More to the point, why the frak is this being cross posted to io9?

No, this sounds perfectly reasonable. My son, at only 19 months, is already coordinated and coherent enough to pull this off, and so are most babies his age. Now, whether she was actually taking the cards because she wanted them but didn't want to pay for them? It's harder to say.

My son will often do things he's not…

A key element regarding item 8 was lost in the paraphrased list: sexualizing female enemies (specifically enemies) in games is a problem because the way we deal with enemies in games usually involves violence. From what I've read and heard Sarkeesian say, it's not the sexualization of female characters per se that she…

All of these things are fair and rational requests to make. Can't see any reason anyone would have a problem with any of them.

Why is the entire article about a game that is NOT a board game, but the headline mentions boardgames? Very few actual boardgames have this level of vague fudginess to them - this is miniatures war-gaming with elements of roleplaying -whole different thing. i love boardgames - an infinitely superior hobby to…

I've felt the same way for a long time. They are "The Absolute Worst Generation".

Yeah, if your take on your adult children telling you why they're upset is "they open their mouths and all I hear is whomp whomp whomp" then I don't think /they're/ the problem.

Vagnoni is 56, a few years older than I am (I'm at the boom's end.). When she writes about the ideas boomers have about how parents should be treated, I have to laugh. Boomers treated their parents like garbage. They had tons of advantages. The kind no group before or since had.

"They accuse me of being a terrible person, but won't elaborate about exactly what I've done. Well, sometimes they do, but it doesn't make sense, at least to me."

My father basically stopped all contact with me when I was 16 because my voice is too much like my mother's. If I saw him today, I'd bash his head in because he died 20 years ago and fuckin' zombies, man.

They're only losing the money if somebody else was willing to pay for it.

You bought an airline ticket with a seat number. Now sit there. This isn't a bus.

This probably isn't the place for this discussion at all, but from one massive Star Trek fan to another, I thought the first JJ Star Trek movie was great. And frankly, though The Next Generation remains one of my all time favorite shows, the TNG films (all of them, sorry) were far worse, both as individual films, and…

Agreed, I feel like I'm owed a story about some college student masturbating all over town now.

I saw Insane Masturbatory Rampage open for Slayer in '92.

Well, if you want to get super-pedantic, he went on an insane rampage, was apprehended, and then masturbated, so the rampage itself was not masturbatory at all according to the reports.

I can't agree with you more, Yannick.

I definitely have to agree with this one. There are some games out there (even some very good ones) that are just a real slog to get through. I enjoyed Half Life 2 quite a bit when I played it, but I think I made it about halfway through the game before I reached a point where I just decided that I had enough,…

Absofuckinglutely.