I know people who lived under the German occupation and they still cannot pronounce the word "German" other than through teeth clenched in anger for what they went through. The Dutch community that lived in Indonesia during the Japanese occupation have the same strong feelings against the Japanese, as the 1971 visit…

Avengers didn't task itself to reinvent the genre, it didn't try to fill a quota of "gritty and dark", it didn't try to subvert or second-guess its own theme. It put a major comic book battle on the screen and did it a straightforward way. Sure it has its weaknesses, but it works.

What bugs me most about MMO's are the arcane systems built around tiny incremental increases that have to mindlessly chased for hours on end or that require you to become a professional team player and endlessly repeat the top tier quests in the hope to get that mega-rare drop that will boost your critical attack…

The original Planescape Tieflings were "plane touched" which meant one of their ancestors had some intimate dealings with a denizen of the nether planes, not necessarily demons. They would have a very diverse range of unsettling features, almost every Tiefling being unique, ranging from the horned devil look, fangs,…

I would contend it's not the first "mobile" D&D in the broader sense of the word :

At least they didn't use some Pac Man sound effects from 30+ years ago.

I think the replica could be a Denix, made in Spain.

It's not THE She Hulk, it's Lyra, Hulk's daughter from an alternative universe/timeline.

I'm old enough to remember a time where if you played video-games you were part of a tiny underground minority and most other people were doing boring stuff like chopping wood, smoking pipes or adjusting their sock-suspenders.

The internet made it possible for me to communicate and meet with people I would never have met in a thousand years of real life personal interaction. Granted the time spent browsing tropes or watching cat videos is wasted, but it seems that the alternative is sitting on the couch and becoming a recluse.

S-Seith is the kind of cosplay that ends around 3AM at the local police office.

All I can say is that these parents are doing their best to raise a generation of emotional cripples that are incapable of critical thought, terrified of everything that doesn't fit the narrowest possible world view and predisposed to follow political and religious extremists, their heads filled with fear, hate and…

God never plays Simcity, her assistant, Norbert on the other hand a bit too much ...

I've heard this kind of talk dozens of times before. Fact is that the powers that be think their business model is the best there is and only a fool would want to change it. Just look up how much trouble Maxis had trying to get the Sims published because EA just wanted them to release upgrades like their yearly…

When we are out and about with our club we tend to tip at fairly eyebrow-raising levels and waiters remember us clearly even if we only visit once a year or so.

Real men use a DUKW

Ewok stem cells

This is the first step towards our grim future ...

It's not weird or uniquely Japanese, it's all the fear and pressure accumulated by the performer to conform to a certain idea their audience has of them. How many stars pretend they are still looking for "the right person" or are "happily married" to somebody they hate or have no connection with, just because it's…

The Python team had no clue when they made this sketch :