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By outward, I assume you mean the opposite of what humans have? If so, my guess would be it's easier to pull things (like food!) toward yourself when the digits bend inward toward the body, and so it's naturally more advantageous to evolve that characteristic over time. But I ain't no evolutionary biologist so.

Oh good! I was starting to get worried. That took way longer than they told me it would.

PHEW! Good thing I never bothered to change my avatar in all this time.

not anymore you dont

wow ken is a genius

Fuckin' Skull Kid Figure Collector's Edition Majora's Mask 3D goes on sale today... and is already sold out everywhere. Argh. Normally I don't care but it's Majora's Mask. ARGH.

those are the ones that sting the most ): Okay I'll stop being a downer. Good luck!

I wish it worked that way, but I don't really believe it does. Maybe it's different in not-San-Francisco-AKA-startup-central. It probably is.

ditto except it's cause i'm lazy

You'd also be surprised at the number of companies that interview you knowing full well you're under-qualified and then give you an immediate "we can tell you have potential, but you're under-qualified" the day after the on-site interview. Sorry, I guess that's not what you want to hear. But ugh it happened to me so many times. Hopefully it doesn't for you!

That seems to be the general consensus, which just makes me mad they don't patch in controller support (and the other cool stuff?) so I wouldn't have to get a console to play it the best way. C'est la vie. The other general consensus is that Reaper of Souls fixed most of the problems in Diablo 3 on PC.

Don't forget when he said white privilege isn't a real thing because some white people in Ireland are looked down or whatever.

I actually know a few people who have bug out bags and they're not the kind of people who would shoot someone for fun. Honestly, it's not a totally bad idea to have one, although it is pretty paranoid. Not to say it ain't weird to get super into it though. 'Cause it is. Weird. Weirdo weirds.

yeah totalbiscuit is a total goober

As usual with language, I fall on the side of "eh it's a word people will get used to it or they'll come up with something else". I don't necessarily disagree with you, but if that's what people use, that's what people use.

Well it's a very specific kind of harassment, innit? The relentless "WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER MY QUESTIONS, HUH??" kind of harassment. Whether or not that needs its own word I guess is up to the individual but I like it. It works for me. Though it's possible (and probable) that most people read it as harassment in general, I suppose.

haha grad school enjoy never being out of debt sure hope you got a scholarship ;_;

See? SEE?! Best Indiana Jones movie. Hands down.

Oh okay. Yeah there's definitely potential there. And now that you bring it up, it's weird how transphobic gamers can be when they're quite often playing as opposite genders with no qualms whatsoever. Well, maybe I'm projecting. I've tended to play as female characters more often than male these days when I have the choice (maybe my growing feministic tendencies?), but I guess the typical answer is "if i'm gonna stare at an ass all day", etc. I think I just talked myself out of any optimism regarding gaming culture. Anyway back to Log Horizon: definitely definitely potential. I'm hoping, but not really optimistic, that they'll do something cool with gender identity*. I... I say I'm not optimistic because, as I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I'm not as happy with the direction the series has taken this season as I was previously. As much as I loved William Massachusett's (THAT NAME, SO GOOD) speech, most of the series has seemed to focus a bit too much on the Gaming part. Thoguh I say that but I guess I really really liked the conclusion to both the Akatsuki arc (although it was a bit flat) and the Shiroe arc (so baller, loved how the raid boss was afraid because these enemies just kept respawning over and over and who wouldn't be afraid of that?). ...Log Horizon is cool. Except when it's not. Fucking (Minori vs Akatsuki) x Shiroe. *.hack//SIGN sorta did that, as I recall, with the main character being a male played by a female person, and I think I THINK there was a romantic relationship between the female-as-male and female-as-female characters? The main character was also in a wheelchair and also anyone who died in-game died in real life so whatever that was its own series.

It's not uncommon for people to use "dude" when talking to female friends. Well, it's not unheard of, is probably more accurate. It's definitely a man and a woman in that comic.

...Is it? Sealioning was coined from this webcomic: http://wondermark.com/1k62/ Yes, it was created in the beginning of GG, but I think people use it more to describe a specific harassment tactic, rather than GG specifically. I could be wrong, but I'm not! Or am I? I'm not! Or am I? With that in mind, it's neither a metaphor, nor an analogy. It's a new term for an old concept. EDIT: Oh I just read the "ethics" thread. Well, I still stand by what I said, but I guess I didn't need to over-explain it like I did. Whatever you don't know me!

i have known and recognized shounen tropes for a long time and i like 'em [...usually] so fuck all y'all ]';

I'm confused are you disagreeing with anything I said. Because I'm not disagreeing with anything you said but it seems like you might be?!

well i think it's just me and you watching but Yeah it's been mentioned that everyone who played an opposite-gender started out with their own voice which then changed. Tetra is... definitely very tropey. Worse than that she's just an annoying character, so it just amplifies the problem, as far as I'm concerned. Maybe she'll get better as the series continues. Buuut also overall it's not... outright terrible? It's hard for me to say since I often have trouble identifying trans issues in fiction. ): Are there others? I was only aware of Tetra. (I mean besides Akatsuki starting out as a dude before Shiroe gave her a potion to swap back.) I still hate every single episode where Akatsuki and Minori fight-but-not-quite-fight over Shiroe's affection with him being oblivious about the whole thing. I mean, that's such a typical anime thing to do, so you'd think i'd be used to it, but instead I just get more and more tired of it. Doesn't help that they're both extremely young in appearance (although Akatsuki is allegedly the same age as Shiroe). Ugh ugh it's the worst thing about the series.

Half of my gift has arrived! (Through Steam.) Last I checked, the other half has not.