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KM Bezner
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Yeah, I figured out when I first played Origins that trying to please everyone in your party just ends with everyone hating you. You might as well just piss them all off from the start

When I first play through a game I usually play the character like myself. Sometimes if I play through more than once I might decide to play an especially evil or moral character if it has a clear moral system like Mass Effect or explore new options in games like Dragon Age that aren't so black and white. When I do I

Read more.
Write more.
Watch some of the TV shows my boyfriend has been insisting I watch with him for the last year.
Finish Korra so I can fully and unashamedly support a show with positive, all-ages LGBT content.
Finish Buffy so my work friends will stop glaring at me with disappointment every time we talk about TV

I mean a solid work ethic can be a good thing…when you're not using it to make yourself superior to everyone else and absolve yourself of any responsibility regarding poverty and other social ills

Basically if life isn't working out for you, you clearly either deserve it or didn't work hard enough.

You made a good point thought. Thinking about pay equality and the minimum wage …if you know there weren't enough reasons to fix that shit up anyway, the fact that we've got single parents working multiple jobs just to provide for their families should be enough to rally people around this issue, especially since

Yeah no kidding. It's just disappointing that media portrayal of single parents is almost exclusively
dads: good on you for taking care of your kids on your own!
moms: why would you deprive your children of the strong male influence they need?!
The thing I keep hearing is that single mothers should ensure their kids

This is a good point: single dads are often portrayed as loving and hardworking, and seem to manage pretty well on their own. Single moms however, have to struggle to make ends meet and before the end of the movie usually end up settling down with a man who can help this poor woman raise her children.
Like you said, it