Do you really, honestly think if anyone had claimed Jason or Freddy inspired a crime spree that they’d stop making the movies? Hell no. The movies would probably use that as free publicity! You couldn’t ask for better marketing.

What was insane is luring an innocent friend into the woods where they stabbed her 19 times and left her for dead. Insane is for that young girl to have to drag herself bleeding and near-death to the street to flag down help, where she collapsed in a ditch from blood loss and would have died if not for a passing…

“Khan, a grizzled, dystopian adult version of Ms. Marvel”

You say stuck in the 80s like it’s a bad thing.

There’s plenty of story fodder in the future war of the Terminator, it just hasn’t been done right since the original betyond a brief flashback in the beginning of T2. If I had the Terminator license I’d make a gritty, brutal future war series based on the Vietnam show format a la Tour of Duty. Focus on a random…

“But while Alien may have originally been conceived as Scott’s reaction to Star Wars...”

It wasn’t. Ridley Scott had nothing to do with the conception of ALIEN, the story was originally created by Dan O’Bannon and fleshed out with the help of Roland Shussett long before Ridley Scott was involved with the project at…

Children, as they mature, go through phases of being fascinated with things to the point of near obsession as they come to terms with life. It starts with excretion, and eventually sex and death take their turn in the spotlight. It’s natural. Squelching them trying to inhibit them into a mold of Victorian purity and…

Destroy A Flock of Seagulls?!! That’s horrible! Someone needs to report this threat to Der Kommisar, and get the Human League to intervene! We need to set our alert systems to Depeche Mode, right away! This is Madness! It will be too late if we wait until After The Fire!

You just called for people to be killed. Off to the gulag with you!

Nah, it’s a story about the plastic cups they serve drinks in at Mos Eisley Cantina.

I wonder if you’re seeing the whole picture, here. Perhaps you’re insulated a bit by income class, lawyers aren’t poor people after all. You probably make more in a year than I make in 10. If you live in California, which most Japanese-Americans do, you’re probably a bit insulated too compared to people in the South…

You do realize that actual US soldiers in actual war zones are held to much stricter standards and rules of engagement than that in actual foreign war zones? And they’re dealing with a language barrier on top of everything else. They don’t just deal with the possibility that a civilian suspect might have a firearm,…

Your call. I was born here, and if I had the money and capability I’d get the hell out of here and move to Japan myself. I appreciate your resolve to make things better here, but I no longer think that’s possible. This nation is doomed, and it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. A lot of good people…

I wanted to love this game, really I did. I loved Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve, and FFVII and couldn’t wait to get and play this one. It proceeded to beat that excitement out of me with a brickbat. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t find a single character, setting, or mechanic that wasn’t grating or tedious or silly. I…

Go back home. It’s not safe here. Japan is a far better place, you have left heaven to walk the fires of hell.

The guy did nothing of the sort. A false report claimed these things but they weren’t true, and the police were given a random address. The dude that was shot did absolutely nothing and had no idea anything was wrong. All he did was answer his door.

Speaking as an American, you as a Japanese person don’t have a grasp of how fatally flawed and terminally sick American society is. You don’t have the experience of living with the kind of extreme socioeconomic inequality and struggle, or the extreme racial, sociocultural, regional, political, and religious divides we…

I wholeheartedly second the recommendation of Doki Doki Literature Club. It’s a truly special piece, more than a game and more akin to an experience. And it is indeed something everyone should experience.

Without spoiling it too much, it’s a game that presents itself as a basic, almost generic cutsey anime visual novel…

DDLC is far more than just an “anime protagonist simulator”, it wouldn’t be getting all the praise and push it is if that’s all it was. To tell you what it really is would spoil it though, it’s something that needs to be experienced. It’s free, just download and play it. Only when the final credits have rolled and the…

It’s absolutely something that needs to be experienced. Without spoiling anything, it’s a game that starts with the premise of being a typical anime-inspired cutsey dating sim / virtual novel and becomes so, so much more. Don’t read any more about it, don’t watch any videos about it, just play it. The Morpheus quote…