This looks great! I look forward to playing it in a year or so when all the DLC is out and everything's as debugged as it's gonna get and there are some great mods and it's like eight bucks on the right day.

Love Fallout. It is the best. To find something as good as it is, I have to go back to Ultima. Which is pretty far back now.

Anita Sarkeesian is awesome and I hope she never quits.

Grr. Just thinking about some of the idiots at my school makes me want to headbutt stuff. Coffee may also be a factor.

I kind of like her theory. By extension, we're ALL too hot for the internet.

The royal family, and in fact the whole concept of aristocracy, has been @#$%ing people over since more or less the beginning of time. Bit hypocritical of them to get squeamish now.

... what would it be like if all women acted like this all the time, not worrying about wearing clean underwear or being concerned about their reputations because they chose to have as much sex as they wanted to.

I'm currently up to my eyeballs in D&D, it feels like. Got a 3-point-ish campaign going on Saturday nights and a 2e game Sunday nights. I'm happily not DMing in either of them, but it's still a lot of D&D. I'm on a DM hiatus until I run a Shadowrun/Fallout game in the indeterminate future.

But if video games are the equivalent to magazines ... and sure, it's all apples and oranges, but whatever ... then the lack of female-friendly (or even just not-female-hateful) video games would be akin to having magazines, as a medium, favor one gender or another.

Love that quote. People should keep it in mind in regards to all kinds of things.

I've seen what you're talking about in places (Jezebel LEAPS to mind), but I haven't seen it from her.

Tarkeesian is awesome. Her videos are great. I don't agree with absolutely everything she says, but I think her points are very valid, and that the gaming industry (among others) has some serious issues.

They know. Kids always know, even if they can't articulate what they know, and maybe they forget what they know by the time they're adults, but they still know. Hearing it out loud (or reading it in print) is probably better than just wondering your whole life if what you know is really true.

Does the choking count if it's during sex and she asks you to?

That's not the way it looked to me. She slapped him outside the elevator, then they got in, and right after she presses the elevator buttons she hits him again — at least, I think she hits him, I'm not totally sure, but his head does snap back like she hit him. Then he hits her and backs up, then she comes at him…

I'm a little foggy on one part of the video.

They could embrace the complication. Make it a feature, rather than a bug.

When police asked her why she didn't leave him earlier, she stated that 1) she loved him and that 2) he took care of her—Harden controlled her diabetes medication and never taught her how to use her insulin pump.

At 5 or 6 years old, I think that the other kids (or at least some of them) will be utterly fascinated by the idea of a boy with long hair. Some of them will object on various (all pointless) grounds, the way that kids (and fundamentalists) will. The boy could face serious bullying. He will probably have to fight a…

It's frustrating, because no other gay guys, in my acquaintance's words, "no gay guy wants to go out with a slob, someone who's too chunky or curvy, it isn't attractive."