While I'm sure his heart was in the right place, I'm always hesitant to cheer this type of supposed great advance for human rights for non-cisgender people, because on the one hand, the fact that it is being talked about at all can't entirely be a bad thing. But on the other hand, all I can think is how it would be a…

I don't know enough about the case to comment (I only read the xoJane allegations recently) but I agree it doesn't look good for her.

That being said, have her charges been categorically disproven in court? And if not, if it's possible (however improbable, going by the inconsistencies in the story) this really…

Those ads scare me.

Seriously, I can't believe it's possible to make it _worse_ than Elite. ;P I'm tempted to check it out just to see how bad it is. ;)

Elite never worked properly anyway, whenever I tried to use it. I desperately wanted to like it, and more importantly to actually use it, but it never worked in MW3 so I didn't even bother in BLOPS2.

Condom calling, see we ain't got no swing

'Cept for the ring on that phallic thing

This needs to become a meme, stat. :)

I think contextually, the amount of flesh (well, drawn flesh) is about the same as if these characters were depicting, say, an athlete wearing athletic clothing for performance reasons: it shows a lot of upper thigh, for example. But an athlete is wearing little clothing because it's hot and they need to perspire to…

So they do advertising that only targets a very specific demographic, namely straight cis-male otaku? You'd think there were no other kinds of otaku of other backgrounds. :( Also, a lot of those fan service-y portrayals look kind of... underage...?

It's great if you have the good stuff. ;) Well, unless you're a super-taster, in which case you might find even the best coffee to be pretty bitter.

/drinks it black, usually
//if it's good
///didn't like coffee for most of his life
////had one good cup and was hooked

Oh trust me, while it may taste terrible on the outset, once you start drinking it, you stop tasting how weirdly artificial and vaguely nauseating and stomach-churning it tastes. But you have to drink a lot of it.

When I first switched, I was like 'ewwww' and vowed to just not drink pop anymore... but I ended up…

It's not just Barbie, but because it was in the news recently for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, it's definitely relevant to the topic at hand.

No one is arguing causation: Barbie is symptomatic of a sexist and misogynistic culture, but there is definitely a correlation between unrealistic (and…

Well, at least now Sports Illustrated will know who to put on their next cover for the Swimsuit Edition. :P

Mattel, you say Barbie doesn't affect the self-image of girls and women (not just physically but mentally), but I'm #NotBuyingIt

Well, I didn't get to play the Beta very long so I didn't really get used to it, so I wasn't doing very well. It's possible there was just too much going on for me to get used to it in time (compared to a game like BLOPS2 or Ghosts, anyway), and it will get better for me once it comes out and I have more time to play…

I kind of know what you mean.

On the other hand, if you look at the cannonfodder as being much like the killstreak bonuses in games like CoD, I think it becomes a little easier to accept.

But then again, I wish the bots had actually been made the same as regular pilots, instead of weaker cannonfodder: since AIs, no…

You mentioned you're Austrian: is Austrian German similarly lacking in spacing?

I know WWII-era German words (at least the ones I've read) tend towards compound words without spacing or hyphenation, but I don't know much about the differences between that and Austrian German.

Japanese children's books tend to have more spacing to make them easier to read, which I think also makes them aesthetically more pleasing.

The great thing about a pictographic character set is that it can drastically shorten how long a text has to be to say the same thing as in, say, English for example. The downside…

Maybe for kanji, but I find it helps for writing in hiragana because of the homonyms in Japanese which can confuse the issue without an accompanying pictograph. I'm sure it's an affectation related to English-speakers/readers, though. People on the internet who read English comments will often outright refuse to…

I think my post was misconstrued: the issue wasn't whether it should be 'neco' or 'neko' (I prefer 'neko' as the Anglicized spelling for the Japanese word for cat, but whatevs), or whether it should be hyphenated or not (I don't care that much), but whether it's 'mini' or 'mimi'.

'Mini' = small (even in Japanese,…

Oh, the issue was the typo/misspelling of the product name: it should be 'necomimi', not 'necomini'.

But yeah, I use hyphens and spaces in my Japanese, because I find it's easier to read that way, but my Japanese is heavily Japanglicized, because I grew up in Canada, even though I am ethnically (and to a certain extent…