While I can definitely appreciate the media pointing out Giger’s influence, I can’t help feeling I agree with the developer that people are overdoing it. It’s like if someone does a game with multicolored squares and everyone suddenly calls it Mondrain and mentions it excessively. It’s, after a fashion, reductive to…

Hah. That reminds me of people talking about Rent A Girlfriend last season. That show was buried before episode 1 due to fan sentiment about the manga arcs and it’s score by the end of the season on MAL was mildly hilarious vs. what was actually on the screen.  Mind you, Rent A Girlfriend at its best is a specific…

There’s a lot of theories, but I think it’s probably more simple than many claim. Overwatch at its core was a 1st person reskin of a different genre (MOBA) which is highly competitive, almost toxically so and hugely predicated both on mechanical skills but also metas. This by way of a more Team Fortress 2 style of…

Heh - don’t worry. This is my pet theory and I rarely get much traction on it.

I never said it was. I said losing ones shit over accents is a protectionist behavior that works that way (if you choose to say the ubiquity of US movies and music imperialism, sure thing). I don’t think Brits do it on purpose, but I think there’s a reason Jordan Peele’s Black Actor sketch was made and ironically his…

It’s a no win situation. The real answer is real, life altering consequences for abuse of the system.

I really wish more people would read responses like yours. I understand the anger in the ACAB responses, but the Police do have a duty (at least at the beginning of this story) to take threats seriously. Where everyone is valid is in their anger at the end of it.

I’d keep in mind, having a problem with pronunciation is how UK actors have found massive employment gains. As screwball as it sounds, the British fans will tantrum about bad American versions of British accents which tends to result in UK actors mostly filling those roles now (because it’s easier for them to find and…

I generally stay away from Manga (not a judgement, but like with Comics/Books and Films I find constantly knowing the source screws with my enjoyment so I do read, just other stuff) but it is interesting to me how consistent Shonen Jump has been in finding concepts that really, really work.

I think ultimately io9 has always had this specific problem as it comes to the intersection of queer identities and the greater genre/geek culture diaspora. io9 generally writes for the general audience often enough that it can seem inviting to a larger group than just the LGBTQ nerd. I don’t know, but I don’t think…

You’re hitting on why many people take specific complaints about the system with a grain of salt.

I hope Shitani-san gets the call for another season. You can tell how the Anime industry tends to spit out it’s old VA’s so if they’re doing this it would be nice to see that the original VA is treated fairly.  Especially when the voice is so intentionally irritating and I’ll be honest I sort of have a pet peeve of…

I’d like to see the legal complications that ensue. Given what the WWE forced other wrestlers to do in terms of Social Media and Youtube, are we going to see some lawsuit about his channel later? Are other wrestlers going to sue because those WWE stipulations weren’t in their original contract but then after the WWE…

I have this question too, especially when I see that or latinx specifically applied to people who would not use that identifier if you asked them.

Never watched it. Low brow reality has never been my thing (for those it is, love what you love.)

Liberal/Leftists believing that conservatives can’t work past cognitive dissonance is the problem and that theoretical leftist thought is sufficient for policy making is the problem.. The right has the Supreme Court and they will reshape America while they have that opportunity. Joe Rogan or the Barstool Sports guy…

Because wtf are we supposed to think at this point? Those of us who were in it every election and knew the stakes, all we can get out of this is “I told you so.” That’s not what any of us wanted.

The problem is going to be trying to enforce the idea of the Supremacy clause when even liberal groups have been making copious use of bypassing it through things like Medical Marijuana. When I was grewing up, I knew the Supremacy clause was a friend. That didn’t stop my generation from basically dismantling it…

In 3D, you can’t both be moving extremely fast AND have good control. In order to do that, you’re probably creating something with Dark Souls level of difficulty.  Like yes, it’s snappy and responsive but you have to do it perfectly and even then, you’ll get it wrong most of the time.

Although I basically said upthread that a 3d Sonic game doesn’t work.