Isn’t this simply because Pokemon and Splatoon have a simple system wherein the character only has two different appearances, aside from mild customization, while Bloodborne and Mass Effect have heavy appearance customization?

Perhaps the logic is “Hey, the player can dive down and change goddamn eyebrow thickness.…

Feminists and white men are natural enemies. Like feminists and black men! Or feminists and trans women! Or feminists and white feminists! Or feminists and other feminists! Damn feminists! They ruined feminism!

D.C. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown

Sweet baby jesus. This feels like a piece of my life has been missing and finally has been found.

I think those tweets are more critical of the fact that multiple articles were written "exposing" the dude without ever actually checking to see if he actually exists. But the turnaround and blame game is still gonna happen, for sure.

I want a Christian character

Correct. Some of the "extremely rural" states like New Mexico and Montana are extremely poor and fairly healthy. I would guess that part of the reason is that those states also raise and harvest more of their food, so less fast food.

State Name : Obesity Ranking : Poorest Ranking

Mississippi, 1 - 1

He was woken up suddenly by his cat, Sally, who was standing on his head and meowing loudly.

You mean you don't get chills when he says "Welcome to Jurassic Park!" and the music kicks in? 'Cause I always do.

I think part of the difficulty in convincing studios to produce AAA games with female leads is in the way that we react to them – If you make a generic shooter game, complete with a white male protagonist with a 5 o'clock shadow, it usually is torn down or built up on the merits of the game. If you drop a female…

Your initial reading was correct - I meant that the usage in this particular instance may have been less forceful than EXPECTED from the point of view where people don't use them quite as interchangeably, not that it was less forceful overall than "stop".

This whole strange discussion on the nuances of quit/stop was…

I'm aware they're both imperatives meaning the same thing; I am suggesting that the "quit it" is typically a more forceful imperative, coming from a position of authority. You'd likely see a teacher or parent telling a misbehaving child to "quit it out", where you'd see a child not use quit in favor of "stop pushing…

Even in the initial police report, she stated they never had sex. It was never a rape investigation. It was an investigation into POSSIBLE sexual misconduct (which doesn't have to include rape) and a possible drugging.

I'm all for criticism where it is due (the initial Jezebel headline was trumpeting "Sexual…

Beg pardon, but I meant that it doesn't read "quite as harsh", in that the secondary meaning may mitigate some (but not all) of the harshness.

And yes, they are synonyms, but I wasn't arguing against that. What I was saying is that some subdialects in the Midwest (and sometimes South) use "quit" with greater…

I know some of the sites have inbox-filtering - you could set the parameter to something nearly unobtainable ("only searching for ages 99-99 within 1 mile") and that would keep them from sending you any unsolicited messages. Once you send a message to someone, it opens a dialogue and lets you go back and forth. …

As an aside, a lot of Midwesterners use "quit" in place of "stop", which doesn't read as harsh. If it had been "Ma'am, I'm sorry, but could you stop crying so I can get the information from you" it might've been a bit better. A lot of us people perceive "Quit doing _____" as a chiding from an authority figure like a…

There's a little evidence that sometimes pottery was used, but given the likely expense of making pottery early on, wood seems like the logical choice.

Oh, of course there's still places that still do it. It's just that the advent of extracted enzymes don't make it necessary for the larger production runs.

It's very much similar to the aging boards; it sounds like it might be a health hazard at first glance, but upon further inspection, the risks are so…

My point wasn't that wood boards should be banned; I don't think they should, and the conclusion they have come to is correct. My point is saliva is something most would consider unsanitary in a food product, but sake production utilized it for a long time. Arguing "Well, we've been doing it for a long time, so it…