I’m quite the Melissa McCarthy fan, I hope this movie proves the haters wrong. I myself really can’t say I know enough to judge whether it will be good or not, but here’s hoping.

THANK YOU! I still love this game, and have been playing or running some variant of it since it was new. It remains the single best pencil-and-paper RPG system I’ve ever used, and I’ve never encountered another that combines it’s simplicity to play and run, ease of learning, and level of “close enough” accuracy to…

Bartender here. Blue Moon is NOT the same beer in a fancier package, it’s a Belgian style white wheat finished with citrus and light hops, a completely different flavor profile. It isn’t made the same or with the same ingredients, and it doesn’t look or taste the same either. Coors actually makes some decent brews…

Depends on the pagan, really. Usually only Wiccans use the term “witch” for themselves, and it’s kind of a matter of debate. Some feel it’s the duty of us all to reclaim the word and wear it with pride, others say it’s a slur too tainted to ever be redeemed and should be buried. But for those who use it, it’s usually…

*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,…

Oh come on you can’t tell me I’m the only one who notices what that looks like, huh?

As a Wiccan / pagan myself, wow I’m offended at these charlatans looking to sell rituals. It doesn’t work that way! Magick is nothing more than ritualized prayer, and can you imagine the outrage a god would have at people selling prayers to him / her / it? I wouldn’t want that bad karma, and it wouldn’t even work.…

The -k spelling is to distinguish Wiccan / pagan rituals from mundane types of things that are called “magic” such as stage illusion and claims of sorcery and such.

To be clear, no sane Wiccan/pagan claims to be a real life spellcaster out of something like D&D or Lord of the Rings. We can’t toss fireballs, turn people…

You win the thread.

There was no Alien 3. That was just a collective nightmare, along with Highlander 2.

Newt had some of the best lines in the film, and it makes sense that she could survive when the adults didn’t because she was tiny as all fuck and could hide in shafts and crawlways too small for even the Aliens to squirm though. She survived for the same reason rats do, because small and able to hide / navigate in…

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…

And yet they won’t shut down fracking or limit the Nestle corporation sucking it dry for bottled water. Gee, I wonder why they chose to go after these guys instead of the big corporations, could it be money?

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...