Anyone else see, after Obama goes off on climate change, Laverne Cox standing up in the audience like OH SNAP? Amazing! My fave moment of the whole night.

I loved your Mantis clip. As kids we would wait for the egg sacs to hatch and watch 100-200 of those little guys march out. When they got larger you can sometimes get them to take a bug from you (we would get a bug with tweezers and extend it to the Mantis) and it kinda looks over at you for a moment or two and then…

And so now that the option to be paid for their hard work has come about they're supposed to be free because they always were?

Well aren't you coming off as massively entitled.

Or just pay people for the massive amounts of time they spent making things you enjoy?

The developers for Skyrim didn’t make the game completely from scratch. Even the Creation Engine used to create the game was based off of the Havok Engine, developed by not-Bethesda. They put in most of the work, sure, but everything was laid on top of an existing framework, the same as a cataclysmically large…

I absolutely adore the people saying modders aren’t on par with developers while there are actual developers saying that they are, like the tweet from Azrael up there.

Have they considered that by having ‘Paid’ mods it could be an incentive for modders to make... you know... *good* mods?

"regardless of age" is the part where I knew you were fucking psychotic.

All I got from this is that praying mantises are great pole dancers.

At the same time, playing CoD over a few beers in a tiny apartment does not generate entertainment. I agree with you to an extent.... I think the whole problem of 'nice guys' that are super hateful and bitter about women comes in no small part from assumptions made from TV and movies, but there is going to be some…

True, and totally fair. But he was still doxxed by 8Chan, if nothing else, and to me doxxing = harassment, a violation of a high level by internet standards, plain and simple. He can both be a predator and a victim simultaneously, these things aren't binary.

Well here's the thing about internet community bubbles. He found a group "comedy troupe" that he thought he could belong in, and probably got a lot of positive reinforcement within the group. It wasn't even about his viewers, because most of them were gamergaters who he (in the article above's explanation) was meant…

When you mentioned in this piece that he's a Mainer, as I am, I started to do a little digging around... and came up with this archived Boston Globe article that discusses 9 year-old Jan Rankowski's struggles with Asperger's Syndrome in Falmouth, Maine (the wealthiest suburb in Maine, just north of Portland. I work…

I think you're conflating the term "fact" with "debatable, nuanced topic that I feel strongly about." BabyGotFront doing the same thing. Not saying you're wrong about the content of your trigger induced vitriol, just that crafting such a black and white argument makes it hard to interface with any of your ideas.

If a naked human woman frequently approached a man and rubbed her genitals on him frequently, it's probably a sign of sexual attraction and interest.

Would you exercise the same compassion and thoughtful understanding to someone who, because of the exact same childhood experiences as Brenner, was sexually attracted to small children, or the elderly and enfeebled? If so, you're still an unapologetic opportunist, but at least you know what you are.

I'd be happy to lose your follow

i think you guys are misunderstanding. it was very clear to me that he interpreted the dolphin's prolonged interactions with him as demonstrations of consent. that doesn't mean that i don't personally question that idea of consent, because i personally do not think animals can consent to humans, nor do i think consent…

I thought it was exceedingly fair-minded. I came to this article expecting something ridiculous and came away feeling rather somber.