Recent content by Travis Fischer

That's my reaction too. I've always seen The Escapist as "The Zero Punctuation site that also has other stuff."

My regular coffee from the gas station is 4/5ths Dark Roast topped off with French Vanilla Cappuccino.

I'd switch around number 3 and 5, but otherwise that's a pretty spot on list.

First of all, the Street Fighter V controversy was months ago. Second, do you have any idea how many video games there are out there? How many people have mile-long Steam libraries full of games they'll probably never download, much less play? Most gamers can afford to be picky. Third...

Oh... you sweet summer child... If this entire outbreak of idiocy has proven anything it's that there is NOTHING under the sun that these people won't find a way to take offense over.

She's. Just. Standing. It makes sense for anybody to pose like that because it's literally just standing and looking over your shoulder. You are sexualizing... standing.

Blizzard has the trademark on "soon." In more than a decade of playing their games I've never seen them move this quickly to respond to ANYTHING. The response time on this matter is virtually unprecedented.

"There's a bear sitting in the living room, but it's not a problem because nobody is going into the living room... on account of the bear."

It was literally one forum poster and a handful of airheads.

This is the problem in three nutshells. 1. It's not sexual She has her back to the camera. That's where the ass lives. She's not sticking her butt up in the air and wiggling it around. She doesn't have "Juicy" stamped across her cheeks. You cannot claim sexualization based on nothing but the...

Oh look. Somebody gave a mouse a cookie.

Thor isn't selling well because Thor doesn't sell. The latest volume of Thor isn't doing much different than the last few. It has nothing to do with sexism. Ironically, the people complaining most are probably the ones actually buying the book and the people defending it the most probably...

These guys did. I'm sure they're not the only one. "Pow! Bang! Thud! That?s the sound of the new, progressive Captain America." - Chuck Ross "the title?s otherwise progressive stance." - Oliver Sara "Maybe a name change to ?Captain Progressive? would be a more accurate way Marvel could...

You've missed my point entirely.

Let's just go down the list and look at things in a case-by-case basis. Captain Falcon: Somebody explain to me how stripping away the identity of the first African American super-hero and putting him in the clothes of an old white guy is "progressive." This is pandering at its worst because...