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The Puzzler
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I'm hoping the thing where guards stand around impassively while their lord is blatantly murdered in front of them is going to be a new running theme.

"What would America look like in 2020 after four years of a Boss administration?"
Correct answer: completely destroyed, along with the rest of the planet.

Either skulls are a lot weaker in the GoT universe, or weapons are a lot sharper.

It's one of those "depends on who's writing it" things. Some days Doom is a man of his word, other days he casually betrays people. Some days he's a brutal dictator who makes the people of Latveria live in misery; other days he's their beloved leader who has brought them into the modern age.

If a song's lyrics offend me enough to distract me and spoil my enjoyment of the music, then I think that's a perfectly reasonable thing to judge it by.

The 1980s comics they referenced were mostly the Frank Miler Daredevil stories that are being adapted on Netflix at the moment. So that gives it a kind of ongoing relevance.

Just Falcon was my favorite character.

You can get a virus from trying to watch a video file if you're not too good with computer security. "If you cannot see this video, you may be missing the latest codecs - click on this download link and install the software to update your video player."

It's hard to portray a fight between a male protagonist and a female villain. No matter the context, a man doesn't look very heroic when punching a woman in the face.

Fictional characters behave in ways that cause the fights and murders that stop viewers getting bored. The author writes whatever version of human behaviour is needed to make things action-packed, irrespective of their own beliefs.

I think Miller's DKR is more balanced than a lot of you give it credit for.

I wanted to like the animated DKR, but it one of my least favourite tropes is when people fire lots of bullets at the heroes and they always miss, apparently just because the hero is really lucky.
In the animated DKR, this happens constantly.
(I also dislike the scene in DKR… I mean, in Dark Knight Rises, where the

Besides, it's nothing compared to what The Force Awakens did to John Williams.

So… What happened with the contract killer they caught, given that they were trying to fake Pimento's death? Did they let him go? Frame him for murder and hope he wouldn't tell anyone what really happened? Slit his throat and dump his body in the ocean?

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For Frank to have a point, we have to live in a vigilante-fantasy world where criminals aren't complex people, they're all absolute villains who do nothing but cruelly murder people and gloat about it afterwards. And somehow Frank always knows who the bad guys are and where they are and knows that there aren't any

I feel like you maybe ended that sentence prematurely?

I always liked the laser-sight on the shotgun in Quake 3. Why don't all shotguns have those?

I wonder if Matt actually kills dozens of people but he never notices due to the whole blindness thing? "Well, I dropped a fire extinguisher on him from a long way above, and I heard a crunching noise, but I'm sure he'll be fine. If he died, somebody would say something, right?"

They've been bringing back minor characters and filling in bits of backstory every season. It doesn't seem particularly significant to me.