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What your brain does and doesn't respond to with dopamine is also mediated by culture and training.

Okay so, none of what you just said is really true -- or rather, none of it is supported by science. We don't know what the ancestral environment during which we evolved really looked like, and we have absolutely zero clue what gender roles looked like at the time. All we can do is look at...

Bearing children has nothing to do with rearing children. The nuclear family as a way to rear children is a cultural choice, not a universal truth, as is giving the mother the caregiving role.

Because we all know that your personal, anecdotal experience trumps that of those who have lived through it but agree with me (who I frequently cite) and actual data (which I always frequently cite). Nope, sorry, I'm not the one who's living in a tower. Other than literally. Even if gender...

No unoccupied confederate state abolished slavery during the war(Tennessee did so during Union occupation), and they only did so after the war under threat of violence -- Mississippi didn't ratify the Thirteenth Amendment until 1995, for instance. That they had the theoretical ability to abolish...

Welcome to capitalism.

"...A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the...

It took decades of political campaigning (starting around the mid 1780s) before a bill to abolish the slave trade went through parliament in 1807 (background information here), and decades more for the slavery itself to be abolished in 1833. I'm not sure how you can measure the lack of...

American slavery was a part of capitalism, sure. So were these other systems of forced and coerced labor. In the aftermath of the abolition of slavery, former slaveowners all across the globe sought to maintain their wealth and the profitability of their plantations and factories by (often...

Both of these things are factually incorrect. Slavery was the reason for the Civil War, both long-term and short-term. Nearly half of American wealth was bound up in slaves at the time. Declarations of secession referenced slavery as the institution they needed to build the American nation on...

Just curious, do you always deflect when the racism inherent in your jokes is pointed out by others? Regardless, data shows: black people spend far less on vehicle purchases each year than white people or any other racial group. Because, you know, they have far less money. This is, again, a...

And that is one racist-ass remark. Hispanic people are by and large more recent immigrants than black people, and yet have a much larger share of American wealth. In fact, a lot of non-hispanic white people are also more recent immigrants than the vast majority of black people, the slave trade...

From: http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/21/news/economy/wealth-gap-race/ From: http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/wealth-gap-yawns8212and-so-do-media/ Note that the disparities increased during the financial crisis. I wonder why there's a massive gendered and racial wealth gap. Oh wait, no, I...

lol the meninism in this thread Like, enjoy all y'alls strawmen versions of feminism to justify not doing anything about sexism, guys.

For the second time in its history (as far as I remember, at least) No Mutants Allowed has been the focus of some game journalism. Over at Kotaku, Luke Winke talked to a few NMA regulars (mostly me and The Dopamine Cleric), looked through the forums, and wrote up a pretty good article on NMA's...

Don't come in here with these personal attacks, please. If you disagree with someone, you don't need to do this.

I mean, we know what kind of games Bethesda makes. And there's nothing in this trailer to suggest this is going to be any different -- the hint of a voiced protagonist (grim white dude voice, of course) is grounds for pessimism, even. I'd call the "maybe it'll be alright" approach unwarranted...

Bethesda Softworks has finally, officially announced Fallout 4, a project they've been working on for a long time. In real Bethesda fashion, they waited until they had a full trailer including in-game footage to show the public before even talking about the project, even though it was common...

It looks like Bethesda is finally getting ready to announce Fallout 4. After months (years?) of rumors and recent strong indicators that the company would announce Fallout 4 at E3 in two weeks, the outfit has now put up a countdown clock at fallout.bethsoft.com. The clock seems to be counting...

Being pissed off that the creation of art is now more accessible to more people than ever before seems like a weird thing, to me.