"Them people" was not racist, "sunshine." Read the statement again. You don't consider them deserving of rights is what I'm saying. People deserving of rights is what you don't consider them to be. You're right, I did make a straw man argument, I was taking it to an extreme. I apologize. But you were nonetheless…

Wait... You went around and talked to 200+ OB nurses from all over the country? So I take it you don't have a job, thus allowing you to undertake this mad quest to interview nurses and then spout what may be isolated cases as fact? So a few people are total assholes and that's suddenly representative of the whole? I'm…

I disagree with everything you said but meh.

I would actually argue that much of WoW's current success has more to do with how invested people are in the game. That is to say that most people have been playing it for 5-8 years and it's hard to just let that go entirely, especially when you've put so much time and money into it. Also it has to do with just going…

You're welcome. And I completely understand, I made the same mistake at first. The picture really does give the impression it's referring to the larger one. If I hadn't played Pokemon before I would probably never have realized it.

"Oh my God, you guys, I don't like something that other people like. Therefore it is stupid and pathetic and I'm clearly superior than all of you stupid, mindless sheep because I don't like it. Also you're all stupid for liking this other stuff I don't like! Rawr, I seethe with rage!"

The Bulbasaur is actually the tiny one at the front, with a bulb instead of a flower on his back. The big one that I believe you're thinking of is actually a Venusaur. It is a tad difficult to make that out but not a mistake. That said, Nidoking is 4'7" and not much shorter than the trainer, so I'm also suspecting…

Well, they actually have admitted to just making it up as they went. They set up all sorts of things that were never really explained satisfactorily, ending the whole thing with, "Well, it was God." How did Starbuck come back? "Oh, God made her a ghost." Why were Baltar and Six seeing images of each other? "Oh, they…

So it's an infinite recursive judgement loop. I judge myself unworthy to judge but that means I'm unworthy to judge myself unworthy, which means I'm still judging myself... @_@ It's a complicated thing, I know. And I'm not even that serious a case. I feel for those who deal with much more severe issues than I've…

Yeah, that's true. The noble sacrifice thing they were going for didn't really work as intended. I know there's at least one ending where he survives but, yeah, at least some chance at a happy ending would have been nice. Still, for whatever reason it didn't bother me. I understand why people were disappointed but I…

I don't think the ending was shitty at all. It may have left a lot unexplained and presented more questions than answers but all of the endings essentially built off everything that happened in the game, something people seem to ignore or just gloss over. I haven't yet played the extended ending(I'm in no rush since I…

I think the problem is that nobody really has any insight into how that kind of thinking gets started. I guess it can be different for everybody. For me, I honestly have no idea how I started thinking like that. I certainly don't want to kill myself, I'm fortunate to not be that extreme, but that "guilty until proven…

You make a rational and sensible argument, too. I do agree with what you say, that our current mode of defining it gives it too much power over us, at least at times. The OPs statement that worrying about food/money would distract from the depression, though, is a little mistaken, though. I worry about food and money…

I agree that there isn't really a human normal, exactly. However if you have 100 people and 99 of them vary only a little in mood, such that they're sad or angry when something bad happens, happy when something good happens or just not upset, sad or miserable the rest of the time, I suppose that would be considered a…

I get what you're saying, I just disagree. Well, let me be more specific, I disagree with you in MOST cases. There are some people, yes, where it's exactly like you say. Where I object and get angry is that your initial statement seemed to imply that what you're saying is true for everyone.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or you're unbelievably naive and foolish. There are times, yes, when some issues are simply psychosomatic but to make a blanket statement that diagnosing someone with an illness makes a person succumb to that illness is just ridiculous, especially when dealing with something like…

I agree completely, sadly.

Really? I did not know that. That's actually pretty damn funny.

Yeah. I really shouldn't feed his ego but he's just so representative of what's wrong with the gaming community that it overshadows all the great about the gaming community.

One game and 1/10 of a game is not an historical trend. They've made a lot of amazing games, in some ways even redefined computer RPGs, so you can choose to assume that they can do so again. Dragon Age 2 wasn't even a bad game, it was just different from Dragon Age: Origins, so it got a lot more hate than it deserved.…