Tangential but relevant: Joss Whedon was discussing with students at Oxford this same idea about the near impossibility of simply creating art and having people discover it after it’s been made. And to some extent he’s lamenting things, but at the same time it does highlight the difference you’re talking about. It’s…

I honestly don’t understand something in this article. The article takes the stance that the majority of players of these games are above the ages of 13-18 to make it’s point about the sexualization of minors. If you want to make that point ok.

While I can appreciate that viewpoint and I’ll just add the “agree to disagree disclaimer”, I don’t think setting it in a galaxy far, far, away makes convenient plot contrivance more believable. To me the difference is I watched Star Wars as a child (amongst people who already knew and told me it was classic so it was…

I think what got lost when ID4 came out, was it’s the same mythmaking present in things that do get celebrated like Star Wars. The tone’s not dissimilar. It’s somber and silly and boomy all at once. People win by an inexplicably stupid flaw of logic. It’s less good in terms of character arcs by a mile though.

It’s questionable how appropriate Lysinstrata is in general. Sort of the point of it’s existence is a farcical satire of Greece’s warlike culture at the time. So in a sense, it’s really only as appropriate as the audience thinks it is. If one were to transport back to the time, it would be highly questionable that…

This has to do with the wording of who said this. This is the position of the central bank which is analogous to the Federal reserve.

I’m not really getting this. By doing things like allowing the victim’s attorney to call a press conference declaring tampering has occurred and then not actually following suit when it’s found out that’s untrue the DA hangs the police, the lab, and the chain of custody out to dry. It doesn’t matter how good his case…

I’m well aware of the term. The problem with it is, it doesn’t really create a visceral reaction against the person doing the shaming. A lot of people think “public shaming” is a useful tool. So saying “I’m being publicly shamed” is about as useful for currying sympathy as you might expect.

I think it gets used because honestly there isn’t a culturally accepted phrase for what happens now. I’m not sure if you’d call it shamed or outraged, but having something that you’ve said brought out by an extremely vested group of people to make sure the story never goes away and drowns out whatever you’re doing is…

That’s just the Jezebel comentariat. I sort of expected it to dogpile in one direction or another but once the course was set... Honestly, I’d be curious if it’s a show that actually managed to pull off male characters I actually identify with. I haven’t watched sitcoms in years because they seem to be built off a…

Not sure how I feel about this. The whole perk “tree” thing tends to be pretty in vogue these days, but part of the fun of Fallout for me was always creating oddball characters and part of that was possible because although there were base requirements, you weren’t necessarily locked in to a tree that you had to keep…

Yea, he was bettered later in his career by better boxers. It took him 5 years to be beaten. Rousey’s career is 4 years old. I have no problem hating the man or putting his entire career in context. But we’re comparing him to someone whose career is a lot younger and someone who is for practical purposes one year…

Not sure what you mean. Crushing as in dominating? He absolutely was. He was 37 - 0 before he was upset largely after his personal life and personality wrecked him. In the ring though? Yea, like Rousey he also had a tendancy to demolish people in the first 30 seconds to a minute. He was just too overpowering for his…

I’ll just stop you there: yes.

The headline isn’t associating it in any way that academic study hasn’t. Both childhood trauma AND bipolar (and it gets worse with comorbid diagnoses) have positive corrolations when it comes to future violent behavior. Does that mean those diseases are an unavoidable sentance? No. Does that mean they should be…

Interesting. Because I had the same impression with the original but two things for me were true. One, people hadn’t figured out what we’d eventually come to realize was an incredibly fast control scheme from the original Doom (which made almost everything feel like an Arena) which got exploited and maximized in…

I’d say yes. A bad set that follows you home is worse than anything Seinfeld and his ilk dealt with in their day. Yea, dealing with someone angry at a club or a small local group swearing you off isn’t good... but it’s a whole lot better than a retweet fest resulting in a mischaractarization of what a comic’s set may…

I’m not sure if you’re being disingenuous or not. Yea, the rest of the movie (especially most of the characters that were women) had problems in terms of script and execution. But that is not what blew up a vast majority of pop culture. Perhaps it was the lazy bloggers of pop culture that pointing out those individual…

I’m not sure this is a perfect answer, but those men already have a death sentence on them and they have already seen Stannis and Melisandre roast people before. The show is pretty clear in setting up that the loss of supplies coupled with the loss of the ability of the army to move means they will be dying of…

No, it’s fair enough. Contra for better or worse like a lot of games from that generation were contingent on pattern recognition, reaction, and memory. Those thousands of projectiles like most games (especially in those years) had a pattern and if you knew it and reacted perfectly you won. Dark Souls, AGAIN contains…