I’m not sure I follow. What does one’s preferred type of game have to do with a preference for diversity in a game? Is the implication here that diverse games and core games are mutually exclusive?

And regardless, you’re still wrong; there isn’t a finite cap on how many games can be created as long as the audience is…

And that’s her opinion, and you’re free to disagree, but 1) Anita isn’t some emperor of diversity, who gets to decide what is and isn’t acceptable, she’s just a critic. And 2) it’s still not “censorship” because in order to argue it is, you have to prove that Blizzard is making these decisions over fear of outrage…

I agree that more bodytypes are good and I’m glad you said that, but don’t fall into the “censorship” trap here. This has never been an argument about arbitrary censorship, this has been an argument about representation leading to broader engagement by more players.

The truth is, video games as a whole are a great…

“parody is supposed to be anything that mocks or has a very stark contrast to the original content”

AFAIK, the court has still never actually ruled clearly on what qualifies as protected satire, so I don’t think you can say this with much confidence. You can say that typically the courts protect obvious parody, but…

Telling people how to (or how not to) grieve: don’t do it, man. And don’t tell people to get over their grief “sooner rather than later.” You’re not them. Hell, you don’t even know them. You don’t get to dictate those things about them.

Yeah.

This isn’t “server architecture”, it has nothing to do with how many people it can support, this is application architecture we’re talking about. Games designed to be played on hosted, developer-owned servers are coded in a way that spreads out the components for the application, i.e. it doesn’t take just one server,…

You don’t get the same multiplayer component unfortunately, but if you enjoy fun character interaction with Marvel heroes, I’ve been extremely surprised by how much I’ve been enjoying Avengers Academy for the last few months. The writing in that game makes me laugh out loud (intentionally) way more often than I…

There’s no way you can just set up and run a F2P game on a local server and have it work without heavily modifying the code. These aren’t standalone games like the original Counter-Strike, where everything about the game can be hosted on a single server. Things like logins and backups and countless other…

The only good thing about Craig Kilborn’s Late Late Show was that Morrissey was on it about once a week.

Financial concerns are definitely valid. But for part-time volunteering/working there are lots of people looking for after-school tutors who are willing to work with people with special needs. It’s a great way to get your foot in the door and make a difference. There are sites like this one:
https://www.care.com/specia…

We’ve never lived in that society. There’s never been a time where humanity was magically good to one another as a general standard. That’s the whole point of society in the first place: to collectively work towards that ideal society, and that’s why highlighting this kind of behavior is good and essential.

MediocreMike: You absolutely should. The special needs world needs more people like you, seriously. I worked with people with autism for 4 years and it was the most important and transformative period in my adult life. It’s really hard work, but you get to change people in a good way and they also change you in a good…

You’re free to disagree, but just listing good comics with one writer isn’t really relevant to making your point. You’re just listing comics. Again: including things like Sandman in the definition of “run” makes the definition so broad as to be useless. At that point you’re just saying “any comic book written for…

You’re missing the point of this entire exercise by zeroing in on an extremely literal interpretation of the conditions. Your interpretation of the definition of “run” is incorrectly broad. He may not have specified what a “run” is as carefully as you think he should have, but it does not change the definition of what…

Yeah I mean, Gaiman’s Sandman isn’t a “run”, it’s a series. “Runs” refer to a period where a writer takes someone else’s character, typically an established character, and writes one or more arcs for that character for an extended period. Including an entire series, like Sandman, kind of eliminates the point of the…

This is awesome. My first MMO guild (this was in the pre-voice chat days) was predominantly made up of players with impaired vision of some kind. I actually had no idea for the first few months of playing with them, until they started talking about screenreader software and I asked them what they were talking about,…

Wow, you must know a lot of extremely sophisticated 8 year olds.

Wow, this was a really bad attempt at whatever it was you were trying to do.

haha you sounded like you were saying something in earnest but you were being sarcastic that whole time, that’s great. it’s funny how you just switched it up at the end, I was like whaaaaaat