Recent content by HanabPacal

No, it is not solely a product of sexism. It is the product of many, many underlying factors working together in very complex ways with a resulting final product that could be called sexism/sexist. Pretty much nothing in life, no matter how much some of us might want it to be true, is the...

You don't have anything to be sorry about, as you didn't do anything wrong. It's just unfortunate that with the overwhelming use of slang coupled with the overwhelming desire to paint others unfavorably that we have to tread so cautiously through the minefield that so many everyday words have...

I get that, as I'm sure some others do as well. Unfortunately, too many people overreact to they very idea of a word (most of the time through socially accepted bastardizations of the real meaning) and become fixated on their anger/offense rather than on the message which was being imparted.

Is it really a knee-jerk response? Do you know for certain that Fiery Trainwreck didn't put some thought into it? He/she certainly seems to grasp that the product was made by a corporate mentality - for a corporate mentality, and what that can/may mean for consumers. Now, while the post...

I provided a little commentary for my top three and for some of the lesser well known/likely forgotten titles. 1. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ? Shadow of Chernobyl (The ?X-Labs? alone were worth the price of admission. SoC is creepy, mysterious, tense, bleak, beautiful and dangerous. It has provided...

Great post Rafael. I think your take on things is absolutely spot-on for the situation. However, I also believe that this has been growing (more like festering) as a larger, more encompassing issue for a while with both gaming ?journalism? and BioWare. With BioWare it?s not just that...

While I understand the sentiment of the OP and personally don?t find myself attracted to those kinds of topics, I don?t see any harm in them in either. You and I, Wandering_Demon, (and others) may find topics like these (What?s your favorite X?) uninteresting in general, but you have to...

Sorry, Volf, I was simply reiterating because of the fact that people don?t seem to want to grasp onto the fact that what Hepler and Flynn did was wrong, regardless of the events leading up to their comments.

For some reason many people believe that addressing an issue with professionalism means simply ignoring the situation, or at best limply putting forth some politically correct appeasement. This is not true by any stretch of the imagination. Unfortunately, all too often, people that put forth...

From a number of posts that I?ve read in this thread there seems to be a recurring (and very erroneous) belief that acting professionally means not acting at all. This is absolutely not the case. There are a million ways that Hepler and Flynn could have addressed this awful situation that...

The following is a post that I made over on the BioWare Social Network (BSN) for this topic. Unfortunately, even while I was writing this lengthy essay-like post I didn?t really expect any kind of discussion from it to emerge there as it isn?t on a level of extreme, which is the standard...