Serefina

5/7/11

Great list! I've got a couple more: Jade from Beyond Good and Evil, for being completely uncowed by the threats of the fear-based society she lives in. Bayonetta, for proving that even ridiculous, over-the-top sexuality can be fun and empowering when it doesn't take itself seriously in the slightest. And Nariko from…

4/29/11

The vast majority of female gamers are as uninterested in a Barbie game as their male counterparts. You're making the same mistake made by lots of game advertising executives, in which they think that grown women enjoy the same kinds of games as young girls. There's a world of difference between a Barbie game and a…

4/28/11

Not necessarily true. As a female gamer, I'm very used to playing as male characters. It's a fallacy to assume that gamers will only enjoy playing as someone exactly like themselves.

4/28/11

I feel like you and I had the same childhood. Did you also read a Wrinkle in Time and its sequels at an absurdly young age?

4/6/11

It's funny to me that you got so worked up over the possibility of a flame war that never happened.

4/1/11

I hope you're being sarcastic. A /sarcasm tag would help with that.

4/1/11

I don't know why this made me laugh so hard.

3/31/11

Regardless of whether or not it's messed up (and it is), there do indeed exist some men for whom any sexual attention from a woman brings a sense of validation. You can try to make gregorybutler feel like an ass if you want, but the reality is that a sense of gender is a weird thing and differs greatly between people.

3/28/11

I just wanted to come on and thank the author for including a positive example of gender relations in videogames. I clicked this link all ready to vent my girl-nerd rage about video games getting a bad rap - again - for a stupid aspect of a really stupid upcoming release. However, I really appreciate the author taking…

3/28/11

3/25/11

Bullshit. If I am going to write a review that disparages an entire subset of people, the very, very least I can do is take five seconds to look them up on Wikipedia. Movie critics are not above regular people, the idea that they LITERALLY don't have time to research the group they are specifically disparaging is…

3/24/11

This makes me so inexplicably happy.

3/16/11

"Humans first gained control of fire somewhere between 200,000 and 1.7 million years ago."

2/15/11

These are all fabulous ideas that I would be very happy with. Really, I'm just hoping that it's set in ANY time other than WWII era, which was an idea that the developers were bandying about a few years ago.

2/13/11

Yeah, no. These women are all gorgeous. It's probably because only attractive people would opt to have their picture taken for this study.

2/7/11

4000? I have a feeling that humans have been playing with toys a lot longer than that. 4000 years ago, the Sumerian civilization had already been around for like 2000 years, and that's just one example.

2/5/11

@RagingBull: Honestly, it's a different and, in my opinion, worse punishment than getting spanked. With a spanking, yeah, it sucks, but the pain is over quickly and you can move on with your life. With this, the traumatic memories and humiliation on a public stage will linger on for the rest of their adult lives. Not…

2/5/11

@AdmiralRupert: Okay, didn't mean to sound so accusatory. It just makes me angry that this is indeed the accepted viewpoint of mainstream society. You'd never hear someone claiming that "movie watchers are morons". Our industry and our culture need to grow up, are trying to grow up, and stupid, obnoxious people like…

2/5/11

Here's an idea: relax your outrageous immigration policies. There are third-generation immigrants living there that still aren't citizens, and none of their children or grandchildren probably will be either until Japan changes that blatantly xenophobic policy.

2/5/11

@newbrite: Ah, you're probably right. I should have known better than to interpret that literally.