I see this come up in comments on open thread Fridays and stuff, but can we collect a list of comics that don't completely fail at dealing with anyone who isn't an able straight cis white man in this post? Bonus points if DC didn't publish it. Fuck those guys. Webcomics count ( Read more... )

Did anybody else go to Free Comic Book Day? Any exciting stories? Scott Kurtz was at the store that I went to. :/

I realized something today as I went to GameStop to pick up Knights in the Nightmare, and I was wondering who else felt the same way. If this isn't okay, mods, feel free to delete/bahleet/Del Taco it ( Read more... )

Dragon Age: Origins Is The First Game About Gay Marriage & The Power of Mods by Robert Yang. SourceDragon Age is the world's first commercial video game about gay marriage. And now with that incredibly misleading and generalizing hook, let me explain ( Read more... )

So Bioware released the latest DLC for Mass Effect on the 15th - Overlord. In Overlord, you go to a world where one of Cerberus' many ethically terrible experiments on human beings has gone horribly wrong. In this case, they wired a man into a VI (virtual intelligence) to create a true AI in the hopes of controlling Geth. As a result, the ( Read more... )

When I posted last month about the marginalization of women in tabletop gaming, tehsp0rk made a comment about cross-gender roleplaying which got me thinking on the subject ( Read more... )

As some may already know, PAX (a gaming convention) has a ban on booth babes. Recently, the men running it held a survey asking if they should consider repealing the ban. The majority of responses indicated people either liked or loved that booth babes were not part of the PAX experience; another 20% reported that they were indifferent to the ban. ( Read more... )