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? ?Straight Male Gamer? told to ?get over it? by BioWare No More Lost. BioWare adopted a (sadly) very special and very principled stance in designing one of their recent games, Dragon Age 2.

? ?Straight Male Gamer? told to ?get over it? by BioWare No More Lost

Their stance was simple: relationships are for everybody, whether gay, straight, or anything else in between. You can also have have more than one romance at a time with the game’s characters. In this game, everybody is equal. Too equal, it seems, for one particular straight male gamer who was upset to be on the receiving end of a little flirting from another male character in the game. The reaction of this Straight Male Gamer? 6 Depraved Sexual Fetishes That Are Older Than You Think. Bizarre sexual fetishes are a staple of the human psyche--most everyone has them, and with the arrival of Internet porn, all the walls came crumbling down.

6 Depraved Sexual Fetishes That Are Older Than You Think

Suddenly, everyone everywhere could share their sick, nasty fantasies with the entire world, safe under a veil of anonymity. But the Internet by no means invented these things. As it turns out, they've been around way longer than that stain in your Honda. Tentacle Rape - Late 18th Century We love to mock "tentacle porn," and Japan for inventing it. The modern tentacle rape genre was created by Toshio Maeda, whose manga Urotsukidoji "created what might be called the modern paradigm of tentacle porn," which we suppose in Japan is actually seen as an accomplishment rather than grounds for a sexual assault conviction. Dorklassic: 7 Girls You've Dated And Their Videogame Console Equivalents. October 4, 2010 The Super Nintendo You never forget your first time.

Dorklassic: 7 Girls You've Dated And Their Videogame Console Equivalents

Back then, you didn't care how "edgy" or "cool" a girl was, you just wanted to have fun. Pure, sweet, innocent fun. Sure, she wasn't the hottest girl you'd ever date, but she had personality. The Playstation Look, you were young. The Virtual Boy She looked different than any girl you'd ever dated. The Xbox 360. 7 Annoying Types of Gamers (Page 2) 1. Inspector Gadget This guy loves all the bits and pieces associated with gaming. He actually bought the Nintendo Power Glove and the Virtual Boy. Ramblings of a colorblind gamer- Destructoid. You may or may not know that I am red-green colorblind.

Ramblings of a colorblind gamer- Destructoid

Money looks grey to me, pink looks white, brown looks green. No big thing. Since I was born colorblind, I have no frame of reference for how the world is "supposed" to look and, therefore, I'm not constantly in a state of misery and woe over the fact that I can't differentiate maroon from purple. If anything, colorblindness works as a great ice breaker at parties. Learn From SingleAgain’s Fail - Learn From My Fail #LFMF. Most Upvoted 488 votes Mr.

Learn From SingleAgain’s Fail - Learn From My Fail #LFMF

No Doesn't Wanna Catch 'Em All. 201011191019.jpg (JPEG Image, 442x700 pixels) - Scaled (92%) KKK and the Religious Right Agree: We Hate Gays. You may or may not remember a blip on the national radar named Jennifer Keeton.

KKK and the Religious Right Agree: We Hate Gays

Keeton is a student at Augusta State University, who decided it was possible to pursue a career as a school counselor without ever having to deal with LGBT students. Turns out you kind of have to, Keeton didn't want to, and she was told to straighten up and fly right or pursue her courses at another college. So she did what any fine upstanding Republican would do, she filed a frivolous lawsuit defending her right to live in a world of her own imagining. Not super-interesting or earth-shattering, so the story went away, for the most part. The 11 Most Racist Video Games. They Won't STFU. SNAPSHOTS. How Did Metroid's Samus Aran Become A Female Character? Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs. Fratboy Girlfriend TD - Free Strategy Game from AddictingGames! The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters. These old Disney movies are a little bit like your aging Uncle Frank.

The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters

Honestly, he means well when he points out that Will Smith is "well-spoken. " It's just that he, like the assemblage of clips below, dates from a time when people were unfairly characterized by their ethnic background (the acceptable methods are, of course, religion, geography, sexual preference and income).

The Merchant from Aladdin The opening musical sequence from the hugely popular 1992 animated film had to be edited due to protest from Arab-American groups for saying about the Middle East what most of us were merely thinking. Lesson Learned: The Middle East is a barren wasteland where the justice system runs on a clear and simple limb-removal policy. Dorklassic: Every Woman You Know As A Character From Mario. After the Nintendo came out with the new Mario Kart for Wii me and my buddies logged quite a few hours getting reaquainted with its cast of characters.

Dorklassic: Every Woman You Know As A Character From Mario

One of my friends was having some woman troubles at the time, so somewhere along the line the conversation arrived upon the female sex, and their various gender specific attributes. The combination of Mario, and some healthy drunken gender bashing led me to a complilation of the varying types of woman and her corresponding character from the classic video game.