"Maybe it's a psychological thrill from doing something in public?"

Bear in mind, you're probably travelling in different circles than she is. You're more likely to run into it in certain neighborhoods like bar districts and stuff. Or around certain types of people, particularly less educated ones with lots of young-ish men loitering around.

Not surprising actually. Tolkien borrowed from Finnish heavily in constructing the Elvish language.

I would actually prefer a microtransaction. The problem is that the payment models for console games are so pants-on-head retarded that small transactions of money also end up being investments of time. Just give me a goddamn steam-wallet and let me put money on it.

100% behind this. I have an addendum though. I really loved the episodic structure of "Alan Wake." The game itself ran a little long because the gameplay got stale after a while. But being structured with natural chapter breaks (and maybe with an option for "previously on. . ." recaps) gives the game itself a feeling…

It's pretty much that. The selection bias for paler skin wasn't quite as ruthless for them as it was for the people living up near the arctic.

The prevailing hypothesis is that it was mostly a very rapid and pronounced culling of anyone deficient in Vitamin D. Lack of vitamin D during development leads to narrower hips which leads to complications in child-birth (that often end up killing mother and child both). The groups of people who developed in…

I completely agree with you. The thing is that on top of having really fucked up gender issues, we also have a profoundly fucked up drinking culture in our country. I love drinking as do just about all of my friends. But we all enjoy drinking more than we enjoy getting drunk.

I think the article kind of misses one of the main points which is that girls just tend to do friendship differently than guys do.

I'm a man and was being assaulted by another man. The same conditioning that keeps me from trying to do grievous harm to another man works doubly for women. If I actually felt seriously threatened by the other guy it might have gone differently, it's hard to say. But the general point is that we're conditioned not to…

"it's the men that are the rapist (for the most part)"

The easiest way for me to think about it is to analogize it to theft. We have the serious concept of theft people have in their heads where we think of it as sort of a heist. You sneak around looking for something of value and you take it. That one is what pops into peoples' minds.

Asha is also a fairly normal name in India. It means "Hope." I think it's pretty common in South Africa too, but I'm not sure if it has the same origin there.

"Arya" is actually a fairly normal name in India. It's Sanskrit for "noble."

Well. Even if we grant them the existence of eezo, the idea that eezo randomly glomps onto lifeforms and gives them magic biotic powers is far fetched. MAYBE if they're on a planet where eezo is part of the biosphere some lifeforms might evolve to be able to manipulate mass effect fields. But even that's a maybe.

Pumping milk out of a cow's teat to substitute for the mother's after age 2, however, is totally natural.

You're making a bottle of syrup. You drizzle very small amounts of it on anything you're eating. It's not actually that much sugar at all.

The neckbeards are resentful about everyone though. Women? Check. People who are athletic? Check. People who studied outside the STEM fields? Check. People who are gainfully employed and well paid. People who use Apple products. People who are gregarious and have social skills. People who go to the gym. People who…

I honestly think it probably is a far bigger deal for most women though. Speaking in generalities Men tend to be a lot less specific about what they're looking for and are more willing to try dating among different races, body types, and personality types.

My guess is that those aren't the sorts of limits they're talking about. My money is that it's more along the lines of "He's 5'8" and your minimum is 6'0"."