I've always thought it was a strange mix of narcissism and complete insecurity. They see a (usually good looking) woman with similar nerdy interests, they simultaneously think "she's clearly not a geek - because she's pretty/sexy/whatever" (pretty girls don't do this, it's for losers and outcasts like me) and "they're…

Not my first flat, but I've got this one! No description for kitschy redesigns of videogames (I can think of a few that might sum us up though), but the Trainspotting one is probably the best fit for me. I do own the book so that'll have to do.

Not in the US, and my only impression of Hooters is that it's a bar where the waitresses are beautiful and in skimpy/tight clothes. Isn't it a bit embarrassing to be caught in there? Like you want to look at pretty women but are still just working your way up to a strip club. Or maybe you're killing time before the…

I wonder if they're just really, really out of touch and don't quite understand the viewing figures that some popular YouTubers can pull in. I suppose you also run the risk of someone just bashing your game and getting hundreds of thousands of views, but then people can bash your game without footage anyway.

I pretty much agree with yours, but I'll try some different ones to get the ball rolling:

Co-op does seem like a really good fit, but I hope they don't sacrifice the single player game. I don't have many friends who play games and I'm wary of going into a game with a load of randoms so I rely on good single player experiences.

I just picked up The Walking Dead nice and cheap but only just noticed it's got "partial" controller support. Anyone know what this means? I've got an Xbox wired controller, if that makes any difference.

I think there's a rather big difference when there are video games actively developed and marketed for adults. There are even regulation boards like those for films where games are rated 18+, for example. I'm not shitting on the people who like a kids' cartoon, but it is a bad comparison.

I'd say it still looks like quite a bad party. It reminded me of a few weddings I've been to: half empty dance floors, bad DJs and questionable clothing choices (some people will use any opportunity to don a silly hat, whether they're 17 or 70).

The photos are bad enough - the thought of actual footage of me doing and saying all the stupid shit I did makes my skin crawl.

I imagined that a brony con would have loads of colours and saccharine pop/dance music - not gas masks and people growling and the like. I haven't watched the cartoon since it was on decades ago when I was a kid, but I can't imagine even with the reboot that this is a good fit.

I've always liked his Borderlands 2 and Trials one. And Skyrim - although I think that one got shared to death a bit.

It was exactly the same for those bullies at school who were probably from horrible homes and were lashing out. And of course, it completely ignores the fact that these people acting "out of pain" have no idea what that person has gone through in their life most of the time. They see an article or a picture and…

Well it seems a lot of people are happy to judge those who they decide haven't suffered enough and heap on some more shit for them!

"Johnston-Robledo says, and adds that she thinks women who are more comfortable with their bodies “would be more likely to use products where you really have to look at and interact with your fluid as opposed to clogging your body with a tampon and just tossing it into the toilet.”"

It needs to keep being addressed. Just like it needs to keep being addressed that gamers aren't sitting at home waiting to shoot up a school. We need to point out that these people are scum, but are in no way indicative of the community as a whole. We shun and punish them, we become better as a community (just like…

I'd love to go to a con, but I'd be afraid that some gatekeeper of geekdom would ask me a question that I didn't know the answer to and I'd be chased out of there with a swift arse slap and some pitchforks.

Did you read the article? If you center on the one word "joke" and make an uninformed opinion from it, that's not the author's fault. The stickers were meant as a joke - one making fun of this idea of "fake" gamer girls and geeks. The article is about people using these stickers to sexually harass and demean women.

I remember reading a comment on here by a woman a while ago and it really stuck with me for being so true (in some circles, obviously):

No, please don't. You look like a fool.