Yeah, like Canada should have some coherent policy regarding ISIS, but it’s also not like anyone else does. The U.S. government is basically playing diplomat to the Gulf states while Pentagon-backed militias fight CIA-backed militias... and Russia is sorta helping Assad but not too much, and Europe is just trying to…

Grimes said the same thing in a previous interview; that she wanted to be self-sufficient so she could avoid harassment from male producers.

While in principle I love student protests... I guess I’d be more thrilled if they proposed a more interesting alternative. I mean Columbia has one of the most prestigious MFA programs in the world, it’d be nice to see a more ambitious conclusion than “it’s ugly, take it away.”

I think it’s really tough... because on one hand she’s so important for being a woman and a minority in a field dominated by white men; her struggles must have been phenomenal, and she in a league now where all the “star-chitects” are doing these jobs with really questionable moral conditions surrounding the labour.…

Except the MGS games are all set in war-zones, where they have hilarious long dialogues about weapons and tactics, created elaborate camouflage and cover systems, and obsess over military culture. With the notable exception of Meryl (who still gets camera close-ups of her chest and butt), every other major female…

I mean it’s hard to recommend it to people who are outside the cultural community of video games, because it includes weird elements of softcore porn that are purely for fan-service purposes.

Russia has long and ongoing conflicts with groups in the Caucasus, and Chechen extremists have been linked to ISIS. The 2002 Moscow theater incident and 2004 Beslan school siege would be some of the more famous examples of terrorism in contemporary Russia, but there are smaller bombings, attacks, and kidnappings.…

Unpopular opinion, but I liked Sutherland. Hayter always just had a cheesy raspy Batman voice. Hayter sounds like a videogame voice-over, while Sutherland sounded more like an actor.

“Do you know who I am!?” :/

She might take a really friendly position towards it, and it’s totally her prerogative... but she is an employee, probably aspires to work with Konami further or just more as a model in general, and it doesn’t negate the overall treatment of women int he MGS universe.

I mean maybe as a parallel, you might look at…

For all the painstaking realism that the game tries to inject... you then get a whole bunch of female characters who have weirdly revealing outfits, and no backstory beyond something mysterious and vaguely magical. The MGS solid series is such an important franchise in the history of video games, but its treatment of…

Yeah, Kojima’s response to that was such bullshit... real blight on an game that really aspired to be an art piece. :/

Finally we’ll get to build a Game-of-Thrones style ice-wall that we’ve all been fantasizing about since we were children. I dunno even think it’s to keep you guys out... more just we Canadians like building things with snow.

Should have brought their birth certificate swipe card. Yup.

I know what you’re getting at, but “civilized” is probably offensive to alot of people. No one’s disputing that inequality is vastly more rampant in developing countries (gosh, look at South America, or South-East Asia), but still... it’s phrasing that’s not really fair to people from those countries.

Anyways the US…

This is on point; it’s all about options/support/expectations. Yes, there are people like Bill Clinton who rise from a trailer park on merit alone, but for the average person, having parents who demand a college education, and contribute to paying for it is more likely to help someone land comfortably in at least a…

I the socio-economic implications of your parents’ career are the elephant in the room.

I think the shifts are coming, and have been coming. When I was in college during the mid 2000's, one of our frosh week chants, done by the whole student body during sports games was basically a rape joke. The second year I was in school, student association banned that chant for being offensive, and people grumbled.…

As much as it got made of fun, the idea they proposed: that people would emulate conservative middle-class aesthetics but contradict that by using expensive materials/cuts/other signifiers that this was deliberate, is pretty neat. It does address the conservatism and escape to irony that is characteristic of…

“Is this the marina?”
“No sorry ma’am you’ve got the wrong number.”
“Sorry! Thanks!”
*click*

“Is this the marina?”
“Sorry ma’am, still the wrong number.”
“... ... are you sure you’re not the marina?”

I think the marina number was one digit off.