Recent content by Devin Parker

Sexist character designs. Is it okay if the women in the game I'm playing are actually treated like human beings instead of fetish models? Visible cleavage and battle bikinis are not acceptable replacements for personality and character development, and characters who are otherwise really cool...

Liminence - the sensation of being in love. Verisimilitude - the quality of realism in something. Thus, when speaking of "realism" in a game or movie, you can use "versimilitude" so that trolls won't chime in with a hundred variations on "It's make-believe; of course it isn't real."

Indeed, you do. The snail-eyed, vaguely racist face of every terrible decision Lucas ever made. He is the patron saint of Fail.

Thanks, I appreciate your clarity.

I didn't see a label at the beginning of the thread that banned any discussion of religious beliefs. The poster asked if it was right to give to beggars. If a moral stance based on religious conviction has no place in this conversation, then the poster shouldn't have phrased the question in...

So what I want to know is why are there low-level green items on the AH in WoW that are being auctioned off for ridiculously high amounts of gold? Every time I go to the AH, someone is offering something that might have been useful to my toon around 10th level, except the item has been priced...

If people have so much damn money that they're throwing it away on projects like this, why can't they just give it to me instead?

Quoted for truth.

So who's "job" is it in the Phelps family to read the Bible? I think they forgot to assign that responsibility. Oddly enough, I listened to an interview with one of the Phelps (I thought it was Shirley then, too) on Christian radio where she was confronted on the wackiness of WBC's skewed...

It's a drawing I made of myself. As a knight. Cuz I thought it would be cool.

She looks really good - as someone else said, it's hard to believe she was 100 pounds overweight! It's also nice to be reminded that fictional works can inspire people - that making this entertainment isn't just spinning wheels.

I'd be with Professor X, largely because I'm one of those people who follow that archaic, superstitious belief system whose Hero was persecuted, tortured and murdered but forgave the people who did it to him, and urged those who followed him to do the same. And He actually *was* better than...

I lament what Brannon Braga did to the franchise. So it's tragedy all around, I guess.

This.

PvP Penny Arcade Starslip Chainsawsuit Hark, A Vagrant Order of the Stick North World Girl Genius EDIT: Darths and Droids, which I forgot to add because it's captioned photo stills in a comic format, rather than drawn artwork. But funny!