Merry Christmas, if you’re into that sort of thing!

@Shadowplay

Don’t worry I’m sure the Gamergate will ride to the rescue defending the developers right to make the game however they want.

@Shadowplay
These are probably the same dudes who tell women it doesn’t matter that most games only give the option to play male characters.

Also, are they sure the sprites are female and not just long-haired dudes? At that pixel size there’s not much difference.

Speaking of technology, I spent all weekend battling Windows 10 updates just trying to keep my machine functional. Any of you folks that use Windows have probably seen that emergency security update Windows 10 shoved down your throat. Well, my computer hadn’t even properly updated to the Fall Creator’s Update because every time it tried, it would get to 75%, go to a black screen and just stall. A hard reset let it continue to 82%, wherein it would freeze without fail and require a rollback to the previous version of Windows.

And as long as these attempts to update were sporadic and unnecessary, I could handle this song and dance. But thanks to Meltdown and Spectre, Windows was interrupting what you were doing to download their security update then force a restart within 30 minutes. But you couldn’t just install that one patch, noooo, it had to be the latest version of Windows 10 first. That meant my machine was virtually unusable until I figured out how to get that damnable Creator’s Update finished. 8 attempts later, I was downloading the Windows 10 ISO for a manual reinstall USB thumb drive. Even after uninstalling any antivirus and firewall software, it continued to fail on the Windows 10 reinstall at the same point.

I could only conclude that one of the umpteen programs or drivers I had installed over the past six years was interfering, so I ultimately blew away all my applications and started with a fresh version of Windows. The silver lining is that I didn’t have to copy over my personal files and reinstalling my needed programs didn’t take too long. Still, it’s two days of troubleshooting I kinda want back. So thanks for being terrible, El Microsofto…..

(Just as an aside, it’s worth updating any devices that use the Intel x86 processor–which is practically everything short of scientific calculators. You don’t want to mess around with these vulnerabilities, from what I’ve read about them.)

I think the pussy hats were a stroke of genius. Because there’s no way the Rotten Tangerine can ever use photos of the Women’s Marches, and claim these were crowds of people supporting HIM.

That ocean of pink was beautiful!

So the Dems have caved on the shutdown?

So, those hats… they’re cat ears, right? I’m not grossly misinformed? ’cause during last year’s protests, we kept seeing people describing them as literally being genital-shaped, but… they’re cat ears, right?

It’s pretty much only the alt-right who thinks the hats are meant to resemble vulvas. They’re also the ones trying to prevent actual reproductive health education, so…

You know, I was confused as hell as to how pink pussy hats could be racist, but it turns out that people think that the color of their inner labia has everything the fuck to do with their race.

That’s one area where it doesn’t. Moving on…

Ok this is just funny…

“An anonymous hero is doing God’s work in the TwoXChromosomes subreddit this week. Spurred by an overheard conversation between two co-workers, the author—who’s since deleted his or her Reddit account—decided to explain the fallacy of the statement “the darker the vag the more dudes she’s been pounded by” and debunking “some nonsense about vag lip size and number of sex partners.”

“This misunderstanding of female anatomy exposes both the entrenched social prejudices around the vulva and the odd assumption that penises have such supernatural powers that they can cause immutable changes to a woman’s genitals. But it also speaks to the dearth of medically accurate, comprehensive sex education in the U.S., leaving both men and women with precious little information about their bodies.”

“Reddit users on the labia-color thread came up with a few equally plausible theories:

•Penises get smaller with every vagina they penetrate. “All men start with long ones but they consume them over usage,” wrote user calineko. “This is known in the scientific community as the pencil sharpener effect.”

http://www.slate.com/human-interest/2018/01/andrew-sullivans-ode-to-testosterone-is-rooted-is-stereotypes.html

the darker the vag the more dudes she’s been pounded by

Oh, great. Now I’m picturing penises as magic markers.

If they’re these scented kind, does the smell also linger forever?

http://static.adweek.com/adweek.com-prod/wp-content/uploads/files/blogs/mr-sketch-markers-hed-2014.jpg

Wait, so if they freely share their gift with someone, that person will also ruin the internal backup gift, but if their gift is stolen by some sort of Birthday Bandit, the backup gift will eject itself and return to them unharmed?

Okay, Third Hand Anecdotal Catholic Educator. You were doomed to fail the moment you set out to fetishise virginity as a luxury commodity that men deserve to enjoy. But your apparent attempt to exclude rape victims from your condemnation has just stretched your analogy to breaking point.

Big Boi is getting big, and still manages to be sooooo tiny:
https://twitter.com/DidiCarisma/status/955672510602899456

Now I’m picturing penises as magic markers

Magic Mark was this famous stripper who could draw curvy lines on the wall without using hands OR a sharpie. He had the pelvic moves.