Recent content by Marble Dragon

I won't comment on the issue itself, since I get the feeling that's not really what you're after anyway. But I may be able to give you some advice. I hang out with a lot of pretty pretentious people, the kind who are interested in talking about philosophy in their spare time. Saying that you...

What annoys me about these kinds of girls is not that they're "not geeky enough" or "can't prove their nerd cred." It's when they label themselves nerds before they have anything to do with nerd icons or culture. I don't think that they get into it for sexual attention necessarily, despite what...

I once spent upwards of twenty minutes explaining to an airheaded girl why our high school's newspaper cannot and will never run a story on how amazing and noble PETA is. Funny thing is, even after I told her about the sea kittens, the comparison of slaughterhouses to the Holocaust, and the...

When people ask, I always say my religion is poetry. I know, I know, it's an obnoxious thing to say. But it's honestly what makes the most sense to me. There is something that connects everything in our universe, otherwise it wouldn't be called a universe. And that connection is the closest...

The main character from A Reckless Disregard for Gravity? I dunno. Does he fall on my face or something? I think I'll be okay otherwise. (Although the main character is certainly more athletic than me, so I'm probably fucked unless he gets hit by a floating car or something.)

So, why does music exist anyway? Is it so we can all just sit around with smarmy looks on our faces, secure in the notion that our music is better than everyone else's music? Does a band get up on stage and perform a song so they can all be in some smug, superior state of being? No. Fuck no...

I used to live on Bainbridge Island, one of the first places Japanese-Americans were taken from, and we studied Japanese internment for what seemed like forever. Every year. We even had people who were once in internment camps come in and talk to us. Of course, that was a big part of that...

Why can't art be fun? I like looking back on an experience and thinking about it. When I walk out of a classical concert, I sometimes feel as if my heart has escaped me. As if I don't need wings to fly. Because for a moment there, the emotion of the piece stunned my brain, and it was just my...

I didn't know her personally, but I understand this loss to be a great one for our community and for the world. We need people who have great ideas and reflections on our world, and we need people who are able to voice them well. And if voicing them well means pissing people off, so be it! I...

Gary Larson is an amazing person. You, good sir, win. For girls: Can't go wrong with gory period descriptions. For guys: Describe your penis in painful detail? I don't know. I've had less experience in that area. And if you really hate whoever you're talking to, just switch those around...

You don't sound haughty because you've done research. You sound haughty because you're sitting around on a gaming forum trying to make us all look stupid by showing off all you know about art, and all the research we haven't done. I think the glorious thing about art is that understanding of...

Purple plums are amazing. They're one of my favorite fruits, and definitely my favorite out of the variety with pits. I've never thought of dipping them in sugar, but I've eaten them along with ice cream. So good. I wish they got more recognition in the fruit community. I've met people with...

Well, that was interesting. There's quite a bit I could say about it, and most of it I'm not going to. Suffice it to say that this guy has totally missed the point of anyone speaking against sexism in games. But okay, that's cool. Whatever, I can dig it this once. I'll be perfectly honest -...

I think it's a good idea to not wear slutty clothing around. Women should be careful, because that's the way the world is. (I could write a couple pages on how society tells women they can only be attractive by being showy, then turns around and tells them it's their fault if they look too...

My school's student body is 47% Mexican and 43% Caucasian. With that in mind, you'd think we'd get less racism towards the majority population. Nope. Whites get some racism too, but I haven't seen as much. Once, in the hallway, my friend said "Hey, look, it's a trash can!" I looked at the...