Ah! Thank you for this post. I would have missed this, since I’ve signed off again, presumably until the next Crisis tempts me back for a while. But I can’t miss out on an Oracle/Nightwing comic— they’re my DC OTP!

One of my friends mentioned that the earth is roughly spherical. That man was running right at the cop, hoping to take him from behind!

Well... I went to Japan on a McTeaching visa. The pay was low compared to that, but I'm not outgoing, so I doubt I'd have lasted more than a few days as a hostess. I had a STEM degree, so the pay was below what I could have made athome. I went for the same reasons kids backpack through Europe: the chance to see…

Well... at least they didn’t crown them prom queens and cover them with pigs blood?

The holocaust was instigated by jews! Hell, it was mostly a PR thing against the proud Aryan people! Think that’s an offensive thing to say? Well, so fucking what, I don’t give a damn about your jew-black-anti-man agenda!

Fair enough, I guess we just disagree on that. Rape is awful and murder is awful, of course, but there are many crimes that are physically non-violent yet are violent in other ways. I wouldn’t want to try to equate any two crimes, but he stole years of people’s lives. A teacher with this in her history will not be…

There’s a large number of crimes involved, though. Do serial rapists get fewer than that? (I hope not.)

Well. If you have a criminal in the mix who absconds with all the company’s money, it can all be shut down pretty quickly.

Gawker sites typically go with median income as middle class. It's easier to just go with this definition on their sites rather than insisting to people that the middle class has simply shrunk, with most formerly middle class people becoming... well, poor.

Might be better to sell the kids for a couple thousand. You know, make something of yourself, and give them the opportunities you couldn’t give them since you’re such a waste. And then someone deserving gets a brand new kid! It’s a win-win-win!

What the heck is it with pizza? Domino’s is Catholic. Papa John’s says health care for employees is too expensive because it would lead to a price increase of a quarter a pizza. This crazy place is afraid gay might rub off on her...

I think removing his name from everything (including box art that’s been around for a decade) is pretty clear.

It’s probably not even greenlit.

Do they really have enoug social workers to be talking to parents who let their kids play violent or sexual video games? I mean, I think it's a bad idea in general to have, say, a five year old playing Manhunt 2 or some Japanese porn game, but aren't all social services everywhere kind of slammed by assholes who hit…

Yeah, but when you consider that many of the people in games with that salary could leave the industry and easily make double that, the choice is really not financially in our best interests.

Yeah. Because avoiding processed grain products in favor of meats and vegetables is a bad thing.

I think it's an okay ballpark unless the game has a long tail, that is, many weeks or months consistently selling "low" numbers that add up to a lot of sales. In those cases, it gets off by a lot. A game I was involved in was pretty much correct on VG for the first month or two, and after that it looks like no one…

Huh. You know, I really thought that with the way the consoles sold, I wouldn't have to wait this gen for Bioware DLC. See, the thing is, if they make me I wait, I am much, much less likely to buy it. Because... well, mostly because I forget about it. It's not a 'oh how dare you' thing, just a 'oh, yeah, that...'…

Osaka gets so much less love, but I think it's better than Tokyo. I have such fond memories of Den-Den Town.

Really? Everyone I know seems to love going there. Just to hang out. I mean, sure, they have some delicious food in those cafeterias, but... yeah, I dunno. 'Let's go to Ikea' has never struck me as a crazy fun afternoon, though if someone's buying stuff, I'm happy to come and give my opinions.