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A lot of the appeal of PA is the genuineness of the guys running it. There is no middle man, there is no one monitoring what they say (except for Khoo, and he doesn't appear to do much about it). They certainly have the resources to put a PR team together, but they choose not to because that...

No one is talking about threats invalidating an entire "side". What I'm pointing out is that the fact that these threats existed make it much more understandable to see Mike react in the way that he did - something that the blog personalities I highlighted earlier deliberately fail to mention.

And if rape were the only topic that people objected to in comedy, you'd have a point. But it's not, so you don't. Everyone has things that are unpleasant for them. Some less so than rape, some more so. If you declare them all off limits, you've dealt a mortal wound to comedy. So don't. What...

Rape is terrible. Absolutely horrific. Life-shatteringly, soul-crushingly debilitating to go through, and awful to even be adjacent to. But that isn't unique to rape. Rape isn't the only horrible thing humanity has to offer itself. Murder, dismemberment, bullying, bigotry, grievous bodily...

Yes, it is. The people they are responding to are the people who accused them of being rape apologists, or of promoting rape culture. Those people deserve to be belittled. If you aren't one of the people who was conflating the PA guys with rapists, you weren't who they were satirizing. Did...

I think they were well within their rights to respond as they did, given how they were being treated. It's telling that the only way people can build support for the idea that their reaction was uncalled for is by falsely characterizing the initial reaction to the comic as "reasonable", instead...

And because it's important to say, his guns weren't "I support rape," but rather, "I'm a comic artist, and your personal trauma or trigger doesn't mean that I need to restrict my own comedy, or that I need to apologize every time I draw something someone might find less sensitive than required."...

Exactly. And, like I pointed out, I think the answers to those questions are, "No," and, "Unlikely, but they wish it had," respectively.

Now, see, that's a fallacy. ("One part of his post was an ad hominem argument, therefore the validity of all of his arguments is in doubt.") I don't think you understand what I'm doing. I'm not trying to convince anyone that Mike or Jerry or Khoo or whomever is "right" (that's a fool's errand...

And if that were the totality of my argument, you'd have a point, Umbran. (But you had to skip two thirds of my post to get there.) It would be, if people (like some of the bloggers highlighted above) were not doing everything in their power to mislead their readers into forming conclusions in...

I don't think it's fair to say that. In fact, I have literally seen many of them talking about how they need to "send a message" to Penny Arcade that they can't be allowed to do what they did. If they're doing it for themselves, why are they making and publicizing blog posts about it? More...

I understand that a handful of people have decided to take a stand on this and "boycott" PAX, but given that they run three massive, annual conventions and that they all sell out within days (if not hours) of tickets going on sale, I think there's precious little chance that there will be any...

It's worth noting that the change is probably indicative of a large number of community accounts being deactivated by the switch, rather than the result of 10,000 subscriptions disappearing over the last five months, and is further evidence that the number displayed in the group membership...

A person taking a survey is not in a position to determine the utility value of the survey.

IIRC, it's fairly well-established now that what you're suggesting is one of the main factors behind TSR's decline - having to support many different games with many different target audiences meant that each product they put out was sold to a small fraction of their total customers...

Look, if your discomfort is actually because you don't like e-readers in general, and you have enough experience using actual e-readers to feel comfortable judging them as inferior to books, then that's cool. But you spent pages explaining how you don't like e-readers because of a bunch of...

I'm talking about general e-reader use, not about using them at the D&D table. The people I'd heard those complaints from were not D&D players, just people I know or had spoken to.

Again, the Kindle Fire is a tablet, and not an e-reader. If you check out Amazon's product pages, you'll note that the Kindle Fire is marketed as a full tablet that you can use to read your books, while there is an entire separate list of e-readers designed specifically for reading. What you...

You're not following me. I'm not saying that I don't understand where they're coming from. I'm saying that almost every complaint they had was factually false. You saw it in this very thread - people complaining that e-readers are heavier than paperbacks (false), that they suffer from glare...

I'm not forcing you to defend your experience. I believe that the experience was uncomfortable for you. I also believe that that's because you weren't actually using an e-reader. The problems you're experiencing are likely due to the fact that a Kindle Fire is a full tablet computer, and weighs...