes everything states do, and federal agents will be obligated to arrest anyone who tries to sell or smoke it. Unless the federal laws are found to be unconstitutional, which they won't be, considering the Supreme Court makeup, there's going to...

Permabans are pretty much universally a terrible idea, though. It's the harshest punishment possible for game publishers to give to their players, and contrary to what seems intuitive, mild punishments are really the only functional way to change behaviour. Since sexism/racism/anything you say...

I've been saying for a couple of years now that Anonymous is dead. The old members of Anonymous would be laughing at these idiots trying to hijack it for their own causes. Remember the rule "Anonymous is not your personal army"? Essentially, a bunch of left-wing radicals decided to take over a...

I was shocked that she wasn't in the poll. It baffles me how anyone can be that versatile, even if a lot of her best work is in anime, rather than games (still, Katherine from Catherine and Etna aren't exactly nobody characters, and she does a really good job with both). And the poll said...

Of course it isn't "wrong". The word is meant as a pejorative for a socially undesirable behaviour, just like all the other labels. Its negative connotations are because society generally views this kind of behaviour as bad, so the word doesn't really get used in an impartial sense, but there is...