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The kind that suffers from gender dysphoria which, again, we have studies suggesting there is a biological basis for. Right, that would be silly. What if he tried the makeup, loved it, and asked if he could do it again? And again? What if he started asking you to buy him pink clothes, or tutus...

Funniest bit in the satire article:

From the GG thread: Teacher accused of 'misgendering' child was told by police that she committed a hate crime Let's be clear, here: This isn't a case of "Teacher accidentally referred to female-looking student as a girl, is being charged with hate crime." So the teacher intentionally and...

On the contrary, I understand the cause and effect here very well. Cause: Formerly unremarkable feminist claims she will take a critical look at the portrayal of women in video games. Effect: Video Game Gatekeepers decide (incorrectly) that their hobby is at risk and that they must stop said...

Welll... kinda? She had her Feminist Frequency brand for a couple of years, but no one really noticed or gave a shit until her "Women vs Tropes in Video Games" Kickstarter. Once that started, she got decent support, was targeted by harassment campaigns which got a lot of attention, then received...

I'm guessing it's just a coincidence, but TMNT and Fester's Quest have something in common that annoyed the crap out of me: Overworlds filled with several buildings you can enter that serve little to no purpose! TMNT will always have a soft spot in my heart for its commendable ambition and...

Even if those labels were accurate (and that's certainly not a given), she was still wronged and received a tremendous amount of support because of it. People don't like to see someone fall victim to the whims of those who would eschew logic and reason for a good old-fashioned witch hunt, and...

Why? Best thing that can happen to a dev is having SJWs flip out over his product, which gets a ton more attention and way more sales. Even better if the SJWs try to fuck with his livelihood, and better still if the media gets on board. That never ceases to provoke a strong reaction from...

I would very much like to participate in the Vegas meetup. Unfortunately it takes place right at the beginning of the school year, which makes it pretty much impossible for me to join.

Nice! Now I'm glad I held off on Kerbal.

Fair enough.

Are you kidding here? YOU are the one who compulsively responds to my posts with comments highlighting your lack of understanding, but then you pull out a "Who cares?" when I correct you? If you don't like me correcting you, don't lie about me.

Casually sexist remark.

Catsonurhead isn't a bad streamer for those who enjoy retro game streaming.

Dammit I voted for both and now we've got a tie. Had I noticed before the end of the poll I probably would have switched out my Mario RPG vote, not because I don't love the game (I do), but because RPGs demand SO MUCH more time and effort than other genres and I think we deserve a game we can...

The third game in the Gargoyle's Quest trilogy (a spinoff of Ghosts & Goblins/Ghouls and Ghosts), Demon's Crest went under the radar for a lot of people but it's a moody and atmospheric Metroidvania with great graphics and fun transformations. Demon's Crest Wikipedia blurb: Demon's...

Done. If everyone else can do the same, we've solved the problem of internet assholery.

You couldn't see it because it wasn't created yet! For some reason we were unable to create polls for a while but it's up now. I added Demon's Crest as a nomination for those who'd prefer a few more non-RPG options.

Here are the choices for April's Retro Game of the Month. Sorry it's late, there were some technical issues.

Here's a fun article about several of SOTN's quirks.

Ultimately, maxing my luck stat (and it apparently maxes out at 199) still does not produce dependable rare drops. I'm still grinding, if I'm lucky it doesn't take very long for any given enemy (Venus Weed was giving me a hard time, but I also spent a bit of time unaware that I hadn't switched...

Next thing you're going to tell me the enemies don't take hundreds of shots to kill... That stone head that oozes flies or worms, that slime that just seems to reproduce indefinitely until it arbitrarily decides to let you kill it, these were bullet sponges. Even an oft-encountered patch of...

WTF? Consider me rustled!

I had Fester's Quest as a kid but never came close to beating it. I never liked 8-bit games that feature first-person dungeon-crawling as a mechanic, and I would regularly die at boss battles. I did find the overworld stuff reasonably fun and usually would spend the first part of the game just...

Yes, that's why. I don' think there's a plague of KKK members infesting Twitch, but there are clearly a lot of immature assholes who think they're being funny when all they're doing is making things worse for everyone else. A Twitch stream isn't your buddy's basement where you can giggle and...

This is why we can't have nice things.

There's no rule against nominating the same game more than once so don't worry about repeat nominations.

Had an infuriating moment yesterday. I was farming Oruborous in order to get a second Lapis Lazuli for what felt like an eternity. I was relieved when it finally dropped, then died on my way to a save point. I would have survived if I hadn't been too lazy to change my equipment and/or use some...

I did start over in Luck Mode and just finished clearing the regular castle. While the early game is pretty tough (I died at the guy who drops my first sword), eventually it kind of balances out and starts to feel pretty similar to regular mode. While I found more rare drops than usual...

Now accepting nominations for April's Retro Game of the Month. 1 nomination per person, first 10 will become part of the poll.

You're right. You can sort your items by pressing square on the left or right hand, but NOT from the item list itself. Definitely not intuitive. While I'm griping, it would be nice if there were a visual cue to let you know when a status effect wears off. I'm equipping Alucart gear and the Ring...

One of the harder bosses, Galamoth (the very big gold guy) was giving me trouble until I remembered to get the Beryl Circlet first. It makes electric attacks heal you, changing the battle from an exercise in futility to a joke (still took about a billion hits, though). I love the "reunion"...

It's a great setup, too, that doesn't explicitly tell you there's more game to be had, let alone how to access it. If you don't feel inclined to seek out every hallway you eventually get access to, you end up beating the game with what seems to be kind of a downer ending. But by indulging in the...

I can't even "solidarity" Fanaskin's Ricky Gervais tweet. Fuck this censorship bullshit.

You say "criticism", as though people were making reasonable points but being a little rough around the edges about it. That's not what happened. They had an agenda. They wanted to discredit her completely, to "expose" her so she would be ruined, and they went over every detail of her life with...

Accuses me of intellectual dishonesty, uses straw men to make his point. Can't explain that. I never said or implied that a person isn't responsible for the statements they make. Sarkeesian is absolutely responsible for every word she's ever said. Her words weren't the catalyst for her becoming...

Well, that was anticlimactic.

No.

I figured you meant "they" as in the media, right? The media elevated Sark and gave her greater visibility and influence as a direct result of the punishment they saw her go through. There is no goal post pushing here. It was never a super-serious thing she was talking about. It's a feminist...

They didn't choose to do that until a large group of entitled man-children decided to launch an all-out attack campaign against someone for having the audacity to talk about boobies in video games. Pop-culture critic criticizes video games from a feminist perspective: Not much of a story...