Nobody mentioned StarCraft?

I happened to watch one of her videos last week, and I do share the opinion of the first +5 poster: "her videos are, in places, poorly researched with many leaps of logic mixed with heavy opinions. But, they still contain very valid points and can be civilly debated."

Specifically, and though she clearly does make some points about the way most female NPC are limited to eye candy, her general attitude towards sandbox games reminded me heavily of the Dungeon&Dragons-bashing of the early 80's: "Can you imagine that? In this foul game players can invoke demons! What would be a better proof that it's a satanic plot to enroll our younglings in the Army of Darkness?" without, of course, ever explaining to the alarmed parents that a RPG allows player to do anything they can think of, and that if they don't have a particular interest in the evocation of demons there is no reason for them to do it (BTW at least in AD&D first edition I don' think there even is a rule about demonic invocations)...

In Sarkeesian's videos, it translates as "Female NPC have no agency": Well, they're NPCs - maybe she should figure what the word means. And yes, female NPC are often not treated in the same way than male NPC and when she explains that she has valid points - but it's maybe 10% of her discourse, 90% being "women are NPCs in video games, oh the humanity!".
She even goes as far as saying that no woman NPC is depicted having her own agenda and personality - hellooo, ever heard of Sarah Kerrigan? I'm still in love with her as are probably half of all male geeks ever born, and we have only seen her face!
Similarly, one of her points is that in Sandbox games the hero is allowed to kill female NPCs: does she even understand the concept of a sandbox game?
Or when RedDeadRedemption makes fun of the Pulp trope of rescuing a lady bound on the railway, she uses it as a proof of how vilely misogynistic the game world is, without even acknowledging the parodic intention.

Actually... no.
Data caps on wired internet mostly exists in "capitalist" america, where the market is so free that it doesn't mind belonging to an oligopoly.
The rest of the world has competition, and usually no data caps (except on mobile services usually, which sucks too).

Phil and Kaja Foglio made their own report of the Hugo Awards: http://www.girlgeniusonline.co...
They take good note of the award for Time, by the way.

I think that Harper's made a big national survey in 2005(?) about the actual beliefs of american people who profess to be Christians (more than 50% of whose thought that Joan of Ark was Noah's wife, per example).
Long story short, the vast majority of American christians believe and worship the God who elected America as the Chosen People. You may be knowledgeable enough to understand that it's not exactly the Gospel one...

By the way, does anybody know how to use QQ/WeiXin on Linux?

I'd be happy to skip teasers, flashbacks, repetitions and idents; but to keep history lessons and fun facts (I don't remember seeing cartoons nor what is "we"re experts")...
Why did they cut these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Indeed? Really?
Please please please, pretty please with sugar on top, could you let them do it?
Accepting the UK was the worst mistake than EU ever made...

Patreon, or a public service equivalent.
Once one can't find a movie that nobody has pledged for (since it hasn't been shot in the absence of pledges), even the mythical freerider will find a good reason to patron artists and projects...

And had so many countries/populations to prey upon in order to finance this implementation of technology...
China is doing shady deals in Africa, but nowhere (except maybe Burma) do they have the means to exert really heavy predation.

Oh, I still can buy two cards, they just won't be Moxes nor Black Lotuses...

It's particularly stupid because there is not any limit of number of pages that Wikipedia can have...
I really don't understand why so much power of destruction is given to people that are obviously not up to this task.

Patreon?
It should be a public service, by the way...

I guess you know of this joke?

A young guy from Alberta moves to Vancouver and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”
The kid says, “Yeah. I was a salesman back in Alberta.”
Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did. His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down.
“How many customers bought something from you today?”
The kid says, “one”.
The boss says, “Just one? Our sales people average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?”
The kid says, “$101,237.65.
The boss says, “$101,237.65? What the heck did you sell?”
The kid says, “First, I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook.
Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Expedition.”
The boss said, “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a BOAT and a TRUCK?”
The kid said, “No, the guy came in here to buy Tampons for his wife, and I said, Dude, your weekend’s shot. You should go fishing.”