I'm not really sure why you thought a reasonable response to being called alarmist would be to ramp up the hyperbole to eleven, but this conversation is getting dangerously recursive. Happy New Years and may you and yours keep enjoying the stuff you enjoy, whatever shape that may take.

No, this is not a realistic dissection, this is an over-extended analogy to the civil rights movement with such a disproportional comparison in scale, intent and action as to be almost entirely ridiculous. Your criticism would have fit if someone was announcing the Gays Only servers on WoW, or the Gays Only Xbox Live.…

My stake is that I don't think you're right. I think you're blowing the implications of this way out of proportions, and I don't think it will lead to anything particularly unpleasant at all. I don't think it's right to tell people they can't try things like this out of some kind of self-righteous, patronizing concern…

Obi-Wan used a special Force technique that made him one with the Force right when Vader hit him. That's what Yoda was talking about at the very end of Episode III.

Yes, I have understood that is your opinion. What I was wondering was if that was the only problem you had with GaymerCon or if there was something else as well.

Right, cool, but you're not actually answering the question. Is your problem with GaymerCon that it's only hurting the cause of homosexual gamers?

I honestly don't understand your attitude. You don't like the assholes, but you're aggressively pushing the idea that nobody should ever try to do anything about them, or to create alternate communities where they're not as prevalent. Because... why? Is it the segregation thing you're worried about? Is that what gets…

Yet you just proved me right by rattling off games that reinforced my statement.

So aside from that possibly being a case of 2012 vs 1940s donuts, how on earth does that panel suggest all the other things you apparently read into it?

"They" can call their baggage whatever they want - it's still unnecessary baggage that has no place in gaming. Gaming isn't about what hole you want to stick your wang into or what you want to stick in your hole: it's about competition and/or cooperation. It's inclusive by its very nature. It has been and always will…

Not at all sure what characterization you're raving about here, but it doesn't sound like the one presented in the linked comic. Other than revering the American government as the bastion of truth, justice and liberty (which is kinda Captain America's entire shtick), where is it implied he thinks sex, cursing,…

The whole "special little club" argument relies on the assumptions that the "clubs" contribute anything significant to the exclusion in any practical sense (which I highly doubt), and that they don't fulfill any other purpose such as the short term satisfaction of not feeling excluded within that context.

A nod is as good as a wink, to a blind horse

Willie the Bard did manage an extraordinarily high rating on the sleezometer even with such ambiguous methods

Not really sure why you're so hostile to the idea of a vocal minority if you're convinced market forces reign supreme anyway. If the vocal minority gets vocal enough they'll get a game, that's a force on the market right there.

Where are you getting this idea that this con, or anything related to it, is a policy statement on how everything else has to be? Or that it even needs to affect you in any way? And if you don't think it affects you, why do you care what other people get up to?

So just a quick question here, is reddit your first big link aggregator / community? Cause the idea that everything on the internet comes from reddit is something I see a lot, just like how people used to say everything on the internet came from fark, 4chan, something awful, slashdot, digg, whatever, when those sites…

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? I shall not, as that would be silly.

I know more than one Swede who, in recent years, have said "Batman was in Mio, Min Mio?!"

Both, neither, either one... written well they can be two arthritic hobos fighting over a cheese encrusted hamburger wrapper for all I care. Poor writing with a powerful villain means meter-wide exhaust pipes leading to the reactor core, poor writing with a powerful hero means a bag full of kryptonite. Poor writing…