I wouldn’t say the numbers are tilted. The problem is the results are so drastic that there is no normalization. Its like rolling Save vs Death every single turn. It wouldn’t be so ridiculous if there were some way to deal with it. The developers apparently intended you to be try to run around and flank enemies and so…

The problem is, in this case the “strategy” is to drag your team as slowly as possible across the map. They put the timers in to “fix” this, but the problem is the way that aliens are discovered. They always get a free turn to run (that part is potentially fine). However, what is devestating to the game play is that…

The real problem is that the player team is not reset to blue when they discover enemies. That is why you have to slowly drag ass across empty battlefields, because while you could end a turn with no moves left, enemies never do. Its a glaring flaw in the design and easily fixed if they just reset your full moves…

This particular mechanic simply kills the game for me. I’m ok with aliens getting a “free” turn, the problem is the player is not reset to “blue” when this happens. This results in the player possibly being caught in a situation where no units have any moves left and the enemies get to attack you right away. It’s the…

This game, if it is anything like the the previous installment, basically begs for save scumming. I understand there is an “ironman” mode and I can’t imagine how people put themselves thru it. The way this game is set up, the only way to move forward is slooooowly dragging your team step by step so you can have max…

It's certainly an open question.

There's a ton of info missing in this story. I think we need to understand that the County Club in NOLA is a brightly lit, modestly roomy area with excellent visibility and lots of people around. It is also a former gay male club that was gentrified by straight people as recently as…

This one is extremely iffy. A huge boost in sugary carbohydrates most definitely gives you more immediate energy. They are just really harping on the word "hyperactive" here. A "hyperactive" person may not be hyperactive just because of sugar. But eating a lot of sugar will make you have more immediate energy. This is…

We have such a large number of people in prison because supporting the "War on Drugs" was the equivalent of hashtag activism before there were hashtags. Let us not forget that is our Liberal brothers and sisters who started the temperance movement in the first place, in the belief that the real problem was drugs and…

I think... actually, I am sure, that this is the stupidest thing I've ever read.

In fairness, there are "Cool Girls" in lesbian relationships. And variations in straight and gay/bi guys as well. The book character is kind of a self-centered psychopath so her failure to realize this isn't surprising, but we should.

I have a pretty good idea why you are responding. It's because you want to participate in a stupid fight. The reason you posted the article in the first place, so you could have some kind of way to keep up a conflict about how much worse bisexual people have it and discount ways in which other people also have sucky…

I have no idea why bisexuals would perform worse in metrics, or what the threshold for "bisexual" used in this study was. It is not even clear to me whether I would qualify as "gay" or "bisexual" according to such stratification. Regardless, if I had to guess, bisexuals do worse in matters of mental health primarily…

Well I read the report and my overall interpretation is that LGB organizations should do a better job advocating for B rather than everyone getting their own separate funding. There are some complex historical reasons for the current state of affairs, in particular the central mark of criticism against same sex…

I'm not trying to troll, but I am still confused about what a "bisexual specific issue" even is and how you could possibly separate that funding from same-sex support.

I find these responses hilarious to read, mainly because there are in fact places in the world where there is not a white majority. And no, these places are not the havens of progressive bliss and equal opportunity the racists on this board would like to pretend they are.

American provincialism is the main…

The main lesson from this movie is that the state of superhero films is so bleak and the audience so captive that films can make millions trading on three things: 1) nostalgia for old music, 2) rendered "epic" sky battles that feel like video game cut scenes, and 3) plots so slack jawed that the creators of Mac and Me…

I don't want you around my kids.

A lot of replies, some good some bad, but few people seem to have picked up on one particular reason there is less diversity in term of gender: as characters, only men are expendable.

Picture a movie where two male characters are arguing. The male leads insults a secondary character. The secondary character punches the…

Unfortunately that article only underlines many of the points I've made, including the assertion that advocates' focus on same sex marriage somehow harmed trans people. It actually seems to be saying that because of pursuing same sex marriage, the HRC both turned its back on trans people and rankled Conservatives into…

Two different ENDA issues. The chief concrete criticism of the HRC regarding trans rights—and I mean "concrete" in the sense that is an actual action by the organization and not internet innuendo—is their (sort of) endorsement of a version of ENDA which omitted trans people from the list of protected classes, as part…