Just wondering if you would feel similarly about a woman who dresses up (very well, I might add) as Han Solo, because I have a friend who does just that. In the end, cosplay should really be about how much effort they put in, and how well it's done, not on whether a cosplayer's sex and gender are congruent with the…

Here I was imagining a water-cooled HTPC that overheats so much the water-cooling turns to 'steam'. ;)

J/k ;). Those parts sound pretty sweet.

I mean, in what way does the cosplay of others negatively impact your life?

Really? I did not know this. Interesting. I guess some people got a little too risque at previous Cons or something.

You should explain why you feel this way.

Yeah, I'm confused as to why they made a new character model for the Definitive Edition, as I thought even the 360 version of the reboot was great, and I got the PC version for free with my new graphics card so I could take advantage of TressFX.

I'm a big fan of TressFX, mostly because one of the things that bugs me…

Well, some of the death scenes are, yes. I can't stand gore: not because it grosses me out, but I think so much of it is cheesy, like slasher films, that it actually robs a movie/TV show/game of any real sense of horror.

But the game is really good, although I wish the ending was a little longer, considering the…

I had a pair of flip-up ones I bought in New York in the '90s... along with my 2 Live Crew cassette single of 'Banned In the U.S.A.' ;)

True, but that's an issue with most games of this type. It's not even considered an issue in most games because the (male) protagonist doesn't even cry at all to begin, which I suspect is even more unrealistic, unless the protagonist is supposed to be a sociopath (which arguably, I think may be the case in many…

Yeah, that's why I bought the Collector's Edition (to support the development of games like these with positive portrayals of women), although some of the pre-rendered moves seemed a little too 'fan-service'-y for my liking. It kind of detracts from the positive aspects of the game in terms of portrayal of a female…

In my original post, I was referring to the entire range of postpartum symptoms (of which both depression and psychosis are a part) and saying it was on a spectrum (which by its very nature means it's _not_ a black-and-white issue, and either or, or in any way suggesting that any and all women with postpartum…

Yeah, my sister once got that from some guy on USENET she thought was a friend (a married friend at that), who was constantly asking her what she looked like, and describing his looks, and when she confronted him (politely, since she's a polite person) that this was making her uncomfortable and it wasn't fair to his…

False equivalence: In a fundamentally sexist and patriarchal society, men have always had substantially more agency, freedom of will and action than women, and still do. The fact that feminism has slowly started pushing back against that doesn't mean we as a society are anywhere close to equalizing that power…

Sadly, I made this exact same point in a different thread and certain people are jumping down my throat for alleged infantilizing of women and robbing of them of their agency.

Acknowledging that there are significant factors which can impinge on a person, particularly in this case a patient who was victimized by her…

I didn't apologize for posting a lie about anything: I said I apologized for being less than clear about differentiating postpartum depression and psychosis. You're the one being intellectually dishonest and twisting people's words around.

Are you going to apologize for twisting people's words around, and…

I think it's because some people's comments are greyed out, some aren't, etc., it can be confusing to new people, I imagine.

Yeah, I'm really not a big fan of Kinja. I mean, it looks nicer than what we used to have, but still, not exactly useful: I don't like the way the comments threads get buried, particularly the long ones.

Just because you keep repeating something, doesn't make it true, you know. ;P

False equivalence.

Also, as I pointed out (or maybe you haven't read it, I don't know) I was intending to 'prove' anything but my mentioning that which you are harping on: I was merely raising the issue as a potential factor. _You_ are the one insisting on me proving something when I was simply raising the point as a…

That's fair enough.