Well, if the designers were aware of the aforementioned examples then yes, maybe it's as simple as, "hey we need to have a female character in our war-game SOMEwhere, where's the best spot to put her? Oh hey, let's make her a sniper. Women have actually done that IRL." I don't know for sure, but I don't think ANY of…

I'm just saying there's real-world inspiration for that particular stereotype, and real world examples of said stereotype, and provided examples of such. (Dr. Ruth Westheimer really was a sniper in the Israeli Army, you know.) I'm just saying WHY the female sniper trope exists & where it probably came from & why it's…

Well, regarding the female sniper trope, it exists partially because of stereotyping but partly because (a) there IS historical precedent (The Russian Army in WWII being a big one...The Israeli Army being another—Dr Ruth was a Sniper, after all!) and (b) women tend to have superior concentration & hand-eye…

2. can we add Gus Johnson to the list, just because he's such a good & exciting (& criminally underrated) play-by-play guy)

4) Don't forget about PAPI!!!! I love Papi on Highly Questionable. Papi might be my favorite current TV personality (and this includes ALL TV.) I kinda dig Bomani Jones too. Dan LeBatard is ok most of the time, tho he gets a bit self-righteous as well, and often has a hard time justifying his self-righteousness.

Hear hear, LaGrulla. I couldn't say it any better myself. If anything, it's FAR more productive to make folks feel less shitty about their technical ignorance than to make them feel stupid. I'll straight up give my customer an example of something I'm terrible with (smartphone keyboards being a common go-to…

I work for a Fortune 500 tech company myself and even though I COULD post similar comments as Bob & Frank, I too would surely be fired or at least reprimanded. If MS is ANYTHING like my company (and it probably is) then these employees should have known this could happen. It's part of the deal that we as employees…

Well, you can generally get more for you dollar in Montana simply because we have no sales tax. Food & gas prices are generally on par with most of the country. Rent can really cheap in small towns & can kinda suck some areas. Low rent is somewhat offset by gas consumption due to how much most Montanans have to…

Just to throw a monkey wrench into your theory, Montana is one of the least obese states (or THE least obese according to another recent study http://www.gallup.com/poll/167642/mi… but whatever) and ALSO a rather poor state as well (we're 14th in poverty rates, just a tad better than Georgia, NY & Kentucky) according…

Does anyone remember how Sony lost (or settled...) a class action lawsuit regarding the earlier PS2 models with bunk disk drives? (models pre-39000 as I recall) WAAAAAAY at the bottom of the below-linked webpage is the info regarding the disk read error lawsuit. I got a 100% free repair & shipping to & fro, which I…

theory without evidence = theory
theory WITH evidence = fact

The Citadel DLC might just be my favorite DLC for any game ever made...and there is not an ounce of hyperbole in that statement. You get to see Liara drunk! Also: come on people, get over the ending already. Video game endings almost always suck. Endings to beloved TV series (BSG...Lost...) almost always suck,…

Idk, some of those TI graphing calculators were rather beastly, and even back in high school (early 90s!) classmates of mine were coming up with all sorts of games on them. Tetris & PacMan were playable on those things back then. I bet Doom wasn't quite as difficult as it might initially seem.

Does anyone else keep their side panel off because they're paranoid that something will go wrong if they finally close up the case completely? Even after like, 6 months?!? (On the bright side, it sure helps with cooling! Hehe)

This article conveniently glosses over the A#1 reason folks, including me, are down on Origins: GAMEPLAY!!! The combo timing changes are incredibly frustrating and combat itself can be glitchy as all get out. Sometimes Bats continues his combo by leaping all the way across the screen and punches the dude with the…

well it wouldn't be the first time...you could argue playing Joan Jett is kinda sorta like playing a less sex-addicty Shane... maybe? >.>

I knew full well Kristen Stewart was in The Runaways, but I didn't put 2+2 together & realize she was Joan Jett until after the movie when watching some of the DVD extras. She really became a Joan Jett clone for that movie. So yeah, Twilight sucks but can we at LEAST put the KS hate in context here by saying she was…

Lol....I learned to drive stick in a late 60's or early 70's International Grain Truck. It had an 8-speed transmission as I recall, with one of those levers attached to the shifter that you had to pull on before you could shift from 4th to 5th gear. I hated that transmission. It also had one of those trucker air…

No, definitely didn't play it enough to get a gun sword. I struggled to engage with that game...I'm don't remember even making it to disc 2. For whatever reason, the ONLY game in which I can handle RE style tank controls is RE itself, and even then only barely. I could never tolerate it in Tomb Raider & I certainly…

as long as they stick with the original game & keep away from the Resident Evil knockoff that was Parasite Eve II. Parasite Eve II kinda pissed me off a little bit.