Possibly the best thing about Facebook is that some idiots are dumb enough to post stuff like that with their own, real names attached.

Homeschooled. Enough said. Poor girl won't have the chance to develop a sane world view until she's able (or forced) to escape from her indoctrinating, cultish parents.

The only technical problems I encountered with Dark Souls was the awful framerate in Plaguetown, or whatever that area's called where you descend the wooden walkways down into the swamp. Combined with the narrow ledges, long falls, and the most obnoxious enemy in the game (those goddamn mosquitoes), it made that area…

It's kind of sad that comments like yours are regularly more informative than the article itself.

Yeah, I agree. Shying away from the term "honor killing", out of some sense of political correctness, doesn't seem to me to be doing any favors for the women who are trapped in these kinds of family situations. Honor killing is a real thing that happens, and needs to be talked about in plain, forthright language.

They have the guy on tape explicitly saying he killed them out of some freakish sense of honor. It was an honor killing. Why should it be taboo to identify the motive just because the defendant is muslim?

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…