QUOTE | "Yes, our partners at @intel were flooded with complaints over a recent opinion piece, and they did pull an ad campaign." - Game developer website Gamasutra, explaining that Intel pulled an ad campaign from the site after a #GamerGate campaign complaining about Leigh Alexander's op-ed.

As with any event where you carry a purse and you go with men, you end up carrying all their crap in your purse.

Who are you talking about? Roegner is still a games designer. There's a mysterious tweet by someone else, that she RT'd, about someone listed only as "he" who should be fired. Who was this? What did he do? Was he fired because of Leigh Alexander, or is that a decision someone else made independently? I can't tell from…

Fake pockets are the devil.

Remember back in the glory days of the 1990s when men and women alike wore huge cargo pants with pockets all over the fucking place? Pockets on the arse, on the hips, on the knees. You didn't need a carry-on when flying because you had fucking pockets everywhere.

OMFG, two weeks ago there was an iPhone 6 story/review on Wired and I commented that even the new "regular" size was MUCH larger, and this was going to be a big problem once I got desperate for an upgrade because girlclothes pockets are so tiny.

I'll be honest that's always my first thought when one of these articles come up. It's almost instinctual, but as an adoptee, I understand acutely how flawed and commercialized used the adoption process as become. It does drive me batshit though when I hear people say things like "I want my own kid" or "I couldn't…

Those are tweets, many of them tongue-in-cheek, all of them removed from their conversations and therefore their context.

Morons, though. She wasn't talking about the death of gaming, just the complete emptiness of "gamer" as an identity. It's a legitimate point of view and one I happen to share, and it's a big factor in preventing more people getting involved.

I've tried to explain to so many people how many discretionary goods are now actually cheaper than they used to be, but people never understand the concept of inflation.

Bag fees are just airlines making up for consumers chasing cheap airfares, plain and simple.

If your fancy clothes are uncomfortable, you are buying the wrong fancy clothes.

Yeah, to a point. If you bought access to all the things in some of these games you'd wind up paying the developers tens of thousands of dollars to make the game "as good" as something that goes for $60 without those transactions. So we have a very overpriced "service" that provides very little in the way of "value"…

Because when your kids are white, you can speak to them about the racial intolerance of others from a safe distance. But when your child is brown and you aren't and no one else is, it's going to be a much, much more painful lesson. The latter is something I would want to avoid if possible, at least early on. The…

Wow. That managed to put words in my mouth and be both intellectually dishonest as well as terribly condescending.

If it's not a current legal definition in his jurisidiction it should be. Whether it is or not is really immaterial to the broader point here: punishing him is a violation of the spirit of law, is ethically intolerable, morally repugnant, and discriminatory.

I don't even think they're all that rare. Just broken by frequent stonewalling and gaslighting. The older career teachers I knew that did try to come down on bullying always did so from the side. They picked their battles and were just as likely to put energy into supporting a bullied kid as to stop the actual…

I hate that I'm just posting comics today, but this is one of my favorites, and relevant I think

Is this the SIMS or some kind of historical game about the American expansion into the West?

This is BEAUTIFULLY edited. The creator should make full-length Sim features.