*deep breath* I’m about to step into a minefield here, and knowing that I have to start this with the statement of “I’m not racist, but...” is an indication of the heat of the water I’m about to wade into. But I need to say it.

The history of the Civil War (and slavery itself) is much more complex than the simplistic,…

Maybe it’s just me, but I expected Roger Moore to be much worse and was quite surprised. I remember him being the campy silly one, almost like a British Dudley Moore, but he’s actually cool as a frozen cucumber here. The way he never breaks the deadpan facial expression or raises his voice at all, that’s pretty damned…

See, for me VIII is where Square jumped the shark and stopped telling stories with good characters and began making shallow fluff that was all focused on the pretty pretty graphics and cutscenes. It was like they listened to all the praise for VII’s visuals and decided they were making playable movies and not games.…

Oh you haven’t said anything about Tifa I don’t agree with 1000%, Tifa is awesome and my absolute favorite but Aeris (no th, dammit lol) is also amazing and beautiful in her own way and so is Yuffie. Don’t you see? The game gave us not one but three great female characters who were very unique from one another in…

PS: I really, really don’t think you want VI remade. Rereleased, sure, tweaked a little bit maybe, but good GODS no please don’t remake it! Why would you even do that? The game was done in 2D pixel art sprites, you can’t improve on that with modern hardware. 16 bit is all you need for a good pixel art game, PS1…

Or maybe it really is that good and you just can’t see it because you’re hung up on FF6. Seven was a huge departure, yes I understand that, and for many fans it was just too different. The changeover to 3d polygon graphics (crude as they were) was very highly praised but it was also pretty jarring compared to…

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room... Aeris dying.

NOBODY anywhere, whether they have ever played the game or not, doesn’t know she dies. It’s the most commonly known twist right behind Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father. So how do you handle remaking a game built around a then-shocking mid-game twist? Do…

Did you really just slag on FF& and Chrono Trigger in the same post? You... you can’t be human. Only a monster, a true demon, could say such blasphemous sacrilege and not immediately burst into flames. Back, foul beast! Back into the pit from whence thee came!

Chrono and FF7? The two very best JRPGs ever made...

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I love Tifa as much as anyone, but Aeris is amazing too andeven Yuffie is pretty damned awesome. I only wish we had gotten the choice to let Clod sacrifice himself to save Aeris so we could have had the Holy Trinty as our party.

It’s not about race, it’s about change. Understand? We as nerds want the characters and stories that we loved on the page translated faithfully onto the screen. That’s it.

That means if the actor cast doesn’t look like the following, he’s wrong to play Johnny Storm:

You know what I see when I see “coupe crossovers”? This:

Yes, people are free to be as obnoxious and wasteful as they want, and I am free to criticize the phenomenon and cheer for positive change. I’m not going around vandalizing pickups and SUVs or harassing people in the street, I’m sharing my opinion on a discussion board. Understand that? Good. Moving on.

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That’s a damned shame, I suppose the drop in gas prices gave the square SUV a bit of CPR. That’s too bad, I’ve seen a good few of the Crosstours around here and like that they were earning space in this suburban environment where people have bought way more vehicle than they need or ever use for over two decades now.

Yo…

Are you telling me that you can’t carry a couple of kids around in a midsized sedan? My parents did when I was growing up and there were three of us. We managed just fine. These coupe-like crossovers are no smaller than a Camry or Accord, and that is more than enough car for the average family. Up until the SUV craze,…

That hasn’t been my experience. Sure, some go to a midsized crossover, but some indeed do go smaller still and it’s good thing when they do. Now I don’t know about the BMW or Mercedes vehicles quite so much as they’re a different market entirely due to price range, but most people I see in Crosstours and the like are…

Have I ever tried it? Yep. I’m a coonass and proud of it.

No, not usually. Most people I’ve ever seen in SUVS (I live in a suburban / small town) barely use the extra space if they ever do and absolutely never use the off-road capabilities at all. At most they’re used like minivans, though a good hatchback sedan or wagon would be more than enough for just two kids and some…