I gets weird and kind of insulting when they act like Japanese living in Japan are oppressed minorities of some kind, and not just another modern country.

You don't have to ask twice. Pending staff approval.

This is just like that dystopian novel that you got your username from!!!

Stone is the kind of leftist who feels Stalin is misunderstood. It's entirely unsurprising he would rally around someone trying to take the Russia back to the good old days.

I appreciate you passing it along in any case.

"Fangoriously" is a marvelous word, and is now going into my vocabulary.

The relevant game quote is that "Nobody minds a railroad if it moves quickly, the scenery is good, and it goes somewhere interesting."

I do not demand total agreement in order to an accept an upvote. In any case, I know my opinion on T2 is an outlier, so I'm not trying too hard to persuade anyone on that. Just stating my own feelings on the matter.

I agree. It's a good movie and all, but it felt less real than The Road Warrior. Aside from the stunts and effects, the constant alteration of background color gave it the feel of a CGI background even that it was shot at real locations.

Just to add, I think alignment languages made more sense in early editions where there were only Law, Neutrality and Chaos as options. People default to Neutrality, and having an alignment of Law or Chaos is a kind of supernatural pact with higher forces.

That's why you should never hate anything as a rule. Fridging had been overused as lazy storytelling, which created a backlash. One the other hand, there are sometimes it actually is the right way for a story to go.

"outmoded and passé" = "Why do these albums sound like they were recorded 50 years ago?"

Something D&D has always struggled with is finding something to with all the gold you collect. Obviously, early D&D had you earning XP for gold, but once later editions took that away, there wasn't a lot to spend it on.

I think it comes down to the fact that The Terminator never should have had any sequels. It is a perfectly self-contained movie, and it ends with you knowing everything that is going to happen in its perfect time loop. We weren't meant to see any more of the story, as it was all in our heads already. It's like if…

I never understand why so many modern effects aspire to make the action feel weightless and inconsequential. I've only seen the trailer, but that bus looks like if it landed on top of you at the end of the flip, it would just bounce off like a balloon.

He certainly examines what he is borrowing. One of the plot points you could say is influenced by Lady Snowblood is that one of the revenge targets has a daugher. That idea plays out differently in both movies.

Lady Snowblood is a clear influence on Kill Bill, but I wouldn't say Kill Bill rips it off. There a couple of clear references to Lady Snowblood, but they are very different movies. I feel it does a disservice to both movies to suggest it.

I saw that in the theater around that time (with subtitles) and it really was amazing and new to me at the time.

It was also the #2 movie in Japan that year. If you are going to get offended on behalf of another country, it is good form to check if they were even offended in the first place.

I'm not entering my personal opinion into the matter. I am just going with the level of esteem they seem to have had among critics over the years.