Gizmodo takes ’em on: At CES last week, in addition to all the gear and gadgets, there was something else on display: women. As with many trade shows—especially ones aimed at a male audience—CES was rife with booth babes. Yet when the BBC ran a story on the practice of hiring scantily-clad models to stand around booths and draw stares.
I had a post started about a month ago about women in video games, but never finished so I’m going to revamp it now. I’ve been a gamer practically since birth, starting with a family-owned Atari 2600 (favorite game: Adventure) and continuing to present day (PC and Xbox). As with comic books, table-top games, and.
If you really aren’t interested in video games at all, you….probably won’t bother reading this post. But if you’re somewhat interested in them but don’t know much about them, you might not know that this weekend has been BlizzCon, the annual convention held in Anaheim, California by Blizzard Entertainment. Blizzard’s most famous and far-reaching games are.
Girls, keep out! Let’s say you’re planning a big party. Unfortunately, when parties like the one you have in mind have been thrown in the past, they have tended to attract…well, some assholes. These assholes direct their ire to and about a certain specific group of people, and it can be really obnoxious, making others.
The Psychologist‘s April issue is dedicated to psychology, religion, and spirituality, and you don’t need a subscription to read articles such as “The Cognitive Science of Religion” by Justin Barrett and Emily Reed Burdett. Update from the New York Times on the gang rape in Cleveland, Texas– it’s worse than we thought. Much worse..
Boingboing produced this video montage of deaths in the old school age of video games (Atari and NES/Sega mostly, for you young’uns). Along with the memories, the music is actually what makes it– it has a serene yet wistful feeling, bringing to mind the monologue at the end of American Beauty as though it had.
…this is pretty much the definition of it. I’m not sure if I want to write a full-fledged post on this topic or not. As you can see from that timeline it’s a controversy that has been going on since August of last year with frequent twists and turns, and no shortage of different perspectives–.