Nifty Mario Kart mention, but let's not be total goobers here: he obviously learned how to brake, like with his foot on a brake pedal, from go karting.

But isn't this game paid for and influenced by the PLA, at least as much as America's Army is funded and approved directly by the US Army/DoD?

True, you didn't mention the term censorship, but your argument is too generalized to be relevant in any other capacity. It's fine to push for pure, uncut anarchy, but that kind of system can only function as a closed system, an actual anarchistic state. Otherwise, if you're mad at society deciding what's good for an…

Eric, maybe I'm an ignoramus, but I'm genuinely a little nervous about you posting this kind of critique of PLA (and all-around party) propaganda, while living in Beijing. Not saying you should self-censor, just that I'm nervous. As psywar stuff goes, this seems relatively high-stakes. The only in-game scenario that…

Xbox Live isn't a right. It isn't operated by the government. It can police itself however it sees fit. Your censorship argument is a fine one, but misplaced. Apply it where it belongs, where the state is censoring something, or asking private firms to do so. This is about a service trying to minimize asshattery. Why…

When handled right, I sometimes think energy timers in F2P games are a blessing. It boots you out of that junkie tunnel-vision, at least for a while.

Quiver length, obviously. Doesn't matter how perky your Elven ear-tips are, milady, that arrow-carrier is sitting far too high.

I hear you. It's a pretty insane amount of stuff you have to do, all the way to endoscopies.

Well put. I wasn't putting the stereotype into the proper context. It's also the kind of mini-point she could have made very quickly: "These are both problems, for different reasons," etc.

Gotta love all the comments detailing, often at extreme length, how her criticism isn't a big deal, and how we should stop talking about it.

That's a crazy, crazy, super-crazily minor factual discrepancy to gripe about. I feel the opposite, regarding the research on display. Look at the huge breadth of time, platforms and genres covered in the titles she references.

That's an interesting point. But do people really associate a Chippendale's dancer with homosexual stereotypes? If anything, the go-to visual would be said dude being fawned over, screamed at, and heavily petted by a gaggle of straight ladies.

Those are hardcore symptoms. Have you gone through the entire celiac diagnosis process?

In that case, it's about cross-contamination (or an indication that it's malt-free, though malt is obviously pretty rare in fudge), which doesn't matter to gluten-avoiders, but remains a serious issue for actual celiac sufferers.

Worst D&D character sheet ever.

To wit: The first two comments on the page were posted less than 20 minutes after your post went up. Not that they were implying they'd watched it, but still.

His ponytail would stand straight up, and his goatee would fly right off. It would be magnificent.

Think of all the alarms and confetti that would result, if you would just once say yes. Plus, that guy would likely be airlifted to corporate and given one of many long-reserved corner offices, complete with gold-plated Atari Jaguar.

So let's get this straight: You're raging about tweet language, as opposed to the sentiments and language in the actual article?

If only Abe Lincoln had been taking a sweet Vine selfie with Mary on that fateful night.