At least the A Bug's Life premise isn't inherently annoying to me.

I just beat Uncharted 4 (my first game of the series) and goodness is this not true at all. My total kill count was 535 over 13 hours, and I assume that time includes all my dying. Indy personally kills what, 10-20 people at most in each movie?

Diablo was more distinctive back when it was Blizzard North (1 and 2). Diablo 3 is, I'd argue, the blandest thing Blizzard's made. Also I liked Starcraft a lot more when it was trying to be Aliens and Warhammer 40k rather than Star Wars.

Not only hideous cockroach aliens but largely stupid and listless ones as well. I think the Blomkamp supported explanation (and really the only one that makes sense) is that they're a hive race and this ship lost its leaders somehow. Christopher is one of the smarter types but most of them are dumb workers/soldiers…

The "power not sex" adage has outlived its usefulness, hasn't it? It's counterproductive to the aim of dismantling rape culture to say that only predatory rapists are rapists. There's also opportunistic rape: the guy at the frat party who would prefer consensual sex but if she's too drunk to say no that's the next…

I get that they're both doing the space western thing but Cowboy Bebop and Firefly have such different tones and different strengths that this dismissal always kind of seems like "well I might've liked The Good the Bad and the Ugly more if I hadn't seen Shane already".

I love Mary Jo as a performer and Pearl could be a fun character, but she was basically the only good thing about those last three seasons.

Cronenberg's M. Butterfly is a tediously dull polemic with minimal respect for its audience, expecting you to be as wowed by basic challenges to Orientalism and gender norms as its straw-idiot protagonist. I'm glad I saw it though, because the way it completely dismisses Puccini as a librettist felt like a challenge…

On the other hand, they keep the action sections from becoming too fatiguing and repetitive. The games would be worse without them.

I think the main issue is how realistic looking the environments are in a few of those shots. It really clashes.

It absolutely is fun to shit on people - when they deserve it. You for example, for defending this:

There's an evolution of the noble savage stereotype that reduces the whole group to their victimhood. Or rather, an outsider's perception of it. Of course it's necessary to acknowledge injustice, but not in a way that downplays agency and resistance.

>which is the saddest thing to praise anything for

Possibly a slight exaggeration.

Why do you think it helps your position to act like you don't understand straightforward ideas? It's like the petulant class clown approach to arguing.

I agree with your point and all, but "that woman of color" sounds really gross.

The word "offended" has become a sort of bugbear to childish assholes on the internet, but whether you want to call it that or not you are so clearly offended by the idea that anyone should ever change their behavior on account of other people. Otherwise there would be no reason to object so strongly to a petition of…

With JRPGs it's sort of an unwritten rule that you keep multiple save files for this reason, but I can't think of any old platformers where this was a problem so it's hard for me to call it a throwback. It's just bad design.

Still Alice is devastating, and 90% of the reason why is Moore's performance. I genuinely can't think of a more deserving best actor win from either gender.

I just watched it and it's really not for laughs. Like at all.