Recent content by Maldeus

Does anyone have a source on the Cryptic game engine shenanigans thing? I've been hearing it a lot, but so far, near as I can tell, it's just a rumor. Anyways, for anyone who wants to jump on board a desperate and, statistically speaking, doomed battle to save Paragon City, this is a thing...

Not a single damn one of us ever said they don't have the right to do these things. Just because we consider them amoral and/or stupid doesn't mean we think they should be illegal. I'm done dealing with your idiotic strawmen.

You claimed I held a position I do not actually hold. That is the definition of a strawman. The rest of your post is just claiming that a scam does not count as a scam because it worked. Leveraging her faux-victim status IS A SCAM because she's selling the line that she's bravely prevailing...

Oh, yeah, while we're at it, her standards for what counts as a "good portrayal of women in gaming" appears to be totally non-existent. If there's a good example of a female character, she picks some random trait like "is violent" and uses that to condemn the character as being not good enough...

You're a strawmanning idiot. Yes, that Kickstarter absolutely looks like a scam. I grant you, I can't be bothered to do a whole lot of research into that one specifically because no amount of screaming on the internet will change it. I can't see anything about their stated goals that would...

So a podcast Kickstarter would also be a scam, and basically raw profit because the equipment required to make a podcast is typically already owned or else requires less than about $100 to acquire. So what?

Look, I realize there is no chance in Hell anyone is actually going to do this. But I want it on record that talking about the anti-semitist and blatantly misogynistic morons crapping all over her Kickstarter is not actually productive at all, except in that she could've deleted their comments...

Bob talks about how you can demonstrate that absurd physical ideals in video games can actually ripple out and make it more likely that you don't get a job if you're not pretty enough, but the truth is that the opposite is true. HR departments are staffed primarily BY WOMEN, and if women are...

That Erin's aware they're in her head makes it all kinds of weird, because as far as I know that's really unusual. But that wasn't my point. And if Erin got traumatized by a psych ward, I'm pretty sure we'd know about it.

I just felt I should pop in to point out that the last situation there isn't really the same as Erin's. Yes, people can actually be incarcerated and drugged against their will without trial and without having even been suspected of an actual crime, purely on the word of an expert in a field...

What, Yahtzee, you spend so much time ranting about how much you hate children and now you're sad to find out other people share the opinion? You rant about how irritating and stupid they are, you theorize that the reason you don't like sex so much might be because of how repulsive the concept...

So, you'll get lots of pick-up artist/Game success stories, where guys will talk about how after they started being a "cocky, funny asshole" or whatever, suddenly there were so many more women interested in them. All of these stories have one thing in common. The first thing they did was...

What on earth could possibly have given you this impression when I explicitly said that it's the human face that loses Galactus points he might otherwise have earned for inhumanity? I'm genuinely curious as to how you could have come to this conclusion. Everything about his martial and...

Dr. Robotnik is virtually unknown outside the Sonic fandom, which has suffered heavily from a string of terrible games since the 3D era, and the recent success of Sonic Generations isn't anywhere near spectacular enough to make Robotnik or Sonic a well-known face outside of gaming circles...Or...

Popping in to agree here. Ask anyone under sixty who Bowser is, and odds are good they'll be able to tell you he's Mario's arch-nemesis, he kidnaps the princess a lot, and they can probably give you a loosely accurate description of him as some sort of giant turtle, or dragon, or dinosaur, or...