Except that with the blurred/distorted straight lines in the background, this has pretty clearly been photoshopped to look this way. She's also turned at an angle to the camera to create the illusion of more curvature than there would be if you saw her from a straight side profile, while the comic artists often draw a…

Uh... if I go to Wikipedia, I'm sure I can name even more than that! ...I still won't think any of them are good, however, so I'm not sure what your point was.

I bought an N64 for $15 after the Cube came out, just to play the three good games on it (which came free with the system). I can't say I would've been pleased to spend more than that.

Yeah my love was waning by the time Diablo 3 was released with the complete lack of innovation from them, and Diablo 3 whatever little was left.

I think it's just your garden variety lack of empathy for experiences you yourself will never have to go through. I've heard similarly chilling statements from men about abortion/bodily autonomy. But.... I grew up with brothers and plenty of close male friends and I can't help but share some of the horror at the…

Yeah this is the one point I can't get my head around. It makes sense in nations/states where abortion is difficult or illegal to obtain, but otherwise? There has to be some method through which men can opt out of parenting completely if they aren't ready/would cause them financial hardship, if women can. I also think…

Absolutely confirm. I only do it with people I don't know well/care about because not doing it is a fast and sure way to become a social pariah.

That's a good point. Sexism: shitty for everyone.

But most sports don't control for size, and that size makes men dominant. For example, in the sport I did for years - competitive swimming - men at the elite level are only 10% faster than women, but they're more than 10% larger, and that size difference is all muscle. When chatting with elite male swimmers about how…

Lol what is even this comment? Where did I say I was "proud"? It's just a fact; I fought boys in grade school, and sometimes won. And fighting a man my own size, strength, and level of training? In a sporting bout with strict regulations? Sure, why not. Why wouldn't I?

But what his lovers want, increasingly, as their cohort grows older — a more permanent commitment — he can afford to persistently withhold, feeling guilty but not that guilty about doing so.

One thing I learned from fighting boys (and sometimes winning) in grade school, is that you never really get to "win". If you lose, you lose, and that's just proof of biological fiat/girls suck forever/etc. If you win, he'll say he "wasn't fighting seriously - he didn't want to hurt a girl" and that will be proof of…

Since we're all sharing, I buy Mr. Cat a video game. I have a terrible track record of picking out one he'll like, so I pick one I know I'll like so at least someone will be playing it. He does the same thing. Some years, we love each other's gifts. Other years, we both wind up playing the one we bought, lol.

Wow! You sound like you may have just spoken to, if not dated successfully, real life women before!

This was, explicitly, about "getting it", i.e. understanding someone's preference, not about "feeling it's acceptable".

Me either. It matters to me about as much as a man's toe size. He's either got a hot fact and body or he doesn't. An ugly tall guy is far less attractive to me than a short hot guy. And at 5'11" I've walked the walk and dated plenty of men shorter than me, too (Mr. Cat is exactly my height, which means I'm taller in…

Wow, that looked... underwhelming. Here's hoping they mined the most hackneyed dialogue out of the game for the trailer and it isn't all like that.

The new anti-seller policies are the worst. Now you have absolutely no recourse if the buyer screws you, either - not only can you not leave negative feedback, buyers can make their feedback private so you can't even leave them positive feedback with information on how they screwed you.

Anybody have any recent anime recs for shows that don't prominently feature and schoolkids/teenagers? I feel I've watched too many of those of late and now that I'm on the hunt for other fare I can't seem to find anything.