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To be fair, just because a woman designed something doesn't equate to that something automatically not being sexist (anymore than a man designing it means something is sexist). Scale can be seen as a contributing factor. A highly sexualized character who is but 1 of 1000 characters of that gender is different from 1 of 2. That doesn't make it *bad* in and of itself though surely, and ultimately, execution is what matters? Edit: Typos - when will I get a message without typos out today?

It's own little version of the blood wars down here on the boards. Fight XP / no Fight XP = Law / Chaos axis ?

Wouldn't, logically, this argument be applied to all of video gaming? Its frivolous so why debate it? And sports? And TV? And Movies?

I've seen some women support it and some women not support it. I'm not sure "support" really matters since everyone views things subjectively anyhow. I would like to highlight how ridiculous this is. "I've seen some women support it and some women not support it." So you mean, just like men? Yes, I do. I think we need to be clear that race and gender (and even philosophical belief) does not make us monolithic group entities devoid of personal thought or taste. I find the idea that you have to agree to A or else you're not B to be a scary notion and unfortunately one that is being pushed all to often within these online debates*. *I'd argue that its also the chief reason people have an "us vs them" mentality with respect to these events and in particular (and worrying, IMO) are perfectly willing to not listen to anything the other side says. EDIT: Typos

I'm loathe to comment on the animation without any context to understand it. Its very easy to take a snip of something without context and then mentally create the context for it. Edit: Typo

I'm not sure it was a good concept. Which is (IMO) one of the problem with most games' approach to pick pocketing. The item really should be relatively small and in a pocket. You shouldn't be able to pickpocket a cloak, a sword, a shoe, etc. nor should you be able to plant items the size of, say, dynamite into a pocket. Problem is you'd have to actually have a way to design what is actually in the pockets and where the pockets are (IMO) for it to work right, and I don't see it worth it, really (unless you're creating a pickpocketing simulation game)

I've seen some women support it and some women not support it. I'm not sure "support" really matters since everyone views things subjectively anyhow.

In some ways, I think large scale adoption of self-driving cars are inevitable (whether they're good or not is almost beside the point). Too many people will see the benefit and believe the risk is acceptable.

Your secret is safe with me. I won't tell anyone. Unless I forget and tell someone. Nobody is perfect. Hmmm, would have sworn your name was Veecee Bruce, Mr. Bruce.

Its all well and good to debate abortion, but the real controversy here is that Cantousent isn't his real name. I admit, I died a little inside when I found out.* *Definitely true for specific versions of the truth.

If horses are in-game, than the answer to "werehorses?" is "in the game" Thank you, thank you...I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitress.

Back in the day, there was a whole fansite dedicated to answering that question... ...which I guess retrospectively they failed to answer since the question still plagues us to this day. Glad to see another answer though to the eternal question...

Hmmm, well I played D&D, Gamma World and Star Frontiers in the early 1980s. In 1985 I played SSI's Phantasie which I loved (the idea of being able to recruit random monster classes was a hoot). Played some other mid-80s RPGs on the C64. Didn't have the money for a good computer, and ended up moving over to consoles for awhile where I played things like Phantasy Star, Shining Force, Final Fantasy. I decided to break down and buy a computer around the time Baldur's Gate was coming out and reviews for it led me to buy it. That then led to Icewind Dale and Fallout and Fallout 2 when I finished BG.

Not a big fan of respecing (I usually just restart the game if not happy with my choices and create a new character from scratch). That said, I could see some lore related reasons (say a Diety granting a respec into a priest class after a quest) for it being in a game. And I'm not sure a lore related reason is absolutely necessary; really depends on the game and whether it fits that game.

True, but child murder(I'm counting Jason Todd as a child because he was a teenager) is also a fairly abhorrent crime by most moral and legal standards. Furthermore, Batgirl being sexually assaulted by the Joker is at best implied(IIRC Alan Moore said somewhere it wasn't his intention to do that in TKJ and most people I talk to about comics didn't really take it that way) while Jason Todd being brutally beaten and murdered was explicitly stated and shown. Yeah, but IIRC Moore has said he can see why people read it that way and Brian Bolland has said he read the script that way and drew it that way. Yes, but variant covers don't always match the contents of the comic. By this logic, wouldn't the Skoottie Young baby variants or the selfie variants DC did a while back also draw criticism for not matching the tone of the book? Sure, they don't. They're also kind of irrelevant, so getting upset over one seems meaningless. This cover didn't fit the book. It wasn't approved by editorial on the book but by marketing. It was a meaningless variant cover that ultimately had no bearing on the book itself.. If we were talking about the real cover and changing the content of the book, then its a different scenario. This though? Its a tempest in a teapot, IMO.

Do you know who the characters are? Invincible and an alien whose name I can't recall. She raped him because she needed to reproduce and didn't want to have sex with a human. Yeah I don't know the alien either. I remembered it was from Invincible. People weren't that happy with **** Grayson getting raped in his title a decade back either. Because murder and rape aren't the same crimes? Because the book that was on (I'm assuming its a cover because I can't find the book it was the cover to) wasn't just relaunched as a light, fun book?

Censor... :D Fair enough. TRIGGER WARNING (if this is even allowed to apply to men). It's comic strip about a woman raping a man and then telling him to "man up", it's sort of graphic NSFW: http://s23.postimg.org/45i39zfbf/CAXDa_Vi_Uw_AA2ys_T.jpg http://s23.postimg.org/jofj73nm3/CAXDa_Vg_Ug_AATxuz.jpg http://s14.postimg.org/l3qzlzugx/CAXDa_Vi_VAAAoehc.jpg There was quite the outrage over that scene at the time it came out.

^Superman went through a phase where he was always crying on covers. It was usually because he couldn't stop something from happening (as opposed to being in the control of a villain).

People confuse initialisms for acronyms more often than they do irony for coincidence. "I saw Mary at the store today ... No way! So did I. How ironic!" we blame the japanese. why not? they like to turn initialisms into acronyms. ufo is Not a word. oofoe? HA! Good Fun! U-foe is how it was pronounced on the TV show.

No, DC Comics changed a variant cover that was created by marketing as a retailer incentive after concern that the cover - -referenced the potential rape of the main character* -didn't fit the tone of the current book -wasn't approved by the creative team or the editorial in the book because it was commissioned by marketing -the artist agreed, in retrospect, the cover wasn't appropriate to the current book The disturbing thing to me isn't that they pulled a variant cover (not even the actual retail cover!) but that so many people seem to think that blocking anyone who disagrees with them - no matter how benignly - is the appropriate response. *While it wasn't his intention, Alan Moore IIRC has admitted that there's a lot in the text that could imply sexual assault of Barbara and IIRC again Brian Boland has indicated he read it as a sexual assault in the script and drew it accordingly. Within that context, had Barbara been at the mercy of any other bat-villain I doubt it'd have been as big an issue.

Truly UNCHARTED territory.

To be clear, this was NOT the cover of the issue. This was an alternate cover - an incentive varient for direct market stores to buy that was created by DC Marketing (a "Joker" month) and not approved by editorial or creative on Batgirl. The Batgirl title recently went through a revamp to make the character lighter and funner (the previous version had been pretty grim) and generally speaking the creative team/editorial felt the cover was inappropriate to what they were doing on the title. That Albequrque asked for the cover to be removed only helped the case. I didn't care for the cover but it was an alternate cover that I wouldn't buy. Since I wasn't buying it, I don't care that DC isn't making it. EDIT: To be clear, as a variant cover, its irrelevant to the issue. Had this been intended to be the real cover and tied into the storyline of the comic, there would IMO be justification for argument that there is an issue with creative storytelling by removal of the cover. But there isn't here, IMO.

Are you talking about Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition? Because I don't recall there being any subclasses or kits in the original Icewind Dale (as, IIRC, it came out before BG2 which was the first to have kits). I think ID:EE though ports over the kits from BG2 into ID.

Be interesting to see the community try to rise to the challenge.

I admit Nipton was always a place that bugged me. Vulpes Inculta has a line that says something like "if you don't like what I've done (in killing the town), try to kill me" and then when you try to kill him everyone attacks. Didn't you hear the man? He said I could attack him!