That bunch of crock is only as widely believed as it is because people like you spread it around. Honestly, I'm surprised it's gained so much traction and become popular wisdom considering how utterly nonsensical it is. Unless you're asexual, it's pretty much a given that you want to have sex with someone you're…

This panel is garbage. Were there bad games back in the days of the NES? Heck yes. Were some of they "unplayable" due to poor controls? Definitely. But back in those days, when a game shipped, it was complete and relatively bug-free. Developers didn't have crutches like release day patches to lean on.

"But anyway, were there specific things that she said that made her seem more paranoid than I seem? Or just a general impression of the writing?"

*sighs* Someone else pointed out the problem with the whole idea of Schrödinger's Rapist elsewhere, but I'm going to summarize it here as best I can.

If someone had written an…

"But it's hardly fair to say we think we understand what guys are thinking - we merely understand the consequences of interacting with the few that are dangerous, and those few tend to hide among guys who aren't dangerous very well."

It would appear that I didn't express myself properly. I'm not talking about rational,…

"We, as men, can never, ever know what it's like to be a woman. Period. We can't presume to know what it feels like or what life is like on that side of the gender line."

That's certainly true, but, as Did_It_For_Alliance said, what a lot of the "Internet Feminists" don't seem to get is that that argument works both…

Personally, I think the Internet has lead to the demise of etiquette and civilized, honest debate.

Many people seem to be under the delusion that getting the last word is synonymous with winning a debate. It's not the quality of your arguments or how articulate you are in voicing your opinion or side that counts. All…

Sorry to break it to you, but the controversy never went away based on this timeline:

What a lot of people seem to forget is that the theory of "rape culture" is just that. A theory. Its existence has not been conclusively proven.

As one observant individual pointed out, "If we really did live in a rape culture, i.e. a culture that promotes and trivializes rape, wouldn't the vast majority of people be…

Ah, here we go! Let's analyze the rape results in the U.S. from 2006:

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pd…

Table 10 (Page 10): 69% of defendents accused of rape taken to trail within 1 year.
Table 11 (Page 11): 62% conviction rate, 32% dismissed.
Figure 7 (Page 11): Of those convicted 54% were convicted of the original…

The sources you've quoted don't exactly appear to be neutral either.

As for the Tumblr blog's mission statement, you can interpret it however you want. The group that runs it is composed of people of every possible sexual, ethnic, and gender combination, so it's highly doubtful they're biased in the way you're…

"I'm saying that they probably shouldn't have acted like spoiled kids the second they were criticized."

You mean acting spoiled like the people who made death threats against the Penny Arcade creators' families because they couldn't get the final word in any other way?

In the world I live in, making a death threat…

The RAINN statistics are actually dissected here:

http://permutationofninjas.org/post/247052276…

White I don't necessarily take this site as the gospel truth, they do provide an extensive and logical explanation for the "97% don't go to prison" figure, namely the fact that the amount of time the accused individuals…

The rape statistics you quoted are incorrect. The study in question not only boosted the numbers by double-counting some rapes but also labeled some people as victims even though those people didn't consider themselves to have been raped. The figure's estimated to be closer to 1 in 33.

http://permutationofninjas.org/pos…

*sighs* This garbage again.

While no one online seems to be able to provide a proper definition, I think that most people could probably agree that a "rape joke" is a joke whose punchline either involves rape or uses the action of rape for comedic effect. Needless to say, I'm not a huge fan of these types of jokes, nor…

Is there any particular reason that publishers do grossly inefficient things when bringing to a game to a foreign market, like having five different translators who never communicate with each other localize a game or send a script in for dubbing without anyone first editing or proofreading it (which leads to massive…

Is there any particular reason that publishers do grossly inefficient things when bringing to a game to a foreign market, like having five different translators who never communicate with each other localize a game or send a script in for dubbing without anyone first editing or proofreading it (which leads to massive…

Just for fun, here's everything that people have managed to figure about arcade game references and cameos so far: