Dear Blizzard Support:

I just had the, ah, “pleasure” of being matched up with a player whose username was Klitorectomy, which is rather obviously a mispelling of clitorectomy, or female genital mutilation. If you aren’t aware of what clitorectomy is, there is a succinct overview here: Read more... )

So Avatar, right? It’s pretty. We can all agree that it’s pretty. So let’s move on.


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Over on his blog, Rob Donoghue was saying, tangentially:
When a player buys a power or skill at a high level (like a fighting skill), he is communicating one of two contradictory messages. The first is “I am really interested in this thing, and I want to really get pushed hard within it” and the second is “I want to be good enough at this that I ( Read more... )

So everybody’s seen Star Trek by now, right? It was totally awesome, and really, just about everything that I would possibly want from a reboot of a very beloved franchise that I have spent a long time enjoying. Of course, you’ll notice I said “just about everything.” There’s one thing, and it’s not even a criticism of Star Trek so much as it’s ( Read more... )

Alejandro recently emailed me:
When we first met you expressed a disdain for fantasy novels. I told you about how “A Game of Thrones” is good and different. You said, and I quote, “No.” Okay, please express to me what it is that you dislike about the fantasy literary genre, and why.

So my problem with the “fantasy literary genre” is that it’s not ( Read more... )