Your words will likely fall on deaf ears. Patricia uses the word rape pretty liberally as a smoking gun against men. I left my piece as well, but her past articles have me feeling like she's more sexist than anyone she accuses of such.

The thing is, we've all been wronged by people of whatever sex we're attracted to; If you strive for love, it's going to happen. Equating a broken heart to rape makes her vastly more at fault, to me, than him for making such a slanderous and potentially life-ruining accusation against him. If he truly did rape her, he…

I think it speaks tomes about the actual statistics of fandom and nerd culture. If you have to rely on brand recognition to make less oft' used groups top sellers, I think that points more to how statistically balanced representation is. I know there are plenty of female, black, ect. fans around, but if you have to…

I was in gifted for a bit, but it definitely wasn't because of my math skills. If I remember correctly, my math grade was what got me kicked out. I beat 999 without a guide (mostly), so who's laughing now, huh gifted people?

I definitely used a guide. I prided myself in solving the puzzles without them, but I'm notoriously bad at math. You can imagine my surprise when, just as I'm caught up in the heat (literally) of saving Akane, I'm slapped with a math game I've never played. I actually tried to teach myself the rules through…

999 blew my mind to oblivion. I cried during the final sequence (and not just because of the sudoku, though it was a large part). VLR, though awesome in its own right, just seemed so caught up in how that it forgot why.

Well, he's supposedly working on a secret project, so, fingers crossed (and numerous other appendages).

As a Zero Escape fan, I went into the first Danganronpa aware of the comparisons that are made. I kept saying "It can't possibly be as good." I was wrong. Danganronpa feels more pointed. Don't get me wrong, I love Zero Escape and it's characters, but after Virtue's last reward I found myself feeling less concerned…

I don't have a problem with people asking the questions, I just don't like how they react when they don't get the answer they want down to the T. If you are respectfully asking questions, then ask away.

Is it bad that I found myself wanting to give a fictional character a piece of my mind?

I understand what you are saying, but my point is that taking their nervousness as some underlying problem is misguided. Of course they are going to be nervous. They can't even just say "This is the game we wanted to make," without fearing a PR fiasco. If a company promised you that they would have ethnic characters,…

Your pessimism over the idea of race is noted, though I do not agree. I see people being different as a good thing. A world devoid of race might be easier, but not nearly as fulfilling or enriching. We likely will not reach a point of agreement, so I'll leave you at that.

I just recently started buying from GameStop again due to a friend working there showing me a less negative face for it. If they do this, I don't know that I'll be sticking around.

I find that a sad way to view it. Having a race doesn't have to be negative. They show the different ways that the human race has developed over the millennia. We wouldn't have different arts, stories, and viewpoints to share if it weren't for race. To say that race is some illusion is a cop out because you'd rather…

The reason most of them are silent isn't because there is some sort of hidden agenda (though that may be the case with some). As I've told others, it's natural to write from what you most know, and what is more familiar and close to home than your own race. It nearly always is a subconscious thing. They can't even…

It doesn't have to be a deliberate action. If you take people from different nationalities and ask them to write a story, the main character is probably going to be of the same race as the writer, not all of the time, but most of the time. It's a simple matter of what you are majorly exposed to and what resonates with…

Either one extreme or the other, eh? It can't possibly be that most of the people I've dealt with on a personal level happen to be white, and so, therefore I tend to think mainly as a white. It's like I have a race or something. Huh, go figure.

Computer sciences are not actually very well implemented into any public school, as far as I can tell. I was constantly reminded of the fact that I, with my limited knowledge, still generally knew more about computers from playing with them than the teachers who taught me. Game design is an out-of-the-way career for…

It's not that I think that we should prevent diversity, it's just that most people that I've seen on this site and a few other places seem not to have put much thought into where this diversity will come from. There's beginning to be a constant stream of "Groan....another white protagonist," and decrees that a game is…

My cat usually just gets jealous. Considering he's pure lard, his fancies can be more obstructing than most cats.