Ok I will give this a shot for the umpteenth time.

Not conflicted at all, actually. Despite my unabashed love for Obama, there are absolutely things about him that I'd criticize quite heavily.

She didn't really have that option.

I don't blame him for running. He did a service to the American people to the dismay of the American government. If the government were truly representing the interests of the people, there would be little reason to keep the generalities of these entire programs secret anyway.

i have worked as a waitress when i was in school back in the Jurassic period. i'd rather rob banks then waitress. people who would never be surly and rude to others they saw as equals will say and do the crappiest stuff to waitresses. i have had customers run up $150+ tabs and not leave a tip, b0sses withold money…

THIS. That is exactly it. It's not that we don't make it bountifully clear. When we're talking about hints here, it's like people think we're being subtle. We're not. 'Hints' comprise everything shy of going "GET THE FK AWAY FROM ME YOU HUMAN LAMPREY": constantly turning down every invitation to do anything, ever;…

There's just as much if not more room for what is or isn't tactful, though. Whereas one guy might appreciate being told politely to go away, there are other guys who hate being told directly and would prefer to be told more subtly. In short, you can upset people either way.

The whole point of this was that the "Nice Guy" as they're calling him never actually makes an advance, so saying "I'm not interested" never really has a chance to come up.

Because of this:

When Kotaku reported on one of the lead guys working on the Oculus Rift died after getting hit by a car, did you think to yourself "Look at Kotaku, suggesting that the gaming industry is being targeted by drivers, car fatalities happen everywhere!"?

You're assuming that everyone has the desire to convince. Some people do...I typically do and I'm in rather good mood today especially. But when you've heard certain things all of your life, sometimes you just want to eyeroll and walk away.

Well, to be honest, as a gay man, if I were living in a country (or US state) that made it illegal for me to actually have sex, I would VIRTUALLY have sex in the privacy of my own home....even if it was just me and my computer. Fearing for one's safety isn't all that unusual so the statistic actually makes me…

This drove me so insane I had to log in on my phone which was HARD. Retouching (for improved appearance of the subject) is not a modern day practice at all. Have you ever seen the re-touching done on photos of starlets from the 1920s, 30s and 40s? Long before photoshop, they were deleting wrinkles and freckles, adding…

Oh sure, but it wasn't relied upon as standard to the extent that's current.

I had the pleasure of posting something mildly successful on the internet once. It was my first ever flash animation that I uploaded to Newgrounds. I got front-paged, 13k views and a lot of feedback on something that was essentially a time-consuming first-year university project.

I never expected it to be noticed, much…

No it isn't. The core market is much older. This behaviour is not age-specific, sadly.

While I understand the sentiment...the pedant in me must point out that the San Andreas is a slip fault, not a subduction or ...the opposite. (Having looked up fault names, Wikipedia is now calling those "dip-slip" or "oblique-slip"...which is "bull-slip", but I'm spending too much time on Wikipedia as is, so instead…

In fact, hot water freezes faster than cold. So if you did the same thing with luke warm water it would probably hit the ground as water still.

I would argue that he's not the one who made it about Chris Kluwe, the guys who opposed him did.

I had always wondered what the "I'm not racist BUT" of misogyny was going to look like.

equating Feminism to Nazism says otherwise