Closer to six pounds. The Landsknechts used heavier swords, the Zweihander, but even that topped out at around 8 pounds.  

Iajutsu. Just as there is a difference between kendo, which is sports swording, and kenjutsu which is kill swording.

LOOK AT ALL THOSE MALE POWER FANTASIES.

No outcry that the main character is a fucking white male in Japan?! Kotaku, are you feeling okay?

“Men are never sexualized in video games!”
-Kotaku, Inception to Current.

Because of them fee fees.

So, you mean it’s the exact same kind of environment that happens if a guy walks into Victoria Secret or Forever 21? :)

So...the creator of a cartoon character explains why he drew them a certain way, why he gave them particular physical attributes, and you take it as personal slander toward people you know? I can only assume this outrage is a joke and not serious.

I’m hoping.

Please.

They sure do!

I...did not like WD2. It was fun, but it was not a good game. I had problems with it.

So, Marcus? Marcus could be cool, but he’s not. Marcus suffers the same flaw as many game protagonists do that aren’t written by Naughty Dog which is that he has the outline of a personality, but it’s so goddamn tepid. He gets…

If it were tired, it wouldn’t be popular. If it wasn’t popular it wouldn’t sell. Since it does, since it’s very common among both male and female artists, and persist to this day, I would say that it’s not tired, and in fact has had something of resurgence because of Eastern influences in fantasy art. :)

Except it obviously does fulfill its purpose? I mean, you can’t reasonably say it doesn’t. They are wearing it because it suits the needs of whatever the creators deemed appropriate or necessary. I can’t think of the last time I saw armor, “realistic” or no be in a situation where a character goes, “Man, I don’t…

I find sensible armor to be boring. Sensible armor is shit to look at. I’ve seen a lot of armor from tons of cultures, and only the really gaudy ceremonial stuff that you don’t wear into battle is any fun to look at. Most of the iconic armor that we see is fucking hella impractical. One thing I tend to notice, and…

I love it when people complain about the creation of armor and how it’s not realistic in a world with magic. Never fails! It’s beautiful. It’s like watching someone scream at the tide for being wet.

I love all fan service! From the creepy-creeping of Seishiro on Subaru in Tokyo Babylon to the more overt stuff you see in Monster Musume. It’s all good, and if something isn’t my cup of tea (which are very few things), I realize it IS the cup of tea for somebody else and they should have a fountain to drink from.

Ani…

Came here for the pearl-clutching, was not disappointed. 10/10

I do not hate. I am vexed, sometimes angered, if I let my baser nature get to me, but I do not hate. Hate is an ignorant response. I think there are very few people in the world who are inherently evil, they just do bad things, and often the reasons they do bad things can seem odd or foolish or even wrong. That is…

The language you use is telling, you know. You’ve spent time dealing with, confronting Gamergaters. I am absolutely sure you have. I am listening to you, that’s sort of the point. I’m listening to what you say, and how you say it. I know conviction when I hear it, and hate. Righteous hate is still hate, no matter…

Your every statement has implied that GG has some mystical pull with things they’ve done, and in the next breath denied it. For instance, you say they are no longer relevant, yet I’ve pointed to three sources that have specifically mentioned the movement in the last week. This is a movement that apparently “died”…

Yeah, I definitely see a trend here. So, there is this thing about people who are driven by a hate filled agenda, where whatever the targeted does, it somehow manages to do both things at once. Like racists who say Mexicans are lazy, and yet at the same time are stealing our jorbs! You’ve done that repeatedly...you…