Like your spitballing, I formulated my curriculum out of whole cloth, post-it notes, orange peels, and duct tape. It can take any form. The tricky part in any such education is getting past the cultural divide in modern America, including invoking the rightly named lightning rod of "rape culture." I would hate to see…

Though it saddens me to think about it, but I think a case can be made for colleges to offer all women headed to school to take rape resistance (euphemistically Safety) courses before they arrive on campus. Not just one day seminars, but several weeks of classes on avoidance of unsafe situations, deescalation of…

Really wish that everybody would take a collective chill pill and calm down. Not every game or platform is for everyone and not all of us can own every platform or kick ass game in existence. I look on this conversation as potentially insightful, but let us not point fingers at fellow gamers when really it is the…

It's frustrating, but watch the bitchy evaporate when it hits the shelves. They'll knock over their own mamas to grab one.

Well said.

Most pro hoops, football, and probably baseball aren't white, but white people love their heroes and playing them on licensed games. Why can't there be more female or people of African, Asian, etc. descent as protagonists? Surely we've all gone past the point where gamers need the crutch of seeing a white guy as the…

More people of color writing these games would be a great start.

Ditto. As you grow older, the flexibility will follow you in a myriad of ways. In terms of the holy trinity of endurance, strength, and flexibility, it provides the most bang for your buck over time.

You wouldn't happen to remember who published that study in the intervening time since you posted it? Was it a major behavioral science journal or was it more of a poll (Google throws thousands of hits for this one)?

I am with Vesta. If you're nearsighted and like to do any kind of sport (or just hate glasses), LASIK (or whatever they call it these days) is the best thing you can do. There is nothing I can say that can describe what it feels like to wake up in the morning and not reach for my glasses (uh, where are they?). As…

I agree that monetization is the currency of the Internet, but to the degree one actually cares about the disparate footprints of their identity scattered across a million places online is what (if I understand your reply) you replied to. It just doesn't matter enough to me or perhaps Shipley when weighed against a…

If only to refute the conservative charge that video games have any effect on personality (aside from Zynga's annoying social network games), do the study. I have worked with behavioral studies in the past and looking at it purely on a value basis, these are very inexpensive compared to clinical trials with…

I tip my hat to you.

Thank you to the hardcore space geeks who answered the question about image quality. I enjoyed reading your responses. Thank you zerogspacecow for asking the question in the first place.

The Big A is a fine choice for animation, but wouldn't the similarities (Kirby-based) between him and Darkseid invite a harder look at the film? The whole New Gods mythology is it's own thing, come to think of it. I want a great JL film, but they have to keep it simple and engaging and about the characters.

I share your wish for JGL to play Batman (which his reps debunked this weekend?). I worry less about the raccoon than about tackling the Cosmic Side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Conveying a story for film-goers is no easy feat. Fox tried this with their second FF movie (and to a much lesser extent the first one)…

There's a whole unit at ILM that's elevated lens flare into the Dark Arts category. The guy in charge is a Brit who lost a nose.

Personal taste varies, but First Class does carry the crowd. I liked it and enjoyed Singer's work in the first two, but his Superman film wasted a perfectly good opportunity. Why they gave Ratner the last X-Men film just boggles the mind. Ugh.

I am hoping they do the Full Retcon with Time Travel. Given the colossal eff-up of the Wolverine film and the third X-Men film, this is a good time to pass the torch and make a good film at the same time.

Maybe *he* is Tom Bombadil?