Of course "Nazi midget" is arguably ripped off from the 1975 George Segal comedy, The Black Bird. I guess making him Mexican is intended to make him more topical — taking the job nobody else wants?

a darkly romantic suggestion of the goth Golconda the soundtrack could have been

I'm pretty sure a cut-down version of this was run as a TV ad that I saw at the time, which seems weird in retrospect, given the lack of finished visual effects and music. Was the completion of those really that down-to-the-wire, or was Fox apprehensive enough about the whole thing to not want to piss away more money…

Having read one of those earliest drafts, I'd have to say, "Yes."

How long before Frasier was she supposed to have died?

In terms of absurdity, this is like the mirror image of people watching Duck Dynasty and being shocked by the racism and homophobia.

I get the face-slapping as a means of building up rage adrenaline, but I don't really get the motor oil drinking part. Do you arm wrestle harder when you're desperate to get to the bathroom?

Robocop had significant organic components. At the very least most of Murphy's head and brain. Whatever power system is running most of his body, those meaty bits still need nourishment — proteins and sugars and enzymes — rather than just electricity, and the "digestion organ pot" is an efficient way of doing that.…

Racism.

That's not horror?

at three times Earth’s mass, it would have three times the gravity, which would complicate any exploration efforts.

They're basically poisonous mini land lobsters.

I saw this, at a time when I was intensely shy with women, on a date. That I still couldn't manage to communicate my interest in her, even with the film as a great big exhibit of my paralysis and fate if I couldn't somehow come to terms with it, still makes me smirk at my own foolishness.

Well, hell, his latest album title indicates a certain sense of humor about himself.

More literate. I was just going for the low-hanging fruit… or prey…

Eat Pred Love

And probably to the standards of living spaces 75 years ago. Still, I'm sure some developer would be willing to rent them at a merely exorbitant rate from the library, with the intent of fixing them up and subletting at an obscene rate. Still a win for the public library.

It might be one of the goals of putting romances into games, but "realism" as a goal always has to be balanced with "playability" and "fun" (and I say that as a big fan of "realism").

Indeed. The librarians should consider whether they'd really be better off making use of them as "program space", or renting them out at obscene Midtown rates to subsidize their operations and programs.

I don't really buy the conceit that the "cake—and the effort it represents—is exactly what *Hyun-ae needs from her partner". The real cake isn't something she's capable of actually enjoying, either as an AI or as a character within the game. Her request feels less like something she "needs" than it does like an…