Recent content by Mackie Stingray

*shrugs* Yes. I've marched in two Take Back The Night rallies and try to set a tone of gender equality in my interactions, insofar as I try much anything. Most of it's fairly unconscious. I have familiarized myself with gender-specific issues such as 'Schroedinger's Rapist' and the past abuses...

Descent: Freespace. The Shivans were creepy, that's certainly part of it, but I really think the problem was that the Lucifer became a metaphor for my own helplessness in my life. It was a bad time for me, constant fights with peers in school and no shortage of general troubles. I probably only...

A lost gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA00N6r2Tt8 If somebody can tell me how to reformat that link to present the video in a pretty manner, feel free to say so and I'll try to fix it.

The game Beyond Good & Evil. Especially the scene where [redacted] get(s) [redacted] from your [redacted], and Jade is tearing herself up inside and projecting it all on [redacted]. The game leans so heavily on clichéd tropes and recognizable archetypes, I really may never understand how they...

A response, possibly redundant, because it like its hypothetical identical predecessor is lost within pages upon pages of replies: We don't cry for those we lost. We cry for ourselves. To cry for the dead is pointless. To cry for our loss has a high probability of personal value.

Hrm. Been a while since I watched this, and never paid a lot of attention. It didn't seem like a bad show, it just didn't match my aesthetics. Earth bender. I recall they have significant limitations, and the lead character who was an earth bender was scary powerful besides, but it seems like...

I would say don't go for the new girl, not on the basis of freedom, but because I don't see any reason you should anger the girl you're with now. Really, you two should remain friends. Do you think that's remotely possible if you obviously dumped her for somebody else? Take it slow.

I am not against efforts at positive eugenics. You will find this described on Wikipedia and in various places besides; I know I didn't first encounter the term online. The difference between positive and negative eugenics is fairly straightforward. Positive eugenics involves seeking to...

You're missing an important detail. While this would function for some scenarios, and is a good baseline, one must also judge whether the same action is equally harmful to all. Is a punch in the face to everybody fair when one such person has brittle bones, which increase his risky of dying from...

So! I just watched Monkey Shines. It's Romero, I had to try it out. Not bad. Sort of Freudian, though not in the 'kill your father to fuck your mother' sense. More like Lord of the Flies was Freudian. Kind of made me think of a recent article here about Rousseau vs. Hobbes (and also, in that...

At 17 comments, I thought I might have something to add. However, starting with Irridium and moving on from there, I find I have nothing to say. Why the hell am I posting this? Ah yes. I remember now. Just sayin', okay, seems I actually like Critical Miss readers. For once, I don't regret...

Swifteye, I was thinking about that very question: "What would it be like?" The best I can figure is My Life As A Dark Lord turned into a Farmville-style social game.

This hurts my brain. I'm almost certain this isn't a VALIS reference, but the Philip K. Dick fan in me just can't see it any other way.

Good one, Hal. In my opinion, this violence clearly is a sign that parents should not modify PS3s to play Halo!

Diapers. God I'm old.