Have you ever read Deadspin before?

That just brought back a flood of memories. Thanks, dude.

Get it now, and play it twice. It's worth it.

Go back to your original post. Then, try to write the same thing about a man. It will sound fucking DUMB. Then, ask yourself why. This is called introspection. If, while trying to convince the internet how totally not sexist you are, you manage to make people think the exact opposite, that is your failure as a…

Look, I'm sorry if you're feeling on the ropes here a little bit. I understood what your point was all along. I'm just not entirely sure you understood what it was. Your post, while well intentioned, came off as if you were granting women permission to "just be themselves". I made the comparison to male cosplayers,…

Women also don't need your permission to dress any way they please. While I appreciate your efforts to not embrace many of the "negative male attitudes" regarding women and their bodies, you might want to check some of your core assumptions. Is sexual promiscuity a trait of any of these characters being cosplayed? …

This is really cool to see. My wife and I got married a few years ago, and maintained separate households for several months. When our leases expired, we decided to buy a house together. We both have children (ages 10 and 13) from previous relationships, and we are both very independent. So we bought a duplex. The…

This is really cool to see. My wife and I got married a few years ago, and maintained separate households for several months. When our leases expired, we decided to buy a house together. We both have children (ages 10 and 13) from previous relationships, and we are both very independent. So we bought a duplex. The…

My wife and I had lived separately prior to getting married, so between two households, we didn't actually need anything. We asked that instead of giving us a gift, people simply make a contribution to their preferred charity.

I think that this is where being a parent is relevant. As the father of a 13 year old daughter myself, I can confidently say that the credentials of the person tasked with killing my child would be utterly meaningless. I think it's interesting that they created a scenario where you question the killing of one person,…

This is really helpful. As a longtime reader, first time (ish) contributor, I appreciate the effort to bring folks like me into the fold. The warm, squishy fold. The content on this site makes me hate the Internet less.

I've been reading this site for about 2 years, and only started participating in the threads in the last month or two. The things that you are asking to see less of are the same things that drew me into the conversation. If I want to read nuts and bolts game news and reviews, I read IGN. There is nothing wrong with…

Yeah, all of that sounds fucking gross. I really want to like the new xbox, but the reasons not to just keep pilling up. They flipped on the DRM, but it seems like they've really thrown their weight behind kinect.

I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting older, but the thought of having to wave my arms around and talk to my fucking xbox seems way more sininster than multi-national coperations or the government watching me and my kids play minecraft. I think it's creepy and dumb for sure, but I can't quite get mad about it. That…

I wouldn't have known any of that without reading your post. The backstory and parralels with our own history sound interesting. I just didn't care for the gameplay. Halo might have a convoluted story, but it's statisfying. Guns feel like they have weight, bullets feel like they have impact. Kilzone just made me…

It's not that I don't grasp your point, I just think you're wrong. You seem really fixated on the idea that women who cosplay should expect, or perhaps deserve some degree of disrespect. I don't really see the issue with having to ask someone before you take a picture of them regardless of what they are wearing. …

I get what you're trying to say, but the comparison is a little off. You (presumably) don't HAVE to go to a gay bar to enjoy your hobbies and the company of people that have similar interests as you. You also don't have to do it against a backdrop of objectification, harrassment, and assualt. You seem really…

"Women get sexually harrased because they're not smart enough to wear clothes that they won't be harrassed in" pretty much misses the entire point of the article. Shockingly, women are sexually harrassed, and assulted regardless of the clothes they are wearing. Why can't we make changing that a priority over telling…

I really don't care about the kinect features of the new xbox. My kids lost interest in kinect the first time around after a few months. I like achievements, and the controller looks great, but the DRM stuff turned me off. Now they've reversed some of the DRM policies, but it still feels kind of shady. Did I…

Thank you for that. I was waiting for someone to mention the boundries, or outright barriers there are to "whiteness". This entire conversation is rooted in the concept of racial purity, which as someone pointed out earlier is a social construct that is hundreds of years old, not biological. White people have a…