That guy was an ass. Britain refers to the entire UK, which Scotland is a part of. He is not English, but he is British whether he likes it or not.

To many Americans, learning about other countries seems kind of pointless. An astonishing number of Americans doesn’t even have a passport!

You mean they don’t? And by the way, the Hitchhiker’s Guide says you used the most foul word in the known universe. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Someone put you on a direct line to Cameron right now because that is a story I would pay to see!

It’s their fucking planet. They don’t need or want it “developed” and they have all they need without human technology. They are perfectly adapted to the environment and see no need to change it. It doesn’t matter how nicely we asked for their shit, they are under no obligation to give it to us. They don’t have to…

That criticism is deeply flawed. The problem with “white savior” stories is that they portray white people as superior and natives as helpless without them. Avatar is in fact a subversion of this trope.

I know he’s considered a joke by many, but if you give his stuff an honest listen he’s extremely skilled with his instrument. The speed and complexity with which he plays is extroardinary, virtuoso in fact, and he’s rather the equivalent of a guitar shredder in terms of technical skill. No, I don’t have any of his…

I like Mr Elba and I thought casting a Norse god with a black man was dumb on the very face of it. The Vikings whose mythology that is had probably never even seen a black person in their lives and certainly wouldn’t have imagined one of their dieties looking like one.

Personally, I would have cast Mr Elba as one of…

It was actually a pretty damned good movie and better than any other Robocop material save for the sacred awesomeness that was the original. This film wasn’t trying to be that one because the director was smart enough to realize the original could not be topped. So he went in a different direction and made a very…

And using him robbed David Prowse of the unmasked Vader scene he was promised. Fuck Shaw, the real Vader was ALWAYS David Prowse and he deserved his unmasked moment.

In the novelization they do not have sex, she performs a mind meld technique that is done traditionally on Vulcan for males who have hit puberty / their first Pon Farr but are too young to mate. Kinda like a psychic handjob so to speak, it tides them over until they’re old enough for proper mating. It makes sense,…

And I suppose you prejudge me based on my race, and that you think I’m unaware that prejudice and bigotry are still serious problems and that I’m blind to what goes on in this country and around the world? That is not the case. And yet to claim that things are as bad as they were 25 years ago let alone 100 is simply…

I believe society has evolved greatly in that time, yes. Many things we now consider to be horrific evils were not merely tolerated but in fact promoted as social good. Many bigotries that were then considered a virtue are now roundly and properly condemned. And this is especially true in the realm of the sciences, as…

I was unaware some reported the crime and got no help from authorities. That is... I have no words for how fucked up that is on every level. Whoever committed such gross dereliction of duty belongs on trial themselves. It’s the job of law enforcement to investigate reports of crimes, period. Those who refuse to do so…

I really don’t think anybody had high any hopes for Genesys though.

No. The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is an absolutely VITAL principle of human justice and there are no exceptions. Without it, we get the likes of the Salem Witch Trials, the false child molestation accusation scandals of the 1980s, and the similarly never proven but incredibly destructive hysteria…

And? One would imagine that someone who has suffered through that hell would be even more motivated to take down the monster that preyed on them. If not to prevent others from going through that same traumatic ordeal, then to get revenge on the scumsucking sack of wasted flesh.

Fortunately, I read (as most have) that…

If any of you have written or created characters and stories, and put them out there, you might understand where he’s coming from. I have, and I do. I couldn’t have done what he did and I don’t know if I could bear the hatred he’s been given.

But go ahead, write something and publish it online. See if you don’t feel an…

I’m so often tempted to wish I could “warm up the furnaces” for all the terminally stupid morons on this planet. If I were ever to go full supervillain that would be my big evil, but of course the universe isn’t going to drop a fuckton of cosmic power in my lap so it’s not a real issue. What I’m more interested in,…