Agreed, we've only begun to scratch the surface of exploration - not only in distance but in time. The "great silence" may just mean we didn't listen at the right time or with the right instrument.

I'm sorry, but we still have WAY too little data to come to the conclusion that we're alone in the universe. Everything we've learned about the Universe up to now practically guarantees that life non-Earth based life exists The only problem is, of course, the great silence. But there are as many possible…

Why are we acting like this is only about her touching her 1 year old sister's vagina when she was 7 and not also about emotionally coercing her sister into sleeping in her bed and then masturbating while she sleeps? And about paying her sister in candy to give her long kisses on the lips? And about paying her sister…

Because Disney honestly had no idea how to market the franchise. If the title had been something like "John Carter of Mars" or "The Princess of Mars", they didn't bring up the fact that almost every story of the past century was inspired by the series, and if they hadn't plopped it right in the middle of March, when…

I don't care what anyone said. I liked that movie. I think it suffered from Disney's incompetent marketing more than anything else. Why weren't there John Carter toys? Why the F don't I have a white ape stuffed animal?!

You're a bit backwards, here. GG was created specifically *for* harassing women - at the time, it was specifically Zoe Quinn, although it quickly spread to 'everyone who GG sees as a "SJW" scumbag'. It was only later that others began to claim, "Nuuu, it's about game journalism! It's totally a righteous cause!" even…

Really surprised Frank Herbert didn't get a mention here! After the first 2-3 Dune books, stuff just starts getting really weird.

But Islam was around before terrorists. These people have always been with gamer-gate and they were likely one of the main driving forces behind its inception. I mean, nothing fuels a movement like some good old fashioned passionate hatred.

Gamergate might be taken a more seriously if they ditched the banner that all these trolls and psychopaths are hiding under with them. Jim Sterling has it right.

Pretty sure the studies say otherwise. Anonymity may have created internet culture, but the culture of being a massive douche can live on without anonymity. Facebook being on of the best examples.

Community self-curating is really the only thing that has any affect on behavior. Problem being that there's no such thing…

I think The Verge finally hit the nail on the head by calling out GamerGate for what it is: a right-wing movement. Adam Baldwin, an outspoken conservative, coining the hashtag that people use to harass women, or cite Breitbart.com and other right-wing pundits, or post videos of conservative think tanks like American…

...except it initially started as an attack on Zoe Quinn, and not the publication entire—but, shit, facts. Who cares about those in the face of infantile emotional distress?

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Well, I'm pretty sure the swordsman in Raider of the Lost Ark was constantly told that he was the best who ever was.

Six hundred sixty-five dollars. Jesus tap dancing Christ.

Can you explain why you feel Leave No Trace is dumb?

Trenching is not within the bounds of leave no trace backpacking.