Recent content by Rutskarn

Shit, I guess I'm the guy who says that sounds really interesting. The most fun I had in World of Warcraft was as a traveling mechanical squirrel salesman. MMOs are very bad at delivering the kind of responsive, kinetic combat I enjoy and very good at delivering a sense of shared community...

Let's start with "the patriarchy," which does not mean what a lot of people assume it does. It's a complex topic, and from a historical and anthropological perspective, its existence isn't really up for debate. It's a means of structuring society propagated by prehistorical tribal conflicts that...

"Feminists in gaming." Not "women." I never said "women." I'm a feminist in gaming, and I'm not a woman.

Feminist checking in to say, no, this isn't how it works. Not for me, certainly not for even the most extremist person I've spoken with. Sexy women are awesome! Women who are in tune with their sexuality are awesome! Nudity is awesome! All of that, taken on its own, is great stuff...

Well, the sounds are wrong so far, but that's probably one of the last things going in. I'm optimistic.

I don't know if the point's entirely clear to you. I get skeezed out by Absolution's portrayal of women--but it's not because there are women who are murdered. I'm for inclusion, full stop, and if that means women get murdered, they get murdered. Can you remember anyone getting angry at...

It looks as though one of you is arguing the movie should not exist, and one of you is arguing the movie should be ABLE to exist. You guys aren't necessarily disagreeing. If I'm an editor and a man submits an article that's just 4,000 words claiming a gay man killed Santa Claus and has been...

See, it's really not, though. It's becoming increasingly popular for some people to (rightfully) complain about lack of female representation online, but that only seems like a roar when compared to the silence that came before it. Honestly, especially on sites like this, people who want this...

I can confirm firsthand that a lot of things that seem reasonable in the Kickstarter phase--well, once you're out there on your own, trying to clean the river muck out of your keyboard while the mosquitoes are swarming, the tide is rising, and you're on your last two shotgun shells, you realize...

Man, holy shit. I am the Social Justice Warriorest of Social Justice Warriors, to the point where reading these forums sends me into conniptions half the time, and even to me this comes across like they're trying to get a Fox News headline. Not that there should be anything particularly wrong...

"OH MY GOD FEMINISTS ARE NEVER HAPPY LITERALLY NOTHING EVER DONE TO INCLUDE WOMEN IMPROVES ANYONE'S LIVES WHARGAHBLARGHA" It's good to remember sometimes that just because every form of progress doesn't satisfy somebody, steps forward like this do satisfy most people. It's just that the news...

I disagree. Rapture wasn't a paradise ruined by renegades--plenty of audio logs point to other systems at the heart of Rapture's decline. Two relevant audio logs: 1.) The janitor frustrated at the fact that he hasn't been successful yet. When you set up your society as "the best and brightest...

Think of things from their perspective: "So the Danger Mouse series had only male characters. This is the 21st century, and we realize we can make an adventure cartoon for girls AND boys, so let's change that up. So we have three options: 1.) Make some old main characters female. Not a big...

If your employee's whole job is to be a personality that people are loyal to and respect, and that person publicly identifies themselves as an insane racist, then what are you supposed to do? Hope nobody else on the internet noticed, and everyone keeps tuning in to see what ol' Anthony's up to...