There are ways to calculate needed sample size, and this checks out.

On a semi-related note, I just felt compelled to leave an image of the sort of wide-open beaver which excites news photographers so much.

I think my primary issue with the snark (as I look at it more,) is that this is a dude who's not letting himself go entirely unexamined. Maybe he's bad at it or unfamiliar with what language to use - whatever. But he's clearly trying to come to terms with it. He says things like "I even kind of admire her for not…

Not in any defense of anything, and mostly off-topic, but contextualizing pubic hair as a "visual cue of sexual maturity" is just as cultured a position as his, and the implication that a woman who does shave does so to look more like a non-adult woman is equally heinous.

Quick, somebody fashion together a drinking game!

It's getting absurd. I can't listen to Gabe Newell talk without some voice in my head going:

Not sarcasm. For all its pleasures, games writing used to be an enthusiast press barely concerned with critical distance. Now, for all its faults, is better.

I know what your point was. I'm just saying that the points of the editorial staff of Kotaku (the ones who make the decisions about who gets hired, what goes "to print," etc.) are infinitely more interesting, enriching, and worthwhile than your strongly-held weirdly aggressive points about whether or not any given…

It certainly sets Kotaku apart from the historically homogeneous tone and perspective of gaming sites of yore.

Wait. If horse_ebooks isn't gaming...then...am I gaming? Is this gaming? Are you gaming?

We'll miss you :(

internet toughguy +1

Ms. Hernandez, never stop writing.

See there where it says "Off Topic"? It's actually a pretty regular feature on Kotaku.

Your comment is boring.

I was mostly (gently!) mocking the idea that a writer on the internet /wouldn't/ be "seeking attention." I mean, that's kinda the point, right? It's a silly criticism. It's an especially silly criticism to be making when you yourself are putting your comments out into the world, ostensibly in order to be noticed and…

"Mormon" is a much narrower identity and definition than "Jew" or "Catholic." The former isn't even necessarily a religious designation, and the latter is a hugely varied identity shared by billions of people over hundreds of years. Of the possible designations put forward here, "ex-Mormon" by far makes the most…

Internet sarcasm is the best way to genuinely and reasonably engage with complex issues.

I'm currently in my last semester as an anthropology student (incidentally, I've had several classes with Stephen Beckerman, named above!) and this is still more or less the instructed canon. What confuses the issue, as Beckerman has noted many times, is that our words for "father" and "mother" are linguistic…