Recent content by Phalene

You're not really considering the functional possibility that you don't have to have sex/relationships with everyone you find attractive (or that having sex precludes not being anything other than friends) AND that beyond hetro-normative expectations, there's plenty of people who lean bi or gay...

If they're REALLY being true to the source material they need to make two movies, one featuring a female lead and one a male one. ;)

I've never done it, since I live in Canada where the only things you could feel compelled to kill without some sort of serious criminal hobby (like bike theft or dealing off licence pharmaceuticals, this being banal-land) are four legged animals. Therefore all I can say about my abilities and...

On the other hand, you didn't answer my question, you merely pointed to a historical time when it was appropriate. Once upon a time it was also appropriate to refer to a black man of any age as "boy", from youth to old and grey. So no, I'm not going to shut up because you have no proof it was...

Historical accuracy and you, they don't get along very well, do they? Do you have anything to back up your claim, or did you just yank that from your hat because it sounded cool?

If sticks and stones n' all that don't bother you and you happily take all words like water off a duck's back, please enjoy your fifteen minute lecture on why treating a group of people with a high rate of persecution is so obviously a sign of being a person without soul or empathy, or at the...

No, actually. The religious myths, be they the Apples of Idun, the Garden of Eden (Christian, Jewish or Muslim version), or the tales of the Monkey King (or whatever) were written/created according to a world view that accepted the magic in the stories as plausible. As mentioned by another...

Uh... You realize that D&D started as a fan attempt at playing LotR? To the extent that "halfling" was supposed to be "hobbit". Tolkien INVENTED the fantasy genre as we know it. It's not a taint, per say, its deliberate design. Complaining about Tolkien influence on fantasy is like...

Oh my god. I just finished trying this game and it's absolutely ghastly. A boring click-fest, combining all the dull micromanagement of the Sims with none of the fun, playful sandbox part. One of the major problems with it is that it's slow. I mean, slow paced with really stupid quest...

It really depends on what you mean by feminism. Generally people take a lot of it for granted and only notice the egregious bits that stand out- so the word serves primarily to draw a particular sort of frothing at the mouth insecurity about things that bother men about the short end of the...

I guess it would be me and my faceless, Escapist issue shadow. I would hope something without a mouth needs no air or food or I'd be forced to eat her when she keeled over a minute after we suddenly popped onto the island. The scale of the island suggests a rocky crag with no food, so my...

Eh, I don't think he did a good job with the Sim3, however it wasn't because it was a bad game, but because it was out of his element. Things that made me dislike the game as a veteran player weren't within the spectrum of stuff he covered in favour of a cheeky franchise review. Basically he...

Generally, adulthood is better. If you're doing it right you get to play and explore, and there's sex, you're way less sensitive because a lot of the emotional whoopsies that happened to you in your teenage years are old news. Furthermore, a lot more of your ideas are your own instead of being...

Mine craft with minions. Need I say more? I breed the poor little buggers like sad little people shaped guppies, one part Tiger Mother (no, no fun for you! Become a doctor!) and one part petty diety (burn, little person, burn!).

I'll be happy the day I can buy games without the clerk either acting A)surprised and excited that a woman would touch anything that says "Half life" on it or B) Keep his @&%#-ing mouth shut when I buy a sims game. Doesn't matter if it's Future Shop's gnomes or a little franchise gaming store...