Exactly. You get it.

the real heroes are internet commenters who are always here to remind us how much everyone sucks

You can train a person on a lot of stuff in 10 years. You can't train a person on patience, compassion, discipline, and tolerance.

I pledge all of my disposable income for the next decade to make this an actual thing. Who's with me?

where can I send my money for more of this

Kickstarter itself isn't a scam. I've backed many successful projects. But it can be used for nefarous purposes, and there is risk associated with backing a project. But to call Kickstarter a scam is just wrong.

There was this guy today at the cafe, where we were the only two people in the room, and he kept on staring at me, while I was eating, doing homework, and using the phone. And as I was using Tinder, I saw his profile, it was quite racially charged and full of fetishization (think confederate flags, Yellow Fever,…

Swatting is just so unbelievably gross. It saddens me that people can have so little respect for the lives of others that they consider this entertaining.

The part of his logic that I think is the absolute worst is that if you are a internet personality, you have to live with the risk of being swatted. It's like saying you have a safe full of money, so you should expect someone to try and rob you.

Sarkeesian makes pretty good points. Writers and directors should do better than what they've been doing. However, I'm reluctant to say that violence against any single group of people should be removed from creative work since that has the potential to shut down a vein of narrative. I mean sure, "imagine better…

What is that distant sound, you ask?

A mostly forgotten Sci-fi flick?

The 1980's, post-Star Wars wave had a real...growth spurt/adolescence of scifi films which has never been matched. It wasn't just Star Wars, heck even "Jaws", the first "big summer movie" was relatively new; Old Hollywood had gone away within living memory; the idea of "movies aimed at teenagers that we base scifi…