I agree with your post (and yes, as a game development professional I'm aware of Japanese game genres fetishizing rape and sexual violence) however it's much easier to cut segments of anime and eastern game genres out of my cultural consumption entirely. When I attend trade shows and fan events and spend all my time…

Eh this is the first one I could find - I was at PAX Prime this year and some major western game (Firefall I think?) featured a life-size statue of the female character and her armor left one leg and a butt cheek (plus 90% of both boobs) entirely exposed. It's definitely not just Japan.

It's a shitty mainstream game with a played-out theme/topic, big surprise that they go for shock and awe in their promotional strategy. I'm 1000x more offended by female "armor" that is clearly designed only for boner generation.

If you like her you gotta check her out on the Sarah Silverman Program, she is hilarious!

I instinctively started clawing at my hair and screaming "GET THEM OFF ME" upon viewing this image.

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LOL! Sorry for your frustrating experience. I only know this because I inherited a lovely female pet rat from my sister and at a later date decided to get a friend for her. I got another female from a pet store and it turned out that ratty #2 had been with her brothers (eewwww) a bit too long after maturing (to an…

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Male horses apparently also do not have nipples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipple

I honestly have no idea but this Wikipedia page has taught me that I am actually incorrect - horses (my favorite animal of all, in fact) also have no dude nips! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipple

Your post is really encouraging but I think the thing that is tripping up JumpUp! (not to speak for him/her) is that in the USA the situation you described in your first paragraph would leave most people thinking that the replacement worker essentially did replace the woman on leave, rendering her obsolete/useless…

Interesting (maybe) fact: rats are the only mammals with no nips on the males. It makes it extra-easy to sex new babies because even before you can check out their junk you can see 12 tiny nips on the girls and none on the boys. THE MORE YOU KNOW.

OMG twinsies, I was at Otago in Dunedin as well. I loved the south island but was lucky to get to travel all over the place on a backpacking spring break trip where we flew up to Auckland then pretty much went where adventure took us before returning to Dunedin. I hope more than many other hopes that I someday get to…

If you boil it down and assume that it's mostly metaphor and you are cutting and pasting photos in your mind I actually really like this. I feel like setting your mind to accomplish something has a lot to do with forcing yourself to think positively, and keeping inspirational images in the front of your mind (or…

I'm with you, a 2012 full of traveling including two whirlwind weekend trips between coasts has left me wondering the same thing. I think the best solution might be figuring out how to travel as a major part of life... like go to school abroad if you can? I had the opportunity to study abroad and chose to go to New…

I had to literally read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" out loud to myself occasionally to understand some of the words. It occurred to me long after finishing it that it would have been a great candidate for a book on tape. I don't have a problem with it but it certainly provides an extra challenge when reading it as…

Love your enthusiasm, I too am super-psyched and can't wait to see it. Ever seen the older book "Abyss" all about the creatures in the deepest depths of the ocean? I highly recommend it if not.

Hi Novibear, I'm the CM for Robot Rising. You actually can pick up all the different Components in storage lockers in the Complexes - we don't have any required items you can't get from grinding. You'll find commons, uncommons and rares in Complexes, and you can request common and uncommon ones from friends. Do you…

I think one thing that can make an unpaid internship totally worth it is you have good supervisors overseeing how you spend your time. I was an unpaid intern for 6 months at a creative ad agency, then got hired part-time with an hourly wage. I ended up getting laid off with a big wave of part-time cuts and actually…

The linked article says that the friend of Cody Saltsman got his girlfriend to convince Jane Doe to join the partying, and that she got date-rape-drugged most likely in the car on the way to the first party. So it does sound pretty explicitly to me like she wouldn't have come except for the pressing of a female…

Okay, my bad, I shouldn't have said it doesn't exist. However by your own definition Katie should have used disorganized in her article, and she did end up swapping it.