Ooops! I forgot Cpt. Archer. I regret nothing.

I’d go:

So when exactly did the internet collectively decide to turn against Joss Whedon? It still feels really weird to me to see an io9 comment section given over to bashing Whedon and saying he’s a total failure as a feminist. And then see his few defenders get derided and called delusional.

You do realize that just because a character is a shitty feminist doesn’t mean the creator of said character is a shitty feminist, right? It’s pretty clearly always presented as a flaw of the character.

Is he a perfect feminist? No, but I really don’t see why the “perfect” needs to be the enemy of the “good”. He’s written a LOT of strong, three dimensional women characters. Yes he’s dropped the ball here or there.

“Joss Whedon willing to be nailed to social cross again over single line purposely taken out of context.”

It is! I haven’t played in a while with all these games coming out but everyone’s comments is making me want to go back and revisit some of my powerful female rulers. Your story sounds fun but that is the charm of the game. Every player could create it’s own scenario and story! Paradox makes good games, I should look…

I have a “friend” that refuses to play as or engage with any female characters in games. I will never understand it. He attributes it to being an old school RPer, but that has never really made any sense to me, seeing how RPing allows you to do anything you want.

This reminds me of a guide I found on the Paradox forums for Crusader Kings 2 where you could plan your game so you could only have female rulers. It involved a lot of murder and planning using in-game mechanics, no mods. Brutal.

I learned something on the Internet, today!

I always saw the Culture as Banks’s riff on galactic organizations like the Federation. The Culture is basically the UFP without the Prime Directive, but if every Federation world was Risa and they left the boring things like running things, fighting wars and suborning hostile governments to AIs and…

On some level, I think Phlebas works as a deconstruction of the macho space adventure, much in the same vein as Harry Harrison’s Bill the Galactic Hero or M. John Harrison’s The Centauri Device. This becomes abundantly clear in light of the other Culture novels, though in the ‘80s readers might have been tempted to…

The Borg were inspired by the Culture? I hadn’t heard that before. Interesting. Especially since I’ve always assumed that the Borg are the most famous example of the “aggressive hegemonizing swarms” described in those books that the Culture stamps out when it comes across one. Though I don’t remember when book…

Nah, I’m really looking forward to season two of The Expanse, in the fond hope her soothing voice is going explain that everything is royally fucked because she is surrounded by fucking incompetent fools who should have listened to her in the first place.

I just hear Tali’s auntie now.

I didn’t even know I wanted this until I saw this post. But now I want it.

I really want to see the scene where Cisco names them.

Craig Bond is spinning his sword around all fancy and menacing.

“I’ve just read your report.”