Recent content by spockface

That's not actually entirely true. Being vegetarian saves about 100 animals per year simply by reducing the demand for meat. That said, even taking your premise as given, I'm quite happy with limiting my veganism to minimizing my economic support of animal slaughter and cruelty, because...

When I adopted my 'tiel, I made a commitment to her to keep her safe, healthy and happy. I have made no such commitment to the OP. My 'tiel wins. Also, "there is a serious lack of empathy in the modern world"... because people will save their beloved pets over strangers? There are no words...

I'm a woman, so it's nice to have the option to play a woman, and usually I'll take it. It's kind of a pain when the male and female characters' stats differ solely based on their gender -- I didn't know female characters in Oblivion were better mages than fighters, and vice versa for male...

I haven't seen anybody mentioning the angle that many queer people are aware that they're queer, at least on some level, from a very young age. I was peripherally aware by the time I was seven, and some well-done queer characters in the TV I watched (although admittedly I didn't watch much)...

My partner told me once that I do a mean Spock face. I was unreasonably amused, and adopted it as a default screenname.

I'm somewhere between vegan and strict vegetarian, so no meat, dairy, eggs or honey (although I am allergic to dairy, so I have two reasons for avoiding that).

All other things being equal, a well-drawn queer character would make me more likely to want to play a game. Especially if it was made clear that at least one relationship option was actually queer and not one of those hermaphroditic-alien-who-only-uses-one-set-of-binary-pronouns copouts. *sigh*