So, basically, you want someone to give you an OR for free? I can’t make out what you’re asking for given the level of doubt you currently express. I mean, short of that, why ever believe anything you’re told that you’ve never directly experienced?

Soooo ... you can’t ever respect or appreciate something you haven’t directly experienced? That’s scarier than anything in this article ...

Then which fears get maintained? Fears of something “real?” Can you even define what makes something real? Can something, like an idea, or an odor, be more or less real than something else, such as a table or a pear? Your argument is predicated on absolute knowledge of all things in the universe, so, either you’re…

This simply can’t be true or “horror” franchises wouldn’t exist in any medium. I follow your logic, but the human brain just doesn’t work like that. Then again, I’d put money on this being an attempt at trolling.

err, if the series is horrible, why are we sharing and talking about it? Not trying to be a dick, I just wonder if I understood that wording as it was meant to, as I feel I don’t.

I always found it interesting how, for the bulk of MK’s early years, Sub Zero seemed to be propped up as something of a mascot (even getting his own game), where as I always thought Scorpion looked cooler ... even if the only difference was a pallet swap.

Better than raging over something, which only works to keep you angry and makes you more easily bothered by it, is to remove yourself from whatever’s bothering you and occupy your mind with something else.

You’re not making a strong case for PC’s by behaving like a condescending nerd. There’s something to be said for showing people the respect of not being irritating to interact with (in fact, it’s a great way to further your own interests, if at least by not making more enemies). Saying “we’ll stop being annoying when…

See, it *is* bad, but I totally am not reading it that way. To me, he’s saying “I know I can’t meet the guy, but we have the same DNA, the same soul, whatever you want to call it, and I know he was important to you, so, for what it’s worth, and it might be worth *something,* if not a whole lot, I think he’d be proud.”…

you know, it’s not very satisfying, I admit, but this actually feels rather accurate for their characters. a big part of being Batman has historically been “not wanting to open up about anything to anyone.”

It’s also not a person, but a character, whose name is made up in the first place. As addressed in the article, it’s not something someone in Japan would actually use as a name (unless they were trying to be like one of those people deliberately going with an unconventional name, like “Apple.”). Here’s another…

English dubs only got bad in the past several years as anime's popularity in the west declined. They were pretty good for a while though, in spite of what the nerdiest of the nerds said.

I stopped reading at “We’re conditioned by movies and the likes to think that all people can speak eloquently, but that’s not the case.” It’s not the case because it’s certainly not the case in movies, either, where dialogue is terrible, awkwardly/unnaturally worded, excessive and crammed with exposition. You make the…

video game coverage isn’t garbage, it just isn’t creative. It doesn’t help that the people on YouTube most commonly referenced constantly make fools of themselves and are largely viewed as morons. The only people I know who watch these things do it because they’re bored and are fascinated with figuring out why they…

This feels a little presumptuous. The conclusion I came to was that whichever city won got to dodge its doom (presumably taking up permanent residence on the new planet). It just seems *too* silly to conclude that the city is doomed either way, even if the information given makes that seem like the only logical…

I love a lot of Japanese culture and history and think the nation offers a great deal to the rest of the world, but, Christ, if they don’t, as a nation, have a habit of thinking they’re inherently superior to everyone (if they weren’t also largely modest about everything, they’d be worse than the States about it).

to be blunt, it doesn’t really matter if you’re over it or not. It’s still perceived to be offensive and people shouldn’t just ignore that. Ignorance isn’t really an excuse for anything, especially if there’s been a widely public fiasco on the subject within recent memory. If people don’t want you to do something and…

yeah, your last point, that struck me as the most randomly masturbatory comment I'd read in a while. And, as far as I can tell, there's very little basis to believe it, at least certainly here in the States (though online gaming gives me the impression the only people who really think that it's a huge "draw," in the…

of course, that's also a thin line in that, when creating a fictional character, if they try and it ends up "going too far" they get slammed for being racist.

Don't look at it as literally what's happening but "Hey, here's what this feels like."