I wouldn't say that this is normal, or new. I remember my sister playing a game similar concept to this, but all the characters were pigeons or birds, and that you eventually found out a really crazy elaborate backstory that made the whole thing make sense. It was also a visual novel.. don't know the name of it... …

Let's not forget...

As someone who had an Uncle who has Schizophrenia it really pisses me off to see how many movies and TV shows use them as an all purpose boogyman.

I don't know how I made it to this day. Until the age of 7 or so I had short hair and was quite tomboy-ish so I was always mistaken for a boy.
Maybe my parents should've invested in a wig for me...

*sigh* this world is a strange place. I'd like to know what kind of parents would put a wig on their baby.

maybe that's why people smother little girls with pink shit

Hey man, call me a douchebag if it makes you feel any better but at least I didn't deploy the word "whilst"

it's funny, suddenly kotaku readers aren't so fucking keen on prison rape being part of incarceration.

Silence is golden.

I did this in a Link to the Past (my gal's favorite game)...and yes, I'm bragging. Ha! :P

Thank you! I wish more people were aware of this. The whole "Oh, all he did was consensually sext with a few women! That's a matter between him and his wife!" is bullshit.

I thought that it was Angelina Jolie at first glance. I think that all of that white just washed her out.

Hell hath no fury like a geek playing out their lingering resentment.

Seriously, this is me. Most of the male nerds I know fixed themselves up after high school too, but somehow their becoming conventionally attractive isn't suspect, but when we do it, we've suddenly become the field upon which they get to play out their lingering resentment.

This a thousand times.

You do not own it, Will.i.am

Yeah that too. I was just talking about skin color and appearance of the princesses, but if you actually look at the content and lyrics, it gets so much worse.

The Sami people are indigenous Scandinavians. They have various skin/eye colors (some look very 'white,' while others have darker skin and eyes). The wiki article I've linked has many images.

And, take a look at this young white-blonde woman of the Sami.

No. The "were" has nothing to do with whether it's plural or not. It has to do with the subjunctive tense.

I also have a horrid distaste for the singular "them." As a result I use a lot of "oneself" etc.

I'm not the hugest Dan Savage fan in the world, but I love the experiment he did where he changed around genders but otherwise told the same story, giving the same advice, just to show his readers how their reactions and what they deem as "good advice" is completely different if they perceive the letter-writer to be…