The fact that this has generated so many OUTRAGED! replies kind of speaks to the problem this (awesome!) dad was trying to mitigate for his daughter.

The problem isn't that some video game narratives are about specific male characters, or that women have a problem playing as male characters in general - the problem is that almost ALL games have male protagonists. I doubt the dudes here who think it's no big deal would feel the same way if gender representation in…

I did! Every time I see him in something, my thought process is something like "SNYDER! and Quark! and the grumpy Nox from SG-1! I forgot how much I love you!"

Spooky. I'd love it if Sandal has a deeper role to play in DA3.

I was seriously just about to reply that it would highly depend on if his zombie hands were still clutching dinosaur toys. In that case, I would shout "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" (speaking to my heart, of course), and let him eat my brains.

Yeah, I really was half-convinced I made the whole thing up - it was over a decade before I met anyone else who remembered it. The last time I looked into buying a copy, it was $60 on ebay. Which is a shame, because I'd like to watch it again as an adult. I have no idea why it really scared me so much, but it did.

Holy shit, that is so completely true. And I don't think Rod Serling would be kind to him.

My personal list would also include The Hugga Bunch. THEY NEVER BLINK. And as a kid, I thought the grandmother was going to DIE if the kid didn't get that fruit, not just move to a retirement home. I couldn't remember the name of it for years, and it's apparently really hard to find a copy now, so there was also a…

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Women sometimes have mental illnesses and social anxieties, too (hi!). If some of the responses here come off as women saying "ugh, ALL MEN, JUST DON'T TALK TO ME, EVER," it's because there is a long, long, looooooooong, history of men using anything from verbal harassment to physical violence in order to punish…

No. I assume by your use of "us" you're aligning yourselves with whiny "nice guys"? I've met plenty of men who later become best friends, cool acquaintances, or just a nice memory of someone I had a great conversation and/or sex with that one time, precisely because they didn't treat me like a walking fleshlight. …

I love it when "best-selling" is used to stand in for "scientifically accurate" or "truthful." Everyone knows that Voldemort is the real threat.

"It's not that I think things I don't like are bad or even not good, but I just won't categorize them in those terms."

I loved her in SGU, so, needless to say, I am wicked excited about this.

I hope the jackballs at Sci-Fi are watching Rumpelstiltskin and kicking themselves in the ass. Regardless of how you feel about OUAT, Robert Carlyle is brilliant, and they lost him. Sucks to be them.

I'm with you, there. I think part of it is that many people don't get the chance to engage with difficult literature in a way that makes the challenge interesting and rewarding. Most of my English teachers in middle/high school (in the US) took a "shut up and take your medicine" approach to literature, and I can see…

I get what you're saying, with a caveat that is probably more semantic than anything else - I don't think someone needs to personally enjoy something in order to recognize that it's good. While I've got no interest in sitting through an opera or a baseball game or whatever, that doesn't mean I think they're not good.…

I thought that's why voting booths have curtains... have I been doing it wrong all this time? If I don't vote with my vagina, what else am I supposed to use? I'm so confused!

Same here - I love it, and it frustrates the hell out of me. That seems to be the general consensus among everyone I know who has read it, lol - once you pick it up, it will take years to finish, but you'll never escape it.

But you can show them off to friends! And look through them on your own and be all "Damn, I HAVE AWESOME STICKERS!" And not all stickers are appropriate for other surfaces. I had a friend who put a bunch of puffy stickers on his kiddie table chairs, and I was like "Yeah, bro, you've got cool stickers, but this is…