So basically, she's pulling a Chihiro?

[...]and even if they harbor misogynistic views (inevitably), it's not because they hate women so much as were conditioned to think a certain way...

Where are her hands?

I hope you realize that there's a difference between "men as a group" and "every individual man." Of course there are good men, and of course any individual man can be good. I don't even think men are inherently bad. But if men in general were flawless, the article this discussion belongs to would not exist. And when…

I was afraid somebody would say something like that. I've never seen that before, though.

What? Who are you? Oh, I see. Look, I'm waaay too far out of my league to be talking about gender-related things, but since you asked...Eh...

Christ, you sound like my little brother.

Of course in theory it's possible that a woman could engage in the non-satirical version of this behavior. It's also possible in theory that I could jump out of the nearest window, like, right now. Heck, it's probably theoretically possible for a black hole to open up in my living room and start spewing out pink…

I personally think it's more of an "Of course you would ask that! You fans just can't help yourselves, can you?" laugh.

Good morning, Crono! Check out this nifty re-creation of the Chrono Trigger SNES box art by The Lando Bros. They say it took about 3 years to complete, and that they left Marle's fire off because A) her fire spell is difficult to get right and B) she actually uses water spells in the game.

Yeah, I've done that one, too. It's probably more normal than you think.

You know, you never bothered to tell us why that game would be a first-person shooter. Just curious.

No.

Nice to see some support in my HOSTILE TAKEOVER um, I mean mission of self-expression.

Does it look like I asked?

Hooray! I'm on the front page now!

I know it's not that kind of service, but whenever I hear the phrase "paying for friendship" or some variation there of, this comes to mind:

Great, because I already did.

Perhaps a little snarkier, yes, here too. Actually, what I did was that I played the games, and as I played I rigorously and consciously imagined Samus' thoughts and narration. I even wrote some of it down and formed an interesting interpretation of her personality based on that writing and such. Which, inevitably,…

But as a result of their scrutinizing, those fanboys become the Fanboys who Cried Wolf, and when something important does come up, nobody takes them seriously. To be honest, I'm ultimately dissatisfied with this game myself. I understand there are good parts to it, but if you ask me it's very half-and-half, and it…