People really should read the linked articles before trying to comment on them. I see a lot of people arguing against points that nobody is actually making.

I basically disagree with them on every point. I think a world where people can choose to indulge any sexual urge or frustration in private via robot (and/or VR) without bothering another actual person will be a much more pleasant place.

I would definitely argue that, because that’s what’s happening. The kid’s body is being exploited for tips. But since it’s the mom doing the exploiting, she gets a pass in some people’s eyes.

By my understanding, if you want to blow prints up as large as possible, you want a higher MP count. Depends how big you want your prints to be.

Kate Beaton 4 ever

Because for some people, getting attention on the internet for being a dumbass is preferable to not getting attention on the internet.

These are pretty weak examples of subverting tropes. Jessica expresses a little insecurity in a couple lines of dialogue, but otherwise is a total mean-girl horror cliche, including getting murdered/almost murdered in her underwear. And yeah, Sam can die at the very, very end. But it’s possible for everyone to die,…

I loved everything else about it. The bizarre far-future world, the odd characters that inhabited it, the crazy premise of the plot. I even liked the nature of the near-future world - it felt disturbingly plausible and real. Overall I still very much enjoyed the book. It was just that one aspect that fell short for me.

An argument isn’t automatically fallacious just because it uses “slippery slope” logic. A fallacious slippery slope argues that one event must inevitably follow another without any logic or reasoning showing how the connection actually makes any sense.

If you did go to Victoria’s Secret, they wouldn’t refuse to sell you undies.

You know whose dialogue I was extremely disappointed by? Gibson’s, in his latest, The Peripheral. Specifically Flynn, and all the characters around her.

White Noise and Cosmopolis are two of my favorite novels. I could never get through Underworld. I bought a used copy (friggin’ brick of a softcover) that kicked around my apartment for a few years, getting started and restarted but I could never stick with it. Maybe time to give it another go...

What a whimsical and cool drunk driver.

Babadook is one of the best examples (at least, in my opinion) of a story that works and is cool on both levels. It’s among my favorite all-time horror flicks.

The monster isn’t literal, it’s a manifestation of the mother’s rage and grief over the loss of her husband, and the difficulties of raising her son. She’s basically suffering a psychotic breakdown. She’s eventually forced to confront those all-consuming emotions, and her love for her son helps her get them under…

Only works if dick size was actually the major deciding factor in mating. Back in “caveman days”, the factors were more likely ability to hunt and survive, and for much of history, in most places, women didn’t really have much choice at all in mating or marriage, least of all based on the penises they preferred.

As the fiance of a jewish girl, this is one aspect of their nefarious global plot that I can really get behind!

Well yes, if society at large continues to treat sex workers as morally bankrupt, desperate, lazy sluts, then making the work technically legal does very little to help them. Likewise, if the cops still spend all their time harassing the workers and their customers, instead of going after the pimps and the human…

Reminds me of the bitchfest that accompanied the release of concept art for Faith from Mirror’s Edge, way back when. The devs gave her slightly angular, real-looking features, and some gamers flipped their shit because they consider any female character that isn’t anime-eyed, baby-cheeked and pouty lipped to be…

I like carrying and using a paper notebook, but more for informal journaling and brainstorming. A smartphone is just so much simpler for straight up organization - grab a calendar app and a to-do/list/note-making app and you’re pretty much set.