Female NPC's are just playthings that give quests, rewards, or run and scream when attacked, because that's what all NPC's are for. Historical/Gritty games feature prostitutes because prostitutes are historical and gritty. They're flat killable dolls because all NPC's are flat killable dolls.

Yikes. This analysis kind of had the opposite-than-intended effect on me. Rather than concluding the new Zelda is really amazing, I can't help but feel it means the E3 presentation was dishonest. The more mind-blowing and chock-full of incredible detail and artistic flair a presentation is, the less likely it's an…

In fact, a gay link would be truer to the character than a female link.

I think they are. It's not just that Link is a petite, wispy character who stoically saves the world; Link is a petite, wispy boy who stoically saves the world. That hits a sweet spot in the public's consciousness because it defies the muscle-bound anti-hero tough guy archetype. There's something uniquely sweet…

Not necessarily, but the gender identity of a person is a big part of who they are, and we've come to appreciate and emotionally invest in Link as a plucky, intrepid young guy. I don't think Canon sets Link's gender in stone, because there are many Links, but they're all fundamentally the same person, a boy whose…

The existence of ponytail and earrings really don't sell the argument, but taken as a whole, the style of the hair, female-anime-eyelashes, softer face, and generally feminine body shape make a better case.

Ultimately it's a series of very subtle design differences that distinguish a pretty boy from a girl, but when enough of them accumulate it's immediately apparent which it is. This *would* be the prettiest link, with the most feminine eyes, face, hair, and body shape he's ever had. If this weren't an established…

The first time I saw the video I didn't even think that was link, not until i rationalized it at the very end.
There's already too much confusion over who 'Zelda' is in the general public anyway, without gratuitously switching his gender.

Didn't we already have a severely demented president?

It would be less problematic because there aren't millions of people on the internet who'd take it as support or validation of their views; you wouldn't have to worry about being used to promote something you don't agree with.

There's a thriving and growing segment in American and European society that deeply resent…

It's a good microcosm for society: some greater institution must exist to protect the rst of us from the highly-skilled, wealthy, or charismatic, because they tend to be psychopaths and abusive personalities.

Poetry is originally and fundamentally an art of the illiterate. Societies develop poetry before writing, and (more relevant to the point) "Poet" in a big city is much more likely to describe a 'street corner poet' or rapper than a poet published in the New Yorker.

Excuse me sir, are you proposing that some shadowy anonymous person or group of persons is targeting conspiracy theorists? >_>;;

What do you think constitutes being a modern 21's century "poet". Do poets turn in a CV and get hired by the poetry firm, to sit at a desk filing tps reports about poetry? You don't have to qualify "Poet" with "street corner" or "free style rapper". Those people make up the majority of Poets, and if someone tells…

o_o Poor inner city communities are especially known for both illiteracy *and* poetry. Street poets who consider that their career are a very common thing, and not all of them are literate.

FALSE. If Homer were illiterate he wouldn't have that sweet power plant job.

Canadians know what they did

Like if you went to Stormfront; that place isn't full of elderly klansmen using the library's internet. It's adolescents and teenagers who hate Blacks *and* vegans *and* furries with an equal intensity.

You'd think so, but there's actually a new class of internet prejudice where suburban kids will combine traditional hatreds with 'joke' internet prejudices. They saw the olders users' joke hatred of furries, and have adopted it into a completely earnest ruin-the-guy's-life hatred.
That's not what's going on here, but…

what....what is that game called?