This whole thing was fantastic, from the breakdown of the rhetorics of cleanliness all the way through to its assessment and projections of the way we treat Ebola. Best thing I've read anywhere on Gawker Media today.

I get this. I really do.

You don't think that if those comments were less easy to find it would be harder to argue for a culture that enables and tolerates that kind of thinking?

"Dehumanization: I mean, really? Feminists constantly say that #GamerGate people have "bad hygene," are "losers," are "fat white boys living in their moms basement." Dehumanization is by no means a tactic just limited to the #GamerGate people in this fight. The people rejecting GamerGate do that with just as much…

I can't wait until a white man does a project like this with as much publicity so we can watch them crack under the weight of indecision.

Right? The proper kind of counter-hashtag, if there must be one, to actually further the conversation and show you truly give a fuck about enabling the problems would be #YesMost____. #YesMostMen. #YesMostGamers. If you find yourself lumped in with a group whose public image you disagree with, stop distracting…

"A lot of these people complain about how they can't just enjoy games anymore."

Which is crazy, because why couldn't they just enjoy the fun aspects of the game while ignoring any socio-political messages it might have as they argue they've always done?

Also, dude. That's not "part of the article." That's a third-person bio, a journalism/journal standard from research to creative writing that accompanies the end of articles and includes some of the author's background and credentials.

It's not her neutrality in regards to this article. Here, she's obviously taking a hard, though I'd say pretty spot-on, stance. That was in regard to the process of her research, which is neutral, or as neutral as it can be, and peer-edited, to form the basis for the rest of her project.

I love that someone's most-used snark comment here actually went straight to a list clearly reflective of doubles! Yay!

You mean like stunted fedora-types posting under names like MartiniGuy?

I was thinking the same thing when I read that, but I realized:

1) I still wouldn't care when playing through Red/Blue, even if there were some weird competitive scene for them, because of the way DVs work and lack of breeding.

So, here's the thing about this movie:

I've never spent time looking/resetting/hatching for them, though I've gotten a few while breeding for IVs with the Masuda method (not what I was going for; just a nice side effect).

Word. It always struck me as weird, too. When Ruby and Sapphire came out, Game Freak was really hyping contests as one of the next big things in Pokemon. Like, an alternative to battling. It wasn't super robust, but once you got into it was fun, and it seemed reasonable to expect them to expand on it in future…

Contests circa Gen III, where it was its own little battle/strategy system to which you had to dedicate moves and stat setup, was cool. I really enjoyed that. I always ended up making a Regirock to sweep Tough and Beauty contests. In Gen IV onward, the contests and other sidegames became much less interesting…

This made me profoundly sad.

Also, that Mewtwo probably had a Gentle nature or something.

Oh. Underrepresented, I can see.

You spelled Mega Kangaskhan wrong.

Woah, no. Have you ever played online?