Ha! "Hateful Muppet" was good, but I like the ring of "Stupid butt monkey Rick Santorum...".

Well, my head exploded. Thanks alot, io9.

You're deluding yourself. They ARE doing it just to be jerks. That they find posthumous FB posts to be "lacking in taste" may be the rationale they offer others (and perhaps even kid themselves into believing), but their true motivation is that they are cruel cowards who enjoy inflicting pain on people from the…

You say you aren't victim blaming, but your position boils down to believing it's the responsibility of the victims to learn how to be stronger and diffuse the situation, rather than the responsibility of the bully to learn to treat people with basic respect, or at the very least practice a little self-restraint.

Well, I don't think the two situations are the same. There's a difference between teasing someone to their face on school grounds, during school hours, and posting comments about them somewhere on the internet. There's also a difference between grown adults in positions of authority being mocked by children, and a kid…

Yeah, i'm with you, I actually loved 4. Great central premise, decent enough execution. It may be my second favorite of the series, after number one (the experience of which will never be surpassed for me because it was so novel and bizarre when I played it).

This game looks weird enough that it may finally convince me to give the MMO genre another shot.

But what's the point?

I don't know what it is about that show, but all the characters rub me the wrong way. I don't know if it's the writing, or the acting, or the personalities of the characters, the pacing of the plot...maybe all of the above. But I don't find any of them likable or interesting, including Rick. They're all such cliche…

When someone asks if this thing should be a bear, you say YES!

I'll take a group of scruffy, middle-aged men over a group of whiny, melodramatic teenagers any day. At least we'd be able to kick back in a bar after our adventure and have a few drinks, without someone getting a spontaneous nosebleed or having a huge sweatdrop pop out of their forehead every time a cute girl walked…

I think *part* of the reason you encounter so much resistance to discussions like this, in the context of geek culture, is that you are dealing to a large degree with guys who have been made to feel explicitly un-manly for a good portion of their lives, specifically for being geeks. And therefore they have a very hard…

I'm wondering how the business side of this works out. There's no fee for the service, you only pay per game. So I'm guessing developers are only getting money when their game gets played (minus the chunk I assume OnLive takes for providing the service). And it's much cheaper than actually buying the game. So,…

I tried online dating briefly, and from my perspective I think it's pretty rude to just ignore someone. If they follow up on the date, and you aren't interested, I think the bare minimum of courtesy calls for a "No thanks, good luck out there!" reply. Of course, if they keep contacting you after that, demanding…

I feel very sorry for this guy. He obviously has some serious issues. Whether they're based on some kind of developmental condition or simple social awkwardness/shitty personality, I have a feeling he's going to have a very, very hard time ever finding a fulfilling romantic relationship.

Do they bite or sting? I assume that if it's capable of eating a carrot then it must have some mighty jaws.

Intelligence often just makes people more capable of rationalizing awful decisions and behavior.

If anyone ever tries to tell you that we're sophisticated creatures who are better than animals, and have overcome our baser instincts with logic, reason and self-reflection, just show them a few black friday shopping riot videos.

Heh, yes, I have fond memories of the mission where you're supposed to convince snobby apartment dwellers to allow mutants to move into the building. I managed to convince all but one...lucky for me, she died in her sleep. Violently.

Well let's see...killing villagers, farmers, the elderly, mothers, fathers, all permissable, right? Can you kill blind people? The homeless? The mentally ill? I'm guessing yes, as long as they're adults. Exactly how old does someone have to be before killing them changes from a moral abomination to a non-event? 16?…