Recent content by wench

I get really attached to my games, I have to admit, so there are quite a few. Mass Effect 3, and Dragon Age 1 & 2 are the big ones. ME3 in particular had me going through boxes of tissues. At this point, even parts of the sountrack make me tear up.

If it's a game I'll repeat, I'll usually play once on hard and then switch to hardest once I get a good grip on the combat mechanics. Otherwise, I'll switch between those two. For something where I do a bunch of playthroughs, I'll switch lower to speed up the story. =)

They gave three really blatant "dude, I'm into ladies" warning-gay-kissing-ahead prompts to head that romance off at the pass... and you don't even get negative points like you do with Anders. It doesn't change from friendship to romance until Purgatory - everything before that is like his...

Fair enough! If someone was using it in a hurtful way, or around someone who wasn't ok with it, I'd totally be all over them. Definitely - and it's an area with a whole lot of gray and some jagged borders - total minefield. I feel like pushing the boundaries on it a bit helps to move the...

Yeah, you've totally lost me here. I could have bought some of your original arguments, but at this point... Look, you don't have to actually lynch people to be racist. The fact that you're a racist who doesn't kill people puts you on exactly the same ground as the sexist who doesn't rape people...

Didn't have enough room in the yard for it, so I opted for a beaver instead. =) Been here 11 years now, and not planning on moving back to the States any time soon - I'm loving it. There were a lot more cultural differences than I was expecting, but it's been a good ride.

I speak for myself, because it would be silly for me to speak for anyone else. I promise I don't see the world as revolving around me, but I'm also not going to make statements of opinion as if I represent anyone but myself. That's more a question of careful phrasing than one of massive egotism...

On this topic, one of the things I've found really difficult to deal with since I've moved to Canada was the level of racially-based yet good-natured teasing that goes on between friends here - more openly than what you're describing. Freaked me right out at first. I've adjusted a bit since then...

Absolute nonsense. Being a feminist does not require that I take offense on behalf of people who don't need me to - how arrogant would that be of me? I can provide references if you need to check my feminist/queer (bi)/union/socialist credentials. The fact that a word can be used to hurt people...

Sorry, what I was saying was that the existence of men in a book is not inherently sexist, not that a book with only men in it wasn't sexist. Personally, if a book is handling women characters well for its' time period, I don't tend to stick it in the "sexist" category. He made an effort to...

Look, I'm a massive feminist, but calling a character a ***** in a positive manner doesn't actually hurt real women (if you think it does, feel free to link to the research showing that - and yes, I mean research and not "literary criticism"), and more importantly does not even remotely have a...

I'm not sure if I'm totally misunderstanding you here, but I don't see how having a character be male instead of female in either situation would be sexist. Having fewer women characters can be a definite expression of sexism, or a sexist society, etc... but just having men be in books is not...

Sorry, missed this bit! It's in most of the European languages, original books are in Polish - I read them in Spanish, myself. Really slowly, admittedly, because for some deranged reason they never covered the terminology used in basilisk-slaying in my Spanish courses.

I have yet to hear anyone actually point out what in the game is sexist, despite a lot of people saying it is. Can someone give me something a bit more concrete? I'm willing to concede the point, but I need a bit more to go on than there being a lot of sex and the protagonist being male...

You almost had me with you right up to the "pansy" comment. Sure, I think that characters should be able to have depth - and that includes negative aspects. But there's a line between the character being one of those things and the game just flat-out supporting those attitudes.