John, you're kind of missing the point:

@nicpopetone: Yeah, but it's not a terribly interactive story, which is kind of problematic since that's what RPGs and (to a lesser extent) all games are about. Interactivity.

The Problem
with looking at ANY video game's story is that when it comes to plot, narrative, etc… they invariably suck. Even games with "Good" stories like Mass Effect are, frankly terrible.

IIRC The big difference is that New Crit does not invalidate the notion of a primary or authoritative reading, whereas Barthes says that there is no such thing as an authoritative reading. Just more or less useful ones.

This book
is the perfect book to use to teach the concept of the Death of the Author. The wide gulfs that exist between Bradbury's stated 'meaning', the meanings drilled out of it by critics, and what the average reader gets out of the book are surprisingly wide, if shallow.

Huh. How'd that happen?

I don't know, some of the other designers have mentioned

Michael C
It Peach is telling the truth, it's pretty obvious why Michael C hasn't threatened to leave yet: He doesn't actually care abut the competition, he wants to build a character and do reality TV professionally.

It really says something about their respective views of motherhood. For Peggy, moms are stifling and confining, just like her mother. Don, on the other hand, seems to have a more idealized view of motherhood, like he's hungering for a mother figure to fill the gap left when his mother died in childbirth.

Pete did, I think.

It isn't. It's actually referred to as Augmented Reality several times.

I don't think he thinks that there is no super-ultra-mega weirdness in the future. When he first gave up SF, he referred his fans to a quote from the Sprawl about how there is no longer a future, just more and more now, forever.

I know it's goony as fuck
But if we're talking any medium, the death that's most memorable for me is the protagonist's in Persona 3. The way he dies on the roof of the school, surrounded by his friends, having survived just long enough to keep his promise really got to me in a way videogames usually don't.

Pretty sure it's the opposite. The backwards-in-time thing was a means of feeding for Angels that were severely weakened. The thing is, the angels that ARE weakened in this ep are eating constantly from the radiation leaking from the ship, and the one doing the neck snapping is so gorged from the same that there's no…

See,
I LIKED the audience jeering at Daredevil because it's the kind of thing that this show does far too rarely. It's a joke that actually has something, anything to do with geeky shit that goes beyond playing joke mad-libs with easily accessible references. It actually engages with the nerdy subject in question,…

I stand corrected then, but FWIW I'm still pretty sure that this episode was the one that was bumped for Pompeii even if i got the details wrong.

Sorry if this has been mentioned
But it's my understanding that this was originally meant to show up as a two-parter in series four that got shelved due to Stephen Fry's abortive episode and which was ultimately replaced with the Fires of Pompeii. It wasn't even originally a Dalek episode, so I think a lot of its…

I never understood
the whole "shut up and sing" mentality. The idea that an artist or musician or actor or whatever shouldn't advocate loudly for their political views is just absurd to me. If you believe in something, like really truly genuinely believe in it, and you have a platform that allows you to reach a lot of…

I think I make it pretty clear what I mean about engaging with the subject matter, viz, that instead of the jokes being ABOUT math or science or geeky pop culture references, they just use math or science or geeky pop culture references to fill out what amounts to a template.

Haha. I'm an idiot because I think humour that consists of jokeless reference isn't funny? Which sacred cow are you angry at me for going after?