Yeah, RIP, I certainly hope he doesn't get his fascist ass up and walk around again. I'm always worried about that with Reagan.

And all of them questionable and worthless.

They take the real-world use of innocent civilians as human shields

Frankenstein, the novel, dates a little and is more fun if you read while thinking about it in context of Shelley's life and background. Dracula is, in contrast, a less deliberate, strikingly contemporary-seeming book, a slasher novel of sorts. Dracula is by far the easier read for a reader of today, but I'm not sure…

Silent Hill 3 was the first game, I believe, where the town's transformation into its rust-streaked, black-skied counterpart occurs as a showy effect in front of the player's eyes.

Stephen King's horror is influenced heavily by his childhood experience of seasonal ghost towns in the northeastern U.S.—entire villages that filled and emptied month-by-month according to the vacation schedules of out-of-towners—and "Silent Hill" is influenced not just by King but by his imitators.

I thought she demonstrated a decent idea of how a girl might dress in 2003 at the age where she's trying to segregate her identity from her parents', which is after all what the game is about. More popping than put-together, more loud than sensibly outré. (Her outfit's a little teenage-Japanese, but why not?)

the real fascism of PCness

I'll give this to the South Park team, they are smashing furiously up against the fairly low intellectual ceiling of the show over and over this season.

This article gives the most recent "Runaways" mini short shrift, and that kind of pisses me off. By departing from the characters of the Alphona/Vaughan years, it hews closer to the theme and feel of the older volumes than anything to carry the name since.

So, to understand the ending of this horror novel, I should read a fantasy series. Got it.

What, with there not only being a space spider but a space turtle?

Too many of them, without enough contrast with the safe lives of the normal Joes to prove interesting.

If they made the alien a little less Disney-looking and Disney-acting, I'd have been into it. I see it as a good attempt marred by underestimating its audience's empathy.

The ending to the book is… even worse.

I hate the current popular Netflix-lite documentary style: uniform TV-show lighting, crappy "Real Stories of the Highway Patrol" reenactments, excited credulity toward nearly every interview subject. That movie would have been five times more interesting with just the subjects' descriptions of their experiences.

*sets fire to print* No it doesn't, what are you talking about

But I wasn't scared for Heather for the entire last act of the game. As soon as she discovers the most horrific thing about herself in the story, she transforms into a Resident Evil character and I half-expected her to find some grenades and a rocket launcher. Her reaction to events didn't fit the setting.

There's probably some people where that read on it helped them enjoy the game more.

The Simpsons.