The whole "take your digimon to a toilet so he can poop" mechanic kinda worked when your digimon was a little rookie level, who you could believe was largely unintelligent.

My favorite memory of that game (one of the few positive ones) is when I was walking by one of the Qunari Hunk-Guards, think to myself "daaaamn", only to have Merrill and Isabelle comment with the basic equivalent of "daaaamn."

My first console an NES as well, so most of my games came from bargain bins in antique stores. I had Back to the Future, I had The Legend of Kage, I had Castlequest, I had Astyanax.

I was raised by my grandparents, so many of the games I had growing up as a kid were purchased by people who really, truly had no idea what they were buying. So I had some terrible games that I loved the shit out of.

Shit, I forgot about affair-secretary. So four. The MCU has featured four. And of those four . . . yeah, I don't know if I like Joey's odds.

Me too. But this has a Whedon attached to it, so I will never, ever trust.

Anyone want to create a betting pool on how long it will be before Joey gets killed off? I've got money on the third-to-last episode of the season.

Go act in some real movies, Gerard. Between Gods of Egypt and this hot mess, you're in danger of making people nostalgic for that movie where you're dead the whole time.

That all reads like Detective Lance being the one to bite it to me, to be honest.

Well, that new book Lost Stars (which, at least for now, is actually part of the new canon) addresses this point, sort of. Within it (told from the viewpoint of a young officer within the empire) - most of the people working on the death star were only dimly aware of what it was actually capable of - thinking of it as…

I think "should" is different than "can". And I don't think there is anything wrong with celebrating diverse portrayals of gay men - as the notion that there is way to "act straight" or "act gay" is kinda offensive to me.

Buffy?

I partly agree with this. It's not that I don't like the super-butch, macho gay guys that are badasses - but they're not the -only- thing we should get. That's why I like characters like, say, Wiccan or Northstar - characters who we can infer are at least somewhat effeminate (Northstar was, at one point, a literal…

Pearl is pretty clearly a lesbian as well, and she doesn't fit any stereotypes that I can think of. At least, not pertaining to her homosexuality.

Depends on which stereotype we're going for, right? The "effeminate, nebbish gay guy" stereotype was basically the gold standard "gay character" for so much of hollywood history that it's easy to point out where things differ from it.

I honestly think the episode of Mission Hill with Gus and Wally's backstory - with Wally's failed film career and hilarious Ed Wood-level trainwreck of a movie - might be my favorite episode of television ever. Something about Wally's complete acceptance of his decision to throw everything away for the man he cares…

Badass gay characters are my favorite! Anyone got any more good examples, besides what is on the list? I can think of Midnighter, Apollo, Ultimate Colossus, and Hulkling as gay bruisers from comics, but I'm sure there are some in other parts of geek media that I haven't heard of.

Welp, thanks for the boner, jerk. What am I even supposed to do with this!?

It's pretty flimsy evidence, but I would still absolutely love to see that happen.

I think he pretty directly implied that he had to be: