don't worry

i think you're massively misinterpreting, nobody feels like a 'unique snowflake', we might have a language barrier, i am fundamentally a game journalist and not your educator, please seek out further resources

oh yeah, of course. problems with our cultural treatment of and understanding of rape also affect men who've been victimized.

Ask me your question.

"men suffer most" from rape culture... men are being oppressed by these norms...???!

i'd appreciate it if you did some more self-educating before bringing these issues here for discussion. cheers!

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Yeah. If these girls apparently "don't see" how great they are and only hang out with "assholes" then a normal person would pick to hang out with people that like them

Short answer: I care about things and I write every day.
Long answer is in my incredibly dated but still basically useful FAQ http://sexyvideogameland.blogspot.com/2007/02/official-svgl-faq1111.html

I think it's so funny that social media exists for people to put out there so much about themselves, yet it's considered "weird" for someone to say a simple hello in real life.

I never am uncomfortable with or weirded about someone coming up to me and just being like "hi, just wanted to say I like your articles" or something. I experience a lot of anxiety when I meet people I know from the internet too, but I find that just being like, "hey, I wanted to meet you because I've followed you online for a while" usually causes them to be nice to me.

Boring, I know, but I like plain cheese. I'm good with just black olives, too.

I can't even stand still on a skateboard without flailing and crying

Well actually that's our target demographic: Young men who are just so nice that it's impossible to understand why women do not immediately pull their panties down when they meet them. We try to present a rich and lifelike universe where things are as fair as they ought to be in reality. I think truly nice classic gentlemen enjoy our game because it presents relationships as they should be: Where picking the right answer from a series of options actually can lead to a "win", i.e. sex. It plays into that belief that we all have, that sexual relationships are a prize at the end of a skill tree that begins and ends with "niceness." It's just one of the ways we try to make this game "realistic"

Oh man. I'll always be in love with the set of GDC 2012 "commercials" they made. Even the user text on these YouTube uploads is perfect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5KvIB12-s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71DIStv4MPA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq3bXwVPChQ

I also like the one where they are eating at Sonic and talking about how Sonic sucks now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI6Agm1-kY

If there were actually some way I could contribute something funny to a Mega64 video IT WOULD BE A DREAM COME TRUE. I would probably be best suited to star as an inappropriate Mega64 superfan who comes up to them at conventions and over-enthusiastically quotes the sketches because that would be pretty much reality

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Oh, I'm glad you liked it! I am such a big fan of that game -- of text adventures in general, but that one was a beautiful, universal act of craft.

(If you're just tuning in, we're discussing this http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/30/interacting-with-fictions-eurydice/ )

I usually only follow people I know/official feeds for stuff I'm interested in, so I don't follow back fans.

I occasionally will if I ask twitter to help me with something and someone really goes out of their way for me.

No, there isn't, but it seems like there should be, huh? Stay tuned.

What was your completion percentage?

That's a big "other than", though.

Well, it's important to know that Brooklyn is an enormous borough. I tend only to occupy the bits that lie along the quintessential L train from Manhattan -- Bushwick and occasionally Williamsburg -- but there's Park Slope, Prospect Heights and lands beyond, of which I've diminishing knowledge the further south and east one goes.

But as regards my hood: Definitely see bands at DIY venues. OhMyRockness.com is a good resource for show listings with venue information. My favorite cocktail bar right now is on the south side of Williamsburg; it's called Maison Premiere and it has the largest absinthe menu in the country, apparently. And oysters, if you like oysters. It's pricey but worth it, as I haven't had such good cocktails before aside from Peche in Austin or the Campbell Apartment in Manhattan's Grand Central Station.

Have brunch. My favorite places to get proper brunch are Tandem bar on Troutman Street and the 983 Flushing cafe. Both are best on a Saturday or Sunday between 11 AM and 2 PM, if I'm thinking correctly (I just got back from Maison Premiere; I might not be).

There's Barcade, the bar-arcade in Williamsburg. See, Barcade is fine and all, especially if you like craft beer (I don't), but there's this thing where any game nerds just get really obsessed with going to Barcade all the time like it's some mecca. Dude, there's arcades in every laundromat! It's just video games!! Go to a cooler bar!! But yeah if your friend has never been here before and he wants to play proper arcades he should probably go by Barcade at least once, I'd endorse that.

Union Pool at the Lorimer stop is sort of cool if you're a tourist who wants to be all, "look, girls with asymmetrical haircuts!" Northeast Kingdom is the restaurant I wrote my crappy little game, "SAVE MERLIN THE PIG", about, if you want to do video game writer amateur text dev tourism (haha).

There's a thrift store on Thames street called Urban Jungle that is totes worth doing. Me, I'm often at a bar called Heavy Woods on Wyckoff but if you see me there don't talk to me about video games, k?

I really dig the HD collection, yeah. MGS3 is the best game of the series and is also first chronologically, but which one to start with is a subject of debate. I find it takes effort even for me to get back into MGS1, it's so old. Lots of people love 2, I don't so much... I dunno, people who hang out with me seem to end up playing 3 then 2 then 4 then 1, but that's entirely arbitrary. Play MGS3 HD! It's an impeccable video game!

I don't really have a favorite developer. I like different studios for different reasons that go beyond their games; their talent, their tech, their philosophy, culture, the way they treat their employees, their audience, etc. Then there are studios that seem kind of miserable places to work that produce brilliant stuff, so it's tough to pick favorites.