I've gotten the impression over the years that people who don't self-reflect often complain about their own behavior.

Seriously, if I happen to meet someone that I found to be great, sure I might go out of my way to try to get to know them better and I'd love if we worked well enough together to want to spend our lives together. Even if I actively go out with the intention of dating, the idea is "getting to know other people" instead…

I went to an upper middle class middle school in SoCal in the 90s. Some of the boys were already having rape fantasies at that age, and not because of sex-ed classes. How are sex-ed classes worse than learning through porn mags or the internet?

Wait, so if you play a lot of video games, your brain will be incapable of focusing on a single task requiring multiple thoughts and actions per second for 30-90 minutes straight right? Does this mean they think BoxeR and Flash are mutants? Seriously though, this feels like the American comic book/rock music scare and…

If it helps ease your defenses I'm a straight male and partially white. I didn't read all the responses to you, so I can't speak for all of them, but I can say that most of them don't feel like there's anything they said that was influenced by your gender.

If I was in your workplace, I'd probably spend more time helping the 'less attractive' people. I'd notice you (and likely others) going out of their way helping certain people, and then go out of my way to help those who are struggling to keep up for lack of assistance. I probably wouldn't even make the…

First off, your workplace doesn't represent all workplaces. Second, I would ask you to take a week and pay extra attention and really analyze what everyone around you is saying. It can be easy for people to subconsciously enforce double standards into their thinking without noticing. In my experience, when a guy comes…

Mononoke, not to be confused with Princess Mononoke, had a pretty unique art syle. It felt like you were watching a moving painting. I do agree that most anime is produced using very similar art styles, and you can't always notice a difference going from one series to another. This is especially true with most of the…

I think what reflectioneternal is trying to get at is that there are lots of different genres and sub-genres within anime, not to mention the demographics each series is aimed at. To be fair, demographics are more largely used in manga than in anime, but there is spillover.

When she says what matters is what's in the heart and not physical appearances, I wonder if she means that she likes people as long as their heart is White and they act like "one of us."

I thought guy was the male equivalent of gal.

I think the argument is that, without government, there would be no tax, thus taxes are part of the government. Taxing a religious institution would be imposing this government construct upon the religion.

My mom loves gay men but she can't stand lesbians. My Grandma hated Asians until she met my Dad; he became her favorite in-law. Another relative doesn't like black people despite dating a wonderful black woman for a decade before she died of illness because "she wasn't like the rest of 'those people' ". What blows my…

Every time a new FF game comes out, there's a large group of people that claim it's the worst FF ever and the series is dying. I remember it happening with TA, TA2, 10, 10-2, 11, 12, 13, 13-2, 14, probably will happen with LR, 14:ARR and 15 as well. I believe it happened to 9 too, but I didn't spent as much time on…

Steampunk is a sci-fi subgenre, and 6 was the steampunk game, not 7. I'd classify 7 more as post-industrial scifi. Both did have fantasy elements to them of course, as does 13. If you didn't like the game, that's perfectly fine. Just don't pretend it's because the game didn't use a fantasy setting, because 2 of the…

Looks like one of the Kamen Rider series, Fourze maybe?

Did you ever play the dungeon mode in Ehrgeiz(PS1)? Rogue-like, action-adventure, dungeon crawler that I remember being pretty tough and with a harsh death penalty. Demon Souls felt like a modern update to the genre, and Dark Souls takes it a step farther.

Some lower budget KS that were successful:

I've backed 39 KS so far and haven't been dissatisfied by a single one. First off, you aren't making a purchase. You're investing in an idea, and agreeing to get your reward tier in exchange for your money if said idea pans out. It's always a good idea to do some critical thinking to determine if their projected goal…

Yuna was set up as a traditional main character. She was like the Cecil/Terra/Cloud/etc of X. They ended up giving us Tidus since there's a train of thought that people can't empathize with a female character unless it's through the view of a male character.