I believe that you're thinking about Mass Effect. In Dragon Age, it's not magnets that cause everyone's weapons to stick to their backs without sheathes or straps. It's magic!

Unless she died on the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2, of course.

There was a time when many US legal observers seriously believed that worker's compensation programs would expand to cover all injuries and essentially wipe out most of tort law. It actually did happen in some countries (see New Zealand's accident compensation system), but obviously did not happen in the US.

Right. But that why phrasing is key. You have to make sure you're focusing on yourself and not the other person. That's the key difference between "I'm sorry I offended you" and "I'm sorry that you're offended."

Dear TenaciousZack,

The "Gamergate" label is, and always has been, deeply intertwined with the harassment of women in gaming. To extent that anyone in the broader movement is interested in journalistic ethics, really the only option is to find a new banner to rally under and vigorously condemn those misogynistic pieces of shit who…

You're always going to be able to beat the custom PC builders on price if you're willing to assemble your own PC, though it might be difficult getting a case quite as elegant as a Bolt II. What you're paying for with a company like Digital Storm is assembly, testing, and warranty. Whether that's a good deal depends on…

While there are a bunch of case manufacturers out there, Digital Storm's primary business is the building computer systems, rather than selling individual components. So they have a strong business interest in having a unique case design that can't be replicated by other builders (whether businesses or home builders).

It's an intentional nod.

This sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. Remember why scientists are hunting for new antibiotics in the first place - due to overuse, many bacteria are now immune to the antibiotics we've been using for the past 70 or so years. What happens in 70 years (or sooner) when a bunch of bacteria are now immune to one of…

Probably an exchange student. The Queen's Birthday is an official public holiday in much of the British Commonwealth.

This just in: Mike Fahey is a Dance With Rogues addict.

Learning a little empathy for women isn't the hard part. The hard part is unlearning all the fucked up social norms that suggest it's OK - or even admirable - to treat women as nothing more than sex objects.

Health insurance is a good example. Because of group discount rates, tax treatment, etc, an employer can often provide a better health insurance policy, cheaper, than if they simply gave the employee more money and the employee tried to buy one on the open market using after-tax pay.

Indeed it was - four year olds are essentially immune to criminal prosecution!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_o…

I once saw a Kotaku poster making the following arguments on the same day in two different threads:
1. Women who cosplay in highly sexualized costumes are "asking" to be sexually harassed, and
2. Women should stop complaining about excessively sexualized attire in video games and comics.

Sauron persuaded Celembrimbor to make nineteen Rings of Power, and had a hand in sixteen of the nineteen. Sauron then forged The One Ring in secret, designed to control all the other rings. When the Elves figured this out, Sauron attacked them, and tortured Celembrimbor to death to discover the location of the various…

...or, men could work on getting their decoding ability up to par, and reap the benefits of being able to more accurately gauge women's sexual interest. I'm not sure why you're so keen to put the entire burden on women here.

Your sense is incorrect. I have never had a problem with a man or woman believing that I was sexually interested when I was not. But that's far from surprising, as there's plenty of empirical evidence that women are, on average, both more accurate at decoding men's sexual interest than men are at decoding women's…

And I'm sure that the women in your life think you're very brave, too, the way you pick fights with "girly feminists" about what women should or should not do when caught off guard by a date's noxious behavior.