Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-9605025-20150328164912/@comment-9890645-20150407152311

People will always accuse others of cheating in online games. Hell, people accuse BladeRy of cheating when he scores lots of points in TVT. The difference is was that there were actual cheaters, and DeNA refused to do anything about them other than itsme, and her only crime was a single third-party purchase from a site advertised within the game itself. It took DeNA no time to ban her outright (and she was not only witch-hunted, she was harassed here and on FB), yet it took them months to ban people who were hacking the game code itself in order to gain significant advantages by buying things from the game at heavily discounted rates - which was worse for DeNA directly than what itsme did, and created a blatantly biased game environment for other players. DeNA was aware that something wasn't right, but their fear of reprisals from Google/Apple gave them cold feet. Hence why I went ballistic on them and quit the game for five months. Cheaters are cheaters, and you ban cheaters once you know they're cheating. Hell, Blizzard banned a lot of accounts from ALL their games when they did a check for botters in Hearthstone - two of my friends got banned in that. Fortunately for me, I wasn't running my bot at the time. ;)

My question about the petition girl wasn't rhetorical. But it's a psychological phenomenon that both men and women respond more favorably to an attractive female than they would any other type. Funny story from my college days: The Math club at my college was going to classes seeking members. As there was only one even moderately attractive female in the group, they sent her and a couple of the other ladies (nice women, but, well, quite heavy) out to talk to the classes. They were worried enough about their "cool quotient" that they enlisted me (who, while also overweight, had a mohawk at the time) to go with them to avoid the image of, "holy crap, it's the nerds!" despite the fact that I wasn't even in the Math club. (I was a math major though.) I got a free club shirt out of the deal. ;)

As far as the flimsy clothing, it is an American phenomenon that breasts are so overly sexualized, and there is a growing backlash against that (cf. public breastfeeding, NY's law allowing women to go topless on beaches). Funny we talk about this on the day I became aware of the #freethenipple movement on Twitter...