And only one uses condoms, too. Clearly, tampering with reproduction is bad.

But if a tomato randomly mutated to have one (more) gene similar to those found in fish, that would be fine and dandy?

But why would it be unsafe? Under what mechanism or principle would it be less safe than, say, our heavily bred and modified bananas?

Neither fire nor the wheel was the invention that defined humanity—it was our genetic modification of wolves into dogs through selective breeding. Why is everyone suddenly scared of genetic modification now that we're doing it through methods other than breeding?

For some real fun, consider PC Gamer, which explicitly uses a school-style rating system—a 75 is average. Metacritic doesn't manipulate this number at all when putting PC Gamer's reviews alongside reviews for which a 5 is average.

Someone ask the Jezebel crowd whether Greeks qualify as a minority.

And the right fair trade lines, too. Some lines pass a lot of the money to growers, but other lines mostly pocket it and barely pay the growers any extra. (Overall, fair trade coffee growers make even less than regular growers.)

Have you ever tried reading Bachman's ratings on Politifact? She's completely bananas.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought article writers didn't get to make their own headlines.

I thought Kotaku didn't have a ban function, just a function to delete posts? That's why I heard you couldn't ban that guy who posts sexually explicit pictures of anthropomorphic horses.

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Bizarrely enough, I think that's actually a relic of chivalry. Even when they let a female character kill someone, they don't have the guts to have her kill women, because hitting women is bad and wrong. Badong.

I think "The Cave" essentially won that little metagame by converting into game format a common plot that film snobs tend to praise no matter how badly written and terribly performed it is. (Though "The Cave" actually did it better than half the movies that do that plot, so . . .)

As a rule, the less a game forces me to either read Gamefaqs or quit playing, the happier I am. (To be fair, "few hints" doesn't necessarily equate to "needlessly obtuse" if the game teaches you its internal logic through play, but I've given up on expecting the average game to perfectly balance difficulty with…

I remember this as "the scoliosis book", and I find it kind of weird everyone else remembers it as "the masturbation book". (I know there were other books in that age range that had WAY more masturbation and sexual references, most obviously The Chocolate War.)

I'll call David Cage as soon as he's done extracting his head from his rear.

If there's one reason not to play on Casual, it's the ending. Once I got a bunch of great characters who didn't give me a game-over if they did, I never bothered using the protagonist again until she was plot-required. She was underlevelled for the final battle, and died almost immediately. (I stopped playing rather…

I've heard it argued that "No Russian" was carefully calculated in its offensiveness—for instance, making the victims American might have offended American audiences too much.