In which I start out the new year with typical rage…

Here’s your daily dose of fail:

1. Princess Peach is unplayable in the New Super Mario Bros. because it was too hard to animate her skirt. I’m sorry, what? A) Is the rest of the clothing on the other characters so realistically rendered that to not be able to achieve the same level with Peach would ruin the game? (Answer: we’re borderline 8-bit here, people, “quality of clothing animation” is not why people play this game.) B) Can she not wear pants? Even if they absolutely have to be pink because she’s a princess, she can still wear pants. Maybe I’m asking for too much, since clearly “Mario, Luigi, and two random toadstools must save the Princess!” is the plot.
2. The Associated Press put TWO HORSES on their list of Top Ten Female Athletes of the Year. I don’t follow sports very closely so I can’t say who should be on the list instead, but I feel that I am quite qualified to say that perhaps the two replacements should at the very least be human.
3. Stuff White People Do*: enjoy white-guilt redemption fantasies, a.k.a. Avatar. It’s actually a link and some choice quotes from a great article on Gawker, which sums up pretty nicely all the really upsetting racial issues in the movie. My white guilt moment: I feel like I really should have addressed this shit better in my own review.

   * Not to be confused with Stuff White People Like

4. Holy crap, disturbing vintage ad, words cannot describe.

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