Recent content by aesshen

Girliest: I spend even more money and mental energy on clothing than I do on games, though maybe not more time. Also, I cry at the drop of a hat. Manliest: I'm a math major, and I think about sex about as often as teenage boys are supposed to.

I think that it's possible to fulfill the purpose of a marketing stunt like this - that is, to get people talking about domestic violence - and still to have fucked up pretty badly. It's on a pretty small scale, but the ends don't justify the means.

This is a bit OT, but you kind of have to wonder what the economics are of assassinations these days. You don't hear about major business and political leaders getting assassinated all the time like they are in movies and games. Aren't most actual hitmen pretty low-level, or in countries where...

... oh my god. Can I marry you? I mean, I'm assuming you're a lady, so we could go to Connecticut. Otherwise, anywhere, anytime. YOU ARE AMAZING.

In middle school, I repeatedly had dreams where I was my Neverwinter Nights character, but I was fighting the aliens from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and everything was in Japanese.

Seriously? Knives. Whether it makes sense depends on the game, but there's nothing cooler than one person with a combat knife fucking up ten guys with machine guns.

I agree with the gist of most of your post, but are you serious about this? You think that you don't have the right to want something you didn't like changed in a game? Not even an infuriating inventory system or a messed-up difficulty curve? I think that there's a pretty strong relationship...

What I don't see is why games "just have" to be a "guy" thing. There are girls who game. That's undeniably obvious. There's you and me at least. Actually, there's a heck of a lot more than that - 10 to 30% of even "hardcore games," depending on how you count, so the idea that girl gamers are...

Gah. I feel your pain. I don't mind playing games as a male character if I find him interesting or attractive, but I just can't play any of the five trillion games with musclebound, grunting he-men on their covers. It's boring. I'm picking on this quote because it shows a lot of pretty...

There is a YouTube mashup of Buffy getting creeped the fuck out by Edward Cullen. Many people of my acquaintance regard it as the very essence of hilarity. They may not be wrong. Anyway, if they're seriously doing another Buffy movie... why is it that Hollywood only does sequels and remakes...

What's depressing is how common this kind of attitude is. People think that the games you play (or TV you watch, or porn you jerk off to, or whatever) will somehow affect the kind of person you are. I mean, I'd be the first person to agree that the images and ideas we get from our material...

"Video Games: The Phantom Menace." Although I think "Apparently I'm A Public Menace" is cute, too.

For someone who talks a lot about reading comprehension, I don't think you understood a word of what Seanchaidh said. An empty construction site can't commit a crime. A moving car can't commit a crime (although its driver can). Someone in a bar who decides he has the right to rape a girl because...

And I hate misogynistic twats. Funny coincidence, that.

So if you pass out drunk at a bar I have the right to steal all your stuff and then murder you painfully? Hmm. Think I'll take you up on that.