• 30Nov 09

  Violence against women in 616

  
  
  I have been rereading the entire run of Thor and ran across a panel of Thor hitting Sif; this connected in my head with other instances of male Marvel heroes hitting the women they purport to love. I'm sure if I dig around a little, I can find instances of Tony Stark and Peter Parker doing the same and I'm sure Hulk has smacked every woman in the Marvel Universe, certainly he's pummeled his cousin, She-Hulk multiple times. Presumably, Captain America is above this sort of thing, but I'm kind of scared to look too deeply into it for fear of what I might find.
  
  I can only imagine the atmosphere around the Marvel Bullpen allowing such casual backhanding (at least Reed did a palm slap) of beloved lady friends.
  • Posted Nov 30, 2009 10:51 am PT
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• 6Nov 09

  My mail to Infinity Ward

  So by nature, I'm not political at all but the more I thought about the now-infamous grenade spam video and the "Oh we got called on this" reaction from IW, the more pissed I got. As a result, I have canceled my preorder for MW2. I'm not encouraging anyone else to do the same or trying to organize a boycott or anything of the sort, but thought I'd post my message that I sent to IW explaining my decision.
  
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  After giving it a great deal of thought, I canceled my preorder for your sure-to-be-excellent shooter Modern Warfare 2. I have played every Call of Duty since COD2 and have always enjoyed the excellent polish and game balance they provided. However, in light of the infamous "grenade spammers" video and the extremely tepid response from IW on it, I don't feel that I can purchase games from you in good conscience.
  
  I realize that your game will still be wildly successful, but as a gay man myself, I can't help but feel like my business is not wanted or valued by Infinity Ward. I know that the video was pulled, but the statements that I've seen come out were very half-hearted and had a tone that makes me believe that there is no regret for having made the video in the first place.
  
  I will miss playing future games from IW, and hope that a more pronounced response will come allowing me to partake of your excellent game and the great games that I expect you all will make in the future.
  
  Thanks for your time,
  • Posted Nov 6, 2009 10:04 am PT
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• 25Oct 09

  Just a couple recent things I noticed

  First, Apple writes dialogs like a speaker of English as a second language. These are the guys held up as paragons of usability? It would be nice if they buttons they tell you to click ('Yes' and 'No') actually existed on the screen.
  
  
  
  Second, Stan Lee suffered from SEVERE short term memory loss, as demonstrated from this panel in The Amazing Spider-Man #3
  
  
  
  Edit: To be fair to Stan Lee, maybe Doc Ock just can't see who he is fighting through those glasses, but you'd think he'd at least know that Superman doesn't shoot webs...
  • Posted Oct 25, 2009 3:46 pm PT
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