Can we take a moment to recognize the fact that generalizing these substandard examples of supposed masculinity as “men” is as unfair as giving weight to the comments this vocal, ignorant minority makes against women? “Men” seeing women in gaming are not the problem. Bigots with poor self-esteem who seem to be men are…

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It must depend on the game and on who you meet. More social/cooperative games (like WoW and MMOs) are rumored to have that “say you’re a girl and you get free loot” tendency, although I’ve found it to be wildly unverified. My former WoW guild had a ratio of about 50/50 and most of the girls there didn’t really get…

This article paints such a vivid experience of watching the last decade in transformation and the duality of representation and exclusion that has come with a renewed interest in video game gender politics. It’s not one I experienced firsthand, but one that I was painfully forced to watch my gaming friends suffer…

“I have some quibbles with Rowling’s world building—how does magic work, exactly?”

Perhaps unpopular opinion: the Phoenix stuff ruined the X-Men. Increasingly the X-Men stories became about Jean Grey, Cyclops and Wolverine and their messy love triangle, intertwined with some cosmic sci-fi stuff. The Phoenix plotlines screw up the nature of Professor X, making him more of a mental interloper instead…

Ditto. I also loved the goon’s description of it as “war paint”. It’s all really grounded and understandable. Sometimes in the comics and cartoons, it’s difficult to see how these people can justify actually following the guy. In Dark Knight, you can see how his initial gang doesn’t really respect him and only sort-of…

I like the aesthetic they went for with Ledger’s, like he put it on a week ago and never took it off.

His stock is rising then?

Batman’s penis remains a solid investment opportunity.

I’ve no idea but the consistent obsession with finding a heterosexual male take in comics gets old.

I’m an immigration attorney.  They could have been paroled into the US and allowed to check into a hotel, or at least hang out at the airport.  This used to happen all the time.  

Why exactly should we be worried about this?

In addition to the points maryannsue brings up, they’ve had this ‘core gamers only’ mindset for all facets of the company...including business, financial, HR, etc. All areas that have absolutely nothing to do with actually designing the damn game. Even if we were to accept that only their narrow definition of ‘core…

If that’s true, then US law is wrong. You should never be able to be detained and questioned without access to legal counsel. They certainly shouldn’t be able to search your belongings and go through your phone without it.

Verizon also stated that the matter had “nothing to do with net neutrality or the current proceeding in court.”

I fucking hate this. If that rat bastard hadn’t won the election, we wouldn’t have Nazis walking the streets, we wouldn’t have children being kept in camps away from their parents, and lives being uprooted and destroyed, we wouldn’t have so many open displays of racism from all these random white people every other…

To further narrow down one stones role, I suggest:

And how come the force ghosts in Star Wars aren’t naked? It’s not like their clothing died.

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