I think her abilities are sufficiently interesting. A cannon? A gravity trap? The gravity spells in DA 2 were the only thing that made the game playable for me sometimes, and I feel those tricks could be terrifically fun in a shooter.

X-Com Enemy Within on mobile, Long War at home, and maybe I'll give the Metroid Prine trilogy another shot - but it's been really difficult attempting to get comfortable with the nunchuk control scheme, I wish I could just use a dual-stick.

They do, and plenty of people buy them. If you can't see the feminist influences and inclinations in popular games from publishers like BioWare or Square Enix games, you're as blind as Sarkeesian. Feminism has positively affected game storytelling for a long time in a lot of ways. If Sarkeesian is asking too much -…

Don't those shows always include a homicide before the first commercial? 'Stalkers' seems like the safer fit.

I susoect that the cultural artifacts you connect to GSA are not automatically connected to GSA - fathers have plenty of non-prurient cultural reasons for giving suitors a hard time. certainly there are cases where sex is a part of or the whole motive for the behavior though.

The crime of targeting and killing an abortion doctor because of your political disagreements fits with terrorism in the Mirriam Webster dictionary. This kind of crime is different - they're both clearly hate crimes, but the goals are different: The guy who killed George Tiller wanted '(iii) to affect the conduct of a…

Eh, it's a pretty loose interpretation of the definition used by the FBI, but it fits the FBI's definition of domestic terrorism: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/inves… "Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population". The FBI can totally call this terrorism if they want in.

It is still a stretch, so I…

I used to think true love was the scariest thing I might encounter in my lifetime.

Alternatively, perhaps since we know by now that people with an active twitch or youtube presence are frequent targets of swatting, they could introduce themselves to the cops and give them fair warning that this type of 'prank' may well happen. If all relevant parties are aware of the potential danger, some swattings…

While emotionally satisfying, the punishment doesn't mean s*** to criminals or potential criminals. They worry chiefly over whether they'll get caught, not over sentencing. While the FCC looks at recategorizing the internet, hopefully they will take another look at anonymity.

quantity versus quality, they're hard to compare.

Anecdotally, yes. From Steven Pinker's citation in "The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" of Donald Black's 'Crime as Social Control' - a scholarly article on how much of what we call crime is self-help justice, where the perpetrator lacks confidence in the authorities dishing out reliable and…

a significant subset of homicides are about self-help justice gone too far. People who moralize overmuch in the heat of the moment may come to their senses after, and have been known to wait patiently for the authorities.

Sentencing can have less weight in the calculus of a criminal's mind than the certitude of punishment. Improve law enforcment tools for tracking down and arresting swatters, and you'll see a real reduction in swattage. Life imprisonment's a joke of no one gets sentenced.

Point is moot, as I forgot that healthy adult minds distinguish between fake murder films and real ones.

Before I turned on the gif, I was afraid we had crossed a cultural line I'd rather we not cross. And then I remembered that snuff gifs are older than the internet, thanks to all the gory head explosion / melting scenes from 80s movies...

oh dear. Now I have to see if my Lenovo Y50 can run this and be inevitably dissapointed.

In the last ongoing series, he turned a city into an Iron Man suit.

Wish granted continually, generation after generation, except on social media like but not limited to twitter and reddit.

Huh. Well, there's a sensible answer as to why it shouldn't be done on Kinja. We aught to keep to the agreements we sign when creating an identity here. But I'm glad ottowan showed how easy it is to accomplish, too. I hear in France there's a site that outs folks for sexist / demeaning / harmful behavior IRL - perhaps…