It was an apathy joke, not a rape joke. They could've inserted any kind of terrible event in place of rape and the joke would've worked. Observe.

True, but if she had run away screaming, he could have just as easily shot her. I guess when faced with an AK-47, what do you have to lose? If they want to shoot you, they'll shoot you.

First, let me say it's been an honor to have this conversation. I enjoy debating, hearing opinions, and comparing them with my own to shape, change, and strengthen my own opinion is a wonderful thing. I hope it's been as good an experience for you.

I'm sorry, but that way of thinking is naive and unrealistic. Since this thread has gone on enough, I'll summarize. If I were to write a novel, I wouldn't constantly be thinking "am I using the right honorifics so when this is printed in Japan they won't think I'm a heathen" or "I hope the type of animal I'm writing…

Code of Princess's character design is a woman. Apparently if women decide to draw sexy women or dress sexily themselves in real life, it's virtuous. If any man likes female sexiness, then HEINOUS sexism. Hypocrisy and double standards everywhere. Not to mention good old fashioned sex shaming.

I had the same problem. I sat apart from everyone else in science class, maths, history. Any lesson where my friends weren't with me I was classed as the weirdo. I worked in the library at dinner time with like minded students so I got some peace and quiet as well as early lunches. If I went downstairs it was to join…

when the absolute worst thing about an article is that the book it's covering has a wordy title, it's a good article.

i think that this really mirrors a lot of the people who were very young for the heyday of pokemon, when the anime and games and cards all blurred together and became a lifestyle.

I didnt play games.

I…

After learning about this I moved the cursor, pressed the button once, and said to myself "heh, that's dumb and I'm pretty positive whoever put it in thought it was dumb too, moving on, back to the game." I also chalk up my nonchalance about it to my experience with Japanese media. I've been watching anime for 13…

I feel I could make a good argument, both for how women in games are presented poorly and how they need to be treated better, and against Anita Sarkeesian's argument, which I perceive as being more effective at entrenching people in their belief systems than in solving any problems.

I have no issue with making the commentary elsewhere, and may do so over in Talk Amongst Yourselves at some point. The tl;dr version of my stance is that her level of argument is on par with, say, the people who wanted to ban To Kill A Mockingbird because it was "about rape" (which, as we all know, just isn't true).…

OK, that makes more sense.
So you basically enjoy focused, coherent, and logical (if not contextual) genre/tone-bending (like in The Last Airbender. It's a thing.). Is that correct?

Great question.

"This tonal whiplash—the juxtaposition of light and dark moments throughout the series—is perhaps the anime's strongest aspect."

Wasn't this exactly what you didn't like about The Severing Crime Edge? You refer to the the tone as "genre" in that review, but here it's suddenly ok?

I don't understand how this game is beneath everyone's radar - you're the only one that mentioned it on this entire thread, and the new E3 demo received very little coverage. It will be very disappointing if it takes Project Rainfall MK2 for us to play this game.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Tech Romancer for the long gone, but not forgotten Dreamcast. A love letter to all things mecha from the creators at Capcom.

You're very very right. As a follow atheist I often wonder why I can bitch about how Christianity is runing the world but when I mention Islam everyone glares at me.

It seems to me that one of the great powers of any nonviolent movement for social change is the power to draw attention to the situation and shame the oppressors. For this to work other people who are not part of the situation have to look at the situation and speak their disapproval. This is the mechanism by which…

"Too much talking not enough action."

Actually, weirdly enough, I found the episode of them getting to the boulder to be one of the best episodes of the series.

I disagree.