Someone is telling them that they are right. Don’t underestimate the appeal of the almighty circle jerk. 

He’s right. Dehumanization is responsible for these attacks. But the amount of dehumanization that comes from video games is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the torrential flood of toxic rhetoric that is spewed on a daily basis from the White House.

“the chance to judge others”

My cable box is on the fritz and reset while I was watching something on the DVR. The last thing I had watched live was on ABC so I was forced to watch this show for twenty seconds until I had the power to change the channel and I too wondered where the appeal is. Reading your comment has…

It is if they stay with her after her fifteen minutes are over.

No, that people accepted her for the real her is the take away. Yes, she misled people into believing that their “reward” was to look at a pretty, young girl. But in the end, she learned that people were okay with seeing a middle-aged woman. (And that’s as close to the “females as prizes” topic that I wish to approach…

There’s a difference between asking a question and encompassing it in a critique.  Google: Context. 

My aversion to online gaming stems back to one of my earliest experiences with it. My cousin suggested I try an online FPS he had been playing. I had to deal with learning a new control scheme while enduring a constant barrage of abuse (via text, the internet couldn’t handle group voice chat yet). Explaining that it…

I’m quite surprised at the narrow generational target. Throw in a couple of older series and movies (Davy Crockett, Mickey Mouse Club, any of the Dean Jones films) and parents and grandparents (i.e. the people paying for the feature) will view it as more than “that thing for the kids.” Walt built his fortune (and…

Seven actually turns me off, not because Jeri Ryan but because Voyager turned into constant catsuit shots instead of fixing all the problems they had with the content. 

Or measure the clothes that they’ll be wearing ahead of time.  

This is a perfectly healthy way for the brain to help keep you from getting mauled by wild animals. Unfortunately for 2019 me in suburbia, it’s not a particularly useful evolutionary feature. To cope I just keep my headphones just off the center of the ear. It helps keep me grounded and the fight or flight portion of…

Head canon: “Legend” implies multiple tellings of the story. It’s like one account of Atlantis being different from others or the Tim Burton Batman films vs the Christopher Nolan series.

His wife grounded him for calling Kim Jung-Un a “dictator” instead of the more Christian-friendly term “woo-hootator.”

I’m probably a third of the way through the first one and I’m ready to put it down for good. There are moments that I enjoyed when the game just doesn’t take itself too seriously. But I’ve been frankly underwhelmed as the dungeons are mostly indistinguishable and repetitive and the summons (which are what caught my…

There is no ridiculously horrible idea that one could write in a sentence beginning with, “Alabama decides to...” that would surprise me anymore.  They’re like America’s time capsule.

Lego Harry Potter is particularly bad at this. Much of the game involves just randomly casting spells on random items hoping one of them triggers the necessary Rube Goldberg machine needed to advance.

I almost placed an asterisk after that. It’s a shared set of culture, histories, genetics, and experiences that are a direct result of fools’ reactions to differences and “othering” - as a result of skin tone. But you’re right, from your responses I should have realized that you needed that spelled out lest you lose…

Because the workplace in this analogy is society and the jobs are skin tones. One of us is not good with analogies, I suspect.

Wow, condescending much?

Yes, because when people who aren’t dicks suggest that we level the playing field, what we really mean is, “Let’s stick it to Whitey.”  You cracked our code; guess we’re going to have to change the secret handshake now.