FWIW, 'Call of Cthulhu' was a thing long before there was Call of Duty or Call of Juarez. This is one of those WoW/Warhammer, Gears/Warhammer 40K things where if all you know is top videogames it is going to look funny to you.

FWIW, I think that some portrayals of male characters in games and media *do* feed into and reinforce and existing narrative that is damaging to men in our society: how about the stereotype that we are irresponsible, avoid commitment, and see relationships with women solely as a path to sex?

First off, Katee Sackhoff is amazing.

Been away a while, but I'll still yammer at you.

Homebrewing the Wii hasn't really taken off in the states. I've not even looked into jailbreaking mine. However, I'm very close to changing my mind.

I guess. I'm a big fan of the series, but especially this November I'll hardly be suffering for options on what to play.

The main thing that I know is that I'll be waiting until next year to play this. Their console games have always been somewhat shaky, and their PC games even shakier in terms of bugs-at-launch. Given it 6 months for modders to have at it and I'm sure that I'll enjoy it.

But if iOS does actually outcompete some other gaming platforms, you can expect more of this pricing as other big game companies move in.

I think that people get their pants in a bunch about Steam because it is actually a reasonably usable service, and probably is still the best chance for an online game purchase portal where you can get the vast majority of everything. Individual companies are always trying to have their own stores, and nobody wants…

I'm sure that they're very concerned about your bold stand of "I won't stand for Origin; here take my money."

Your fried-chicken and watermelon analogy would be complete if you made certain to reinforce that as part of this campaign, there would also be tongue-in-cheek messaging about how funny it is to propose that black guys would actually work in the game industry or even want to do so.

Hearted. One of the best metaphors to distill this one down that I've seen.

Before I read: will she play an attractive young Alpha whose touch can stop a (person/television show) it their tracks?

You'd just give editors with a a threshold level of seniority the ability to review ratings. Presumably most pages would never have their ratings reviewed, but just like when some page gets a bunch of random edits, if a page gets a bunch of random upvotes or downvotes, some senior editor can swoop in and keep a…

As entertaining as a schtick of wikipedia editing disputes is, voting on Wikipedia would work better if you had to tie a comment onto your vote. Then editors could still go through a purge votes that are without comment or whose comment demonstrates the vote to be bogus.

You really can tell the drivers from the people who also cycle. There are at least two drivers violating the rules for how you treat a bicycle on the road for every cyclist committing a moving violation in that video.

That's a gloriously straightforward and comforting sentiment, but what's your proposed alternative? Obeying all traffic laws on a bicycle in a congested urban environment that tries to treat a bicycle the same as a car is straight-up lethal, never mind any other practicalities.

What is interesting is that bicyclist behavior is an excellent case study in energy-efficiency. Generally, if you had a magic wand and transformed our traffic laws to make more of the energy-saving choices that cyclists make because they are their own engine, you'd also get better city mileage out of cars obeying the…

I pretty much got the impression that everyone at those intersections were assholes. Really, the conduct of the cars as pedestrians was no better.

Some people work based on objective reality, some people work based on subjective emotion. To him, a black guy legally moving into a house in Texas feels like Casey Anthony being acquitted.