Yeah, many of the Ratchet and Clank games actually have a pretty darn good story. That said, yes it would take some effort to polish them up to true greatness, and that’s probably more effort than they wanted to put into this adaptation.

The idea that there’d, “never been a flame war on the io9,” community, struck me as a rather acute example of self deception. Meaning no offense to the io9 community, I just feel it’s rather important for people to be open with themselves.

Again, you say that, but I’ve seen io9 posts get ugly even when they haven’t been shared. No community has a perfect track record, no matter how much they would like to insist otherwise.

You know, you guys say that, but I’ve been commenting on gawker comment boards for many many years. I have seen the comment boards devolve into rather ugly flame sessions on multiple occasions in the past. I’d rather not be apart of that anymore, my patience for pettiness has disappeared over the years. You can call…

Honestly, as a person who doesn’t care one whit about culture wars. I kinda liked last years line-up a bit better. I mean there were a few items on there that probably didn’t belong and all that, but there were at least a few books on that list that I enjoyed and all that.

What most of these cities have in common, is that they’re either valleys or nestled in among mountains. This sort of poor air quality happens when an inversion layer forms, trapping airborne pollutants in a relatively small area. This sort of thing happens a lot more frequently when you have a mountain on at least one…

I get why they borrowed so heavily from A New Hope, and The Force Awakens certainly isn’t bad by any stretch of the imagination. That said, uh, A New Hope was kinda, better, and I wouldn’t even consider it the strongest of the original three.

They could’ve at least tried to match the color scheme, but whatevs I guess. <_<;;

Yeah, the movie isn’t perfect, but it’s not horrible by any stretch of the imagination. And I’m sure a few of those problems can be laid at the feet of a studio mandate. I mean that whole, Thor splashing in a pool scene for example. I’ve heard that was the Marvel Execs insisting on scenes to get people excited about…

“But I can still get things off the top shelf for you! ;-;”

Saddens me to see time finally catching up with Miyamoto a bit. That whole Peter Pan vibe he’s got going for him is one of the most endearing things about the guy.

Not that this has disappeared mind you.

Which is actually pretty much what I’ve been trying to say. The unconscious mind handling certain tasks doesn’t mean you’re, “not conscious.” The unconscious mind is just as big a part of you as the conscious mind. All this data means is that there’s a slight input lag between when your unconscious mind reacts to…

“a blue eyed sex robot”

Except that the mind does begin to process visual information immediately, and can react to that information more quickly than it takes for the conscious mind to react.

Overly broad statement is broad.

I kinda get the impression that some executive or producer insisted on some big names to drive ticket sales. So now everybody else is scrambling to try to make it work despite the fact that this was a really bad idea.

To be clear, again I tend to believe that you should hire the best actor for a given role, rather than…

Bear....man....?

Yeeeeeah, and that does seem to be what the author of this article is essentially asking for, doesn’t it?

Sure, but the writer of the article is saying that the, “movies,” should put this in context. That’s not really fair since again, these aren’t documentaries.

Besides, are we going to put up a disclaimer on every film or television show based on a story written before, lets say, 1940? Because some degree of racism was…

You can’t really put that into proper context within the context of a piece of narrative fiction however. In short, it’s a movie not a documentary. Heck, the movies don’t even have all that much to do with the source material as far as I understand it. XD