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I know there won't be a Portal movie but Chell was a bad-ass. Even though you couldn't really see her unless you did one of those weird infinite portals. GLaDOS was a similarly awesome "female" antagonist if you can count that.

I just want to be a pedant and point out that - in my country at least - streaming is not illegal. The person who put it there for you to stream is doing something illegal, if you were to download it P2P and save it on your hard drive for ANY amount of time that is not legal, but if you were to stream it, you are not…

I just went out into the world shopping this afternoon. I found a top, tried it on, convinced myself I was going to buy it, took it with me out of the stall but then walked right past the counter and hung it back where I got it from, and waltzed right out the shop. About 10 paces down the road I really felt like I had…

Yeah I think my mother has NPD - my own, not so scientific diagnosis - and also though I sometimes feel sorry for her with the way her life has turned out, I lean the same way as you do.

Is NPD a mental health issue though? Or if someone is a sociopath, lacks empathy, or is a grouchy motherfucking bully, is that a disorder that is fixable with treatment, or is that person just a shitty, shitty human being? It might not be their fault but I really do struggle with this. Where does "suffering a…

I wasn't particularly close to my father, but he had the decency to pass away on Father's Day, so I only have to suffer through one awkward/sad/not-sure-how-to-feel day per year.

My mother used to give me a cold shower when habitually losing her shit at me. Worse, we didn't actually have a shower, just a tub, so I would get my face shoved under a cold tap. She even had a name for it, which the recesses of my mind won't quite let me remember. To this day, I feel some panic putting my face into…

This again comes back to another point I made elsewhere - why do people who "seriously" play video games so insistent on being considered "gamers"? They are just people, enjoying a form of entertainment. Why does participating in a certain activity have to come with an identity-label in this case?

The trouble is with this community is that people feel a need to identify as "gamers". Which as Ben Yahtzee Croshaw points out, is kind of ridiculous. People who watch movies don't identify themselves as "moviers". I guess a lot of people gain a lot of their identity from the music they listen to, but usually the…

They already do that (microchip and desex ALL their cats prior to adoption). They've done that for years. This is what I mean, he seems to be criticising their methods without knowing very much about them. And TNR of feral cats is a completely separate issue from stray or lost and found cats and he seems to have…

He offered Bob Kerridge a $5 donation per cat if they would euthanize the ones in their shelters, so yes. The offer was on Campbell Live. But like I say Bob probably should have taken him up on it given that they euth about 50% of the animals that come in.

I don't disagree with the conservation message, I just disagree with his inflammatory methods. By all means control the feral population, but don't mindlessly kill the cats in shelters when they're not the ones doing anything. I actually personally don't find it fine to kill possums or rats or cows or chickens or…

Yeah I personally know those academics you speak of, and yes, while I respect their input into this, they aren't the ones getting feral and domestic cats confused, believe me. He made that error all on his own. I'm also pretty sure that Sir Paul didn't tell him to offer the SPCA $5 for every cat they put down, that…

This shit is ALWAYS appropriate.

Gareth Morgan is a nong. He once invested in his SON'S business and his son went on to sell that business for millions. How exactly does that make him an expert in matters of conservation or animal control? It doesn't. I've worked in both those fields and this man doesn't even know the difference between domestic and…

Indeedy they are. Nobody ever grows up thinking they want to kill and disembowel other creatures for a living. I felt bad that a lot of the time they have to take methamphetamines just to keep up with the production line too. It's really sad.

Jesus, you make a point at the end, but that article was all over the fucking place. Look, I'm sure I won't be the first/only one to say this: but it's not the pampered city pets your friend mentions, that see vets and mostly live indoors, who will be decimating the bird population. It'll be those farm cats that "live…

Just because I have a choice doesn't mean that I chose animals over human beings - I went vege after reading Fast Food Nation, and the poor conditions for immigrant and otherwise disadvantaged workers in slaughtering plants was pretty instrumental in that choice. And just because someone (who doesn't even appear to be…

Veganism for many people has very little to do with health and much more to do with animal ethics - we live in a world where it is very easy to fortify foods with B12 (the only thing missing from a vegan diet - you can get vitamin D from a walk in the sunshine and all the amino acids are there, thanks). Many…