Well now it just makes LESS sense that you'd denigrate it! What part of that combo is in any way wrong?

Player of Games is my favorite Banks novel, in large part because of his handling of Azad. Of course, his ability to conceive it so well is probably the exact reason he wound up addicted to Civ, an obsession he drew on later for character material in Complicity.

On the AV Club? Afraid so. Two minutes in the box.

Planet Buster the Believers from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Is.. is there some function to 'hate' posts?

This is going to need some explanation.

They have a strange staying power for me, too. I think it's the whole mythology that's emerged. We may fight about every other issue large and small, but no matter how heated the argument, our friction is soothed by the universal understanding that Dawes is there for us all.

If you like sighing into the darkness while too weary to reach for the bourbon, and you haven't read Ishiguro's Remains of the Day.. well, do that.

I couldn't even take the complaint seriously. I just assumed he doesn't actually know what poutine is besides ha ha Canada, because honestly there's no other excuse.

This is one of those situations where the movie is a pale shadow of the book. I seriously wouldn't bother.

Excellent work. These moms and the teens and adults who watch them are just indulging in an adolescent fantasy. Who are they harming, really? Why can't they have their fun?

HEY!

Plus Twilight Princess had some hilarious shit to it, like the spaghetti western town that involved first killing a slew of bad guys and then rescuing an equal amount of kitties.

Moral Panic? Is that one of your emo bands? You're right, though, a commentariat that's 25% English majors by volume wouldn't have a prayer of engaging a subject as hopelessly esoteric as "the history of literature." Especially not on the page of comments immediately before this one.

Yes, but Ender's Game is cunningly—almost fiendishly—written in such a way as to absolve Ender of all guilt for every one of his brutal acts, up to and including the genocide of an entire species.

Commenters have already been talking over the exact things you won't deign to discuss here. If your views on Twilight and sexism are as reductive as your take on a forum of over 100,000 people, I'm glad you won't even attempt to bring them up.

Nobody's going to come to your house and set your bed on fire for saying the reasons they dislike Twilight are sexist. Saying "This place is too sexist to even begin to explain how sexist you dumbasses are" makes you look like a MUCH bigger jackass than if you actually made cogent points about that sexism.

I don't understand the post and I refuse to respond to it.

Dozens of accounts between (if I'm remembering right) numbers 100,300 - 100,700 were created for the sole purpose of bitching about that Uncharted 3 review. Might have doubled or tripled their average number of new accounts that day.

And remember when the Church of Jews spent $25 million to deny civil liberties to California's gay population?