I'm not here to speak for feminism. But insofar as feminism is a "thing" which "exists," I don't think it would be unreasonable to feel pangs of skepticism if men happened to be at the head of that particular table calling all the shots.

A house is an asset, though. It's not like he bought 70 million dollars in widgets or something.

I think the key is to not be so defensive about it. You seem to be projecting a very "taking my ball and going home" attitude about it in your comment, but that's really not the way to handle the situation. Just acknowledge that people can be wrong about how they construe your actions, and brush that shit off when it…

I think the term "ally" is best used in situations where a construction of group identity is key, and you happen to not belong to that group. If you're a man, you probably shouldn't be acting like an equal shareholder in defining the boundaries of feminism, for example. Similarly, I'd hope you wouldn't have considered…

I think the problem is with regarding yourself as an ally in the first place. There are situations where the "ally" paradigm fits well, but I feel like it's not well-suited to the problem we see embodied in the deaths of Grant, Martin, Brown, Garner, Rice, and so on. This sort of language implies that white people are…

Valve can do whatever they want, and we can criticize them for it and call out their hypocrisy.

You're correct, and I hate it when people invoke the 1st amendment improperly as well, but at the same time, I do think we should be able to expect Valve to apply the rules fairly and consistently, instead of arbitrarily determining that some games are offensive enough to effectively be blacklisted, while other…

The only point of these post-game pressers is to catch the players/coaches off-guard, right? Other than that, the reporters could basically just fill in the blanks themselves.

I hated platformers even back when platformers were the dominant genre. Why? Because they were too fucking difficult-for-the-sake-of-difficulty and only stressed brainless, rote memorization of patterns.

Umm, sorry, that's not proof of a foul. The fact remains that Grayson never wrote any review, so there was no ethical conflict. Unless you can directly contradict that basic fact—and you can't, because it's a fact—the point stands. Trying to drag this into "but they was actin' all s'picious-like" territory is…

Given the fact that there was no impropriety in Quinn's relationship w/ Grayson, her ex's outrage, supposedly over "ethical concerns," was rendered instantly invalid. Grayson never even wrote a review, much less a good one, of Quinn's game. So what could her ex have possibly thought was the ethical scandal here?…

The problem is that it was never a good cause, because it was, from its very inception, about attacking women in gaming. The whole Gamergate movement was spawned by a dude who went crying to the internet on some "spurned lover" shit, and rallied a bunch of MRAs to harass his ex.

The kid in that game needs to work on his skills.

The answer, almost certainly, is that they're using third-party or in-house APIs to port these games to iOS. So every time iOS gets updated, there's a chance that these APIs, because they're not designed or maintained by Apple, will break. This happens routinely for mobile games developed with popular APIs like…

Both of those games came out at the tail end of the last generation. It may be true that some people are buying the games again because they enjoyed them before and want the "next gen" experience, but I don't see it as a "toxic" thing to bring a relatively new game over to the next console at the end of a cycle like…

I actually feel the exact opposite. With The Last Of Us and GTAV it was all about extending the lifetime of a recently released game on new consoles, not feeding the tired nostalgia of a niche community.

And those people are universally stupid.

Who gives a shit? Seriously. The "HD remaster" crowd is probably the worst micro-culture within gaming, mostly because they've actually been successful at getting studios to sap valuable resources that could have been better spent on new IP. As though it's not already bad enough that sequels rule the roost. Now we…

Honestly, who cares? This whole push for HD remakes of "beloved classics" has long since passed the point of absurdity. They are giving you the ability to play this game without having to drag out your PS1. Expecting anything more than that is silly.

I wasn't talking about network lag. I was talking about graphics lag. Not only are the ability/spell effects a point of worry, but the fact that you're playing alongside heavily-customized player avatars. EQ2 always had a similar problem, where high graphical detail on other characters was a huge performance hit…