What systemic inequity do you refer to? What exploitation exists of imaginary elf girls rendered in line drawings and computer graphics? Have you forgotten what the word Fantasy in Final Fantasy means?

I think it's Olympus Mons on Mars, but I could be wrong.

You fall into the trap here of assigning western Puritan cultural mores to a different society and culture who does not hold or necessarily agree with those mores.

Or maybe you could just get over your prudery? Or your apprehension of being judged for what media you enjoy? Maybe leave a Playboy or two on the coffee table and learn to say "yeah, I like it, deal". Or, if you really don't like it, find something more bowdlerized to your standards.

It's a serious industry over here, too, but western Puritanism makes the line a lot brighter between "porn" and "legitimate media". But even over here, "porn parodies" are popular, and the internet / fanworks are all over anything that's highly popular especially genre work. If Marvel ever started doing X-Men and…

This entire thread is made of win.

This is brilliant!

There isn't a "reply to thread" button sadly, and you posted a reply on the side of the opposition and so I just tacked my post to yours. It was aimed at all the self-righteous milifem crusaders who choose to aggressively demonize male-demographic entertainments while throwing around words like "sexism",…

You know, reading shit like this makes me wish you hateful bitches would just kill us all already. You know you want to.

One, the small size of the unit was deliberate as most action in Vietnam was on the squad level and Cameron was deliberately trying to invoke a Vietnam feel. The film showed us a technologically superior and arrogant (and obviously American) group going in against a virtually unarmed enemy with superior numbers and…

I'm sorry, you're wrong. The film certainly does hold up today and remains influential. I get that you prefer one over the other, but it's wrong to say there's any form of consensus in that direction. As I said, it's generally held that the two are both extremely good and also very different films, and both excel at…

Xenomorph isn't a name, it's a term Lt Gorman uses like once in the second film and that's it. The word "xenomorph" means "other shape", it's just a term for an alien creature. The creatures never had a name for their species.

"Aliens, a film that most would agree is not nearly as good as the first"

I put "women" in quotes because I am aware not all women are that way, nor can a negative stereotype (even one reinforced through bitter experience, as with mine) truly capture the diversity of real human beings nor does any of it necessarily apply to any particular woman. Also, I am aware that much of the signals and…

"Previously completely seaworthy ships do tend to have an uncanny ability to unexpectedly sing en route to the scrap yard"

I was specifically responding to the posted comic in this thread, which is very harsh and judgemental to say the least.

This one, the SDF-1 Macross, could take them all. In fact, if you formed them into a tight enough formation, it could one-shot them all AT ONCE.

All the way to heaven.

There were other reasons?

Yep, that's Splinter of the Mind's Eye. And there's nothing creepy about it, it's a completely alternate story written before Empire was conceived. Vader was NOT Luke's father in that story, and neither was Leia his sister. Those plot twists would not be thought of until much later. Han Solo doesn't figure into it at…