I think the general aesthetic of Warhammer 40k, and the general nature of the setting, is that when mankind has spread so far across the galaxy that it can’t even remember how many colonies it has, let alone manage them all... human society, when viewed as a whole, becomes a pastiche of pretty much every bit of…

You can also play the original Doom in GZDoom, don’t forget.

Yeah, but surely a “zen thing” involves the balancing of good and bad, light and dark. With 2 Sith and an absolute *legion* of Jedi, it’s not just a numbers thing - the force can’t be in balance when you have such a bias. It’s not like the story is suggesting that the force itself is somehow out of balance; the force…

Of course, maybe the various corporate entities deciding which shows get to be exclusives should learn that when you make a show completely exclusive to specific subscription platforms... you’re cutting off a whole lot of people who either won’t, or can’t subscribe to that particular service.

And thus, piracy ensues.

If…

“healthcare through health insurance marketplaces...”

It never ceases to amaze me that every Christmas, America churns out new versions of A Christmas Carol... all gleaming white smiles and heart-warming moments of self-sacrifice and compassion...

Then the entire population goes right back to being the most bizarrely…

Cargo definitely earns bonus points for really not being the kind of movie you’re expecting it to be.

Triangle was pretty good. Except it was a bit too dismal, and wasn’t nearly as well crafted or intricate - in Time Crimes, you get to see exactly why literally everything that happens... happens. Even if there are a couple of moments of motivational confusion.

In Triangle, they just kinda imply the existence of loads…

THANK YOU.

Yeah, especially since he also somehow screwed up training a new generation of Jedi so badly that he turned his sister’s kid into the new dark lord wannabe.

Although that being said, they *can’t* use the “I thought you died!” excuse, because he’s a damn Jedi. Are we really expected to believe, after his little “Leia!…

“Maybe she is the fulfillment of the prophecy to bring balance to the Force.”

Er, except didn’t that already happen? The force was out of balance because there were a crap load of Jedi, and like... one Sith + apprentice. Dark side needed more representation, or the light side needed culling.

So all the Jedi get killed,…

“But large parts of the bottom half are just a brown wasteland...”

Except for the entire area around the city of Vivec, which is either... you know, multiple open-world cells of the city itself (plus its neighbouring town of Ebonheart, which is actually almost the size of a city in Skyrim terms), or rolling green…

But then in your words, the start of DR4 “...leaps into a bloody and hilarious dream sequence where Frank chases his past self while blowing up tons of zombies...”

I guess I’ll have to watch some gameplay clips or something.

I’m curious about this tone issue in this regard then - Dead Rising 2 was full of really glaring tone issues. You’d be dressed up in a stupid costume, doing stupid things to kill zombies... then suddenly the story would be all about conspiracy stuff and getting medicine to your daughter, with at least one character…

Yeah, that’s the same place though. You go past those trees, there’ll be the quarry. You remember the one - the sandy quarry where all the slaves are working, or where a spaceship has crashed, or where an archaeological dig has been set up, surrounded by trees?

And I don’t think you’re quite grasping just how cold and…

There have been lots of people talking about this in recent times - about how Trump *isn’t* “just objectively a horrible person and people are terrible for voting for him” - he was an opportunist, and there were a *lot* of pissed off people in America who weren’t actually being listened to; a whole lot of people (like…

Incidentally, everyone is wrong, because Homeworld is the most hopeful science fiction franchise of all time.

I mean, just listen to the song it has at the end:

Stargate: SG1 - in which it is revealed that all the planets we might explore look like a quarry outside Vancouver.

I dunno, man. That’s pretty dark. If I thought the entire universe was that cold and grey, I’d abandon all hope.

I really don’t get why anyone would think Doctor Who is hopeful. It’s the most dismal series mentioned here.

In nearly every story revolving around humanity, it is revealed that humanity at multiple points in the future does unspeakably evil things for the most petty reasons. Hell, it’s even revealed that mankind is…

“...The war we fight is not against powers and principalities; it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams... against this peril we can never surrender.”

I think the ending to Season 3 sums up the underlying message for the entire series. The most dark…

I’d say it’s very optimistic. The fact that humanity managed to outlive the sun is quite an achievement - and it’s never implied, even in the case of the Vorlons, that evolution has reached its final stage. That we’re destined to become wannabe gods, the end. The Vorlons themselves end up learning something about…