Clearly, Anita Sarkeesian is putting your PS4's to sleep. She will awaken them when women achieve true equality.

I totally agree that people are taking gaming, especially as some sort of lifestyle choice, way too seriously. But you're out of line saying the community are all basement dwelling trolls. There's certainly a subset of that, but as a hobby I don't think it's much different from a sewing circle, an RPG group, or a…

Well said. Inclusive games should, in theory, reach a broader market. If a game is friendly and accessible to all interest groups, it should sell to all of those interest groups. It shouldn't be incumbent on the developers to be inclusive unless they are trying to reach that market.

I hope you used STFU on him in person. It is the antithesis of the "intellectual" internet debate style.

Your theory about control doesn't really match up. The fact that you can process fear in real life implies that you have the natural response mechanisms. In a movie, yes, you're in for a ride and have no control, but a video game gives you control. Maybe not complete control - you're limited in what you're able to…

Dude should've opened up a premium cab service. Who wouldn't pay good money to ride up to the club in a brand new Porsche?

The wording is a one-way street. Government can't do anything about or to religion. The rest of the constitution and bill of rights provide enough power to the government that the law prevents or at least abrogates potentially harmful effects of religion, but it doesn't say anything about religion's ability to…

WTF? She's a porn actress. She makes her living having sex with people. He presumably knew that going into a relationship with her, and then he beat her for it?

I don't play, but I've got to know - can people actually force feed you bananas in the game?

I sincerely hope that the new generation of consoles and PC hardware, combined with the use of cloud computing, will enable individual AI routines that will allow NPCs to react to their missing cutlery.

An actual clown college might provide a more stable career.

Doesn't the company do periodic backups? I'd think if the company knows they're going to be laying people off, they could bring the administrator in the night before to collect all the relevant assets and store them on a separate drive. I'd imagine it's more a matter of IP protection. That's the main reason not to…

That sounds a lot like "Fireball Island".

Are you sure you didn't dream that? That sounds like something you experience while fighting a 105 degree fever.

Never have I felt like more of a dick than when playing Diplomacy. It's a great strategy game with simple rules, but man does it bring out my inner jerk.

Unless you're willing to fight for your man cave. Every dude needs a space, and most significant others are willing to let you have it as long as it's not within eyeshot of visitors or children. The compromise is that you can't put your nerd stuff anywhere else in the house.

He might be saying you should only nail the frigid ones.

What if you manage to nail the Jello to the tree, but the tree falls over when you're doing it. If it lands soundlessly, but the Jello still jiggles, does an angel get its wings?

That's a good point. I wonder, though, if such a relationship then slips into codependency. Commisserating over a common condition can bring two people together, but it still won't work if they don't have a solid foundation beyond that.

I think any marriage jumped into hastily is doomed to failure, whether there's a life-altering complication or not. You need to learn to love before you've tied the knot.