Phobic doesn’t mean that in all contexts.  For example, lipids are said to be hydrophobic, but they don’t actually “fear” water.

We went this whole chain and no one’s bothered to point out the multiple times that ‘aversion’ was used as a dictionary reference.. and aversion means “strong dislike” ??? 

Oh I love these! Announcing our grand exit as if the author or the website owners give two shits, are we? That’s cute.

Sorry, I have to disagree. “The Emperor That Pays For Boys” takes the cake. 

You seem lost...

Theres DOZENS of us

PSA to those in the US: the first wave is available on the American Pokémon Center website, so I imagine the rest will be out eventually. In other words, with some patience you can avoid international shipping costs.

And you’re more than welcome to criticize that! (Personally, I loved Skyrim to death but was realllly disappointed by Fallout 4.) I’m just hoping to explain to people what an engine actually is and why there’s no reason to panic when you see headlines like “Bethesda won’t change its engine for TESVI.”

Can’t we please stop assuming that every time ALL OF THE WORK isn’t put into every single thing, that it’s immediately the pinnacle of laziness, or that we at least have to whine about how we’re just not getting all of the value that we wanted? I’m getting tired of it. Films re-use sets. Disney re-traced over old…

Oh to have been born in the 30s or 40s, where if you graduated high school and could speak in complete sentences you could stumble, trip and fall backwards into the middle class

Alright, fellow late-twenty/early-thirty-somethings. Let’s agree we’re not going to react to this, we’re just going to calmly say it’s condescending, weird that a generation that raised us would spend so much time laughing about our problems, and is based on a profile of stereotypes that treat weird specific internet…

You’re wrong. That is not interesting at all. 

“I don’t have a problem with it so I don’t see why anyone else should have a problem with it because I lack basic empathy!”

She’s Indian.

I like Smash ok, but I really fucking hate the fanbase. This game has literally every Smash character ever, plus a decent amount of new ones, and they’re still constantly disappointed by every single announcement.

I’m not the biggest fan of Jim Sterling’s work these days (his growing frustration with AAA publishing practices is, well, almost as exhausting as those practices themselves), but his take on RDR2's attention-to-detail and verisimilitude-at-any-cost habits are worth a look as a counterpoint.

This makes me very happy!!! (I’m not that guy’s wife btw)

As a guy with a beard I have to mention that facial hair is make-up for dudes and we should be more open about that. So let he willing to shave off his facial hair to reveal his actual jawline cast the first stone.

Maybe I am the minority but I prefer women who don’t like makeup. The excuse that makeup helps build confidence is a lie in every way imaginable.

Phione doesn’t evolve though. It’s hatched from an egg, but it doesn’t evolve into Manaphy