The notion that the current system will conquer space, much less be like today, is a harsh blow against plausibility, if you think about it. Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism should be a challenge, not a guiding principle, not for SF. Except that it appears the claim SF is a subset of fantasy is designed to head off…

The festival of the bourgeoisie. Shameless and sickening.

An odd theme for Jewish Heritage Month.

I died about 20 times in the fucking tutorial area.

Will do! FFRK anniversary stuff keeps piling up, so that and The Walking Dead may be all I actually get to this next week, but I’m still super psyched for We. The Revolution. Just like you, I spent sooooo much time with that immense prologue and its multitude of moral quandaries. It’s a bit of a shame it feels like…

Salutations~!

Since someone extended it from tv shows to movies, I’ll bite:

“Hey, you’re stupid if you like this popular thing so you should pay attention to this other thing I’m talking about!”

I think what many people seem to miss when they think Ned didn’t play the game intelligently and the same mistake they make even more so with Jon is that Ned never wanted to play the game of thrones, he was just trying to do the right thing and that’s what got him killed and Jon certainly doesn't want to play, his…

The big genius of GRRM is not the shocking plot-twists per se, but the narrative feints that make so much sense they keep even almost apparent twists sufficiently masked:

In the book, you could tell that he was constantly haunted by some secret (“Promise me, Ned!”) which made it all the more surprising when he died before he could reveal that secret.

It was just one more thing that made me like him. He knew he was bland. He liked being bland. He just wanted to live in his cold dark castle with his cold dark wife. 

I appreciate the “closest thing we have to a decent man” sentiment here.

Yea, this was definitely a call-everyone-you-know-and-ask-them-did they-just-see-this?! moment. And if they didn’t see it, this was a call-everyone-you-know-and-tell-them-to-start-watching-right-now moment. Simply put, “Baelor” changed the way I look at TV.

The story line is only slightly more incredible than the real life story of the actor playing the executioner, Wilko Johnson.

To me, the brilliance of Game of Thrones is that Martin actually pulls this off not once, but twice. Ned is set up as the typical hero, and boom, this happens. Then, its only logical that the next hero is going to be his son, Robb, who is leading an invasion to take revenge for his father’s execution. Robb is young,…

I watched this episode with my dad. Neither of us had read the books, even though we’re both pretty big scifi and fantasy fans. But we were really enjoying the show up to that point.

The best trick the show pulls is leaving open the possibility (literally up until the last second) that Ned will be sent to the Wall, where he can live in exile with his bastard son. Since we’re already spending a lot of time with Jon at the Wall, we can see how this would work in TV logic — this is the kind of show…

I find that whenever I take breaks (whether voluntary or not) with games, this happens to me. If I have to work over the weekends, or travel, or... well, anything, I end up struggling to get back into games. I’ve been able to avoid it (for the most part) with Octopath because... well, it’s on the switch and I love the…

Hello fellow gamers! It’s my first post of 2019 as the late fall and holidays were super busy to end 2018. I plan to take part on this weekly thread more often this year.