I think the book version of The Two Towers is the most egregious. First half: ooh exciting battles and adventures with Aragorn and a returned Gandalf! Second half: oh my god, I wish Frodo and Sam would just die already how long have I been reading this.

The movies aren’t masterpieces, but good god are the books ever an endless dull slog.

OK, but that doesn’t really do much to address my point, which is simply that I would love to elect good, pure people and have them enact good policy, but if I have to elect people who aren’t so pure to get that good policy, ultimately, that’s fine with me too. 

You’re missing my point.

Fuck that noise. This is war. Ray Moore will likely be elected and the Repugs will just do a little dance acting “outraged” .... And then welcome him as they and groper in chief continue to pack the appellate courts with wet behind the ears candidates who’ve never adjudicated a single case but will live another fifty…

Liberals are caught between rightfully not letting people get away with awful behavior and never forgiving anyone for screwing up ever.

If Democrats are getting the same rules as Republicans, wouldn’t he be elected President? Or is there a minimum number of woman and minors that need to be assaulted first? Is Trump’s 16 the minimum? Does admitting on video to sexual assault act as a “get out of jail free and into the Oval Office” card?

And yes, he…

If no other accusations against him come out, I think he should keep his senate seat. He made a really stupid mistake and that picture is disturbing but I believe he is sincere in his response and this incident shouldn’t undermine or overshadow his career.

More things to do doesn’t necessarily mean more things you want to do, and Assassin’s Creed has always had a bunch of side content that just isn’t fun.

I don’t really deny anything you’re saying. I’m just observing and lamenting such a sad state of affairs. I also think that simply writing-off states like Alabama in perpetuity is not the way to go, but I admit I don’t have the answer.

I’m not going to deny regional animosity is a thing in the US, since that is demonstrably false. I will go ahead and point out that a not insignificant number of Alabama residents are ready to elect an actual monster to the US Senate. I will also point out that this is not the first time this has happened in that…

I know, and I admit I’m partly playing Devil’s Advocate, not I must emphasise to give any remote defence or justification to the apparently 84% (?!?) of Alabamans leaning towards supporting a child-abusing rapist homophobic racist POS, and certainly not to troll, but in order to offer an unfashionable, but…

So that would make Popeye a Templar?

Calm down there, hoss. Nobody hates people just for living in Alabama. That’s what the 48 hours are for in my completely serious suggestion about a totally real thing we might do.

But if they’re sending pedophiles to Congress — hell, if it’s even close — and you’re not willing to accept the idea that the political…

Hating your fellow countrymen is not even remotely close to being solely an American phenomenon.

You’re missing my point. Populations of people are being demonised and dehumanized based entirely on the states they live within. That applies across the board by the way (including the way the inhabitants of former Confederate states speak of coastal/blue state inhabitants).

Hey now, the original Rambo was ALL about the horrible toll of violence!

Weirdly though... doesn’t that make John Wick a little worse? Mainly because it portrays how some gun owners imagine what a gunfight looks like. It’s like the modern version of Rambo — murder with no consequences.

Mel Gibson is a racist homophobe and an abuser. He does not deserve a second chance. He does not deserve forgiveness. [snip] I can’t even believe this has to be said.

When writing critically, I’m less concerned with intent than with what a work communicates. Whatever MachineGames intentions were are secondary to what the game actually says in and of itself.