I find the most obvious warning sign to be people who have never once backed anyone else’s campaign. At their best, Kickstarter is a community and if someone hasn’t ‘paid their dues’ then they should be looked-askance-at.

If you look at these, they are all in the $12K to $45K range (except Auditorium 2, at ~$70K), which seem, to me at least, to be ridiculously low goals, even for low-tech, indie games. Like, that is well short of one year’s full time salary for ONE professional person. And yet supposedly all of these games are being…

Having a buttslap in the game’s advertisement (and the game) makes it harder for the game to be taken seriously

No, sorry not playing this game. You’ve made up your mind and anything I say will just be willfully misinterpreted by you as some form of hateful apologia. Life is too short.

No, that isn’t what I intended.

Someone once asked me, rhetorically, “How much less ‘drunk’ would drunk people act if they didn’t have any preconceived idea of how drunk people ‘should’ act?”

Yep, this is pretty much exactly the mindset I am criticizing.

That has nothing to do with what I just wrote.

Going to court pretty unavoidably means going public.

If they refuse to give names and details to protect themselves, people say there’s not enough evidence, so their story doesn’t count.

Yes. When your reaction to the revelation that an accusation of rape turns out to be untrue is disappointment then you need to rescrew your head.

Listen, I’m not a conservative, a Christian, an MRA, a MGTOW, or anything but . . . maybe this needs to be acknowledged as a really unavoidable tradeoff of a culture of total sexual agency*, with an assist from copious alcohol. That is, that rather than men or institutions just being insufficiently feminist, we’re up…

“People get so into picking apart the individual instances that they can’t see the forest for the trees.”

Yes, once again it’s time for another episode of NARRATIVE ENTREPRENEURS . . .

Tethers and goats

No but that’s just it: As regards ‘risk assessment’ we are learning that exactly squat links these people together. Statistically they’re kind of male, kind of antisocial, but really nothing links them together and/or differentiates them from the population at large. There are no ‘tells’ no way of ‘profiling’ them.

Married person here: No, you really cannot. We are a shifty bunch. Best not to ever turn your backs on us.

You really do? Like, you read Anders Breivik or Christopher Harper-Mercer’s manifestoes with rapt attention? Your reaction wasn’t, as I suspect is more likely and is certainly the case with, disgust mixed with a twinge of boredom?

I like to think I’ve successfully threaded this needle by hating everyone, all religions and all political viewpoints. And then, just for fairness’ sake, I engage in a lot of self-hate too. I’ve achieved the zen of hate: I see myself in the other and the other in me and I realize we are all absolutely fucking…

The secret lies in his super aerodynamic skinny jeans.