I think it might be done for all of those reasons. Partly as a longshot that a girl will actually respond to them well (though you must go on a LOT of porn to honestly believe this), partly to assert their masculinity and dominance amongst any men who are watching, partly for the sadistic enjoyment of knowing that you…

Who can say what would or wouldn't be the effect irl of something like Westworld? All I can say is that your arguments resemble the flawed anti video game arguments - flawed not just because they misunderstood the nature of video games but because they misunderstood the nature of human beings - which were debunked…

Whether you tell a child that they are deceiving themselves or not, the humanisation and projection done onto stuffed animals is exactly the same self deception done to the hosts. And you wouldn't consider someone a murderer for destroying one,

I guess that, in some stories, rape and stuff is gonna happen to characters who aren't the main character, and I don't think that by itself reduces the importance of rape. I don't think it's automatically bad to explore how rape affects those who aren't directly victims. But you're treading a fine line. You might end…

I think the fact that the hosts are not robots does play into how someone would treat them, as it does with NPCs in video games, though I admit that Westworld hits a level of verisimilitude that GTA simply can't match. Then again, it's fiction. In the world of Westworld, clearly people aren't returning and going into…

I just don't get it. I don't think the success rate for catcallers is very high, even to justify it as a Hail Mary sort of thing. If anything, it's not worth the trouble, because any women who see that shit who you would have a chance with will correctly right you off as a douchebag. I imagine guys do it as a way to…

They've gotten you, because you're thinking of them as human, which is, of course, exactly why they are in the shape of humans: because that deception is their function.

I don't think it's hate. I think it's a cocktail of bad things which looks like hate, but is actually far worse and far more typical of huge business than we'd like to admit. Contempt for the consumer, hubris, a vain and illogical belief in the power of branding, disdain for the talented people who work for them for…

A few years ago, when I was at uni, I was living with a few girls. I remember when one of them asked me if I wanted to go shopping for food. So we went, and I'm a big guy, and black, so most people on the street give me no trouble, even if I was to step on their toes or some shit. But, anyway, we were walking towards…

I like to go against the grain sometimes, but even I know that the world doesn't particularly give a shit about my hot takes.

Personal tragedy doesn't excuse being a reprehensible human being.

The worst has to be the Killing Joke adaptation that happened recently. I was never a fan of the whole thing in the comics, but the adaptation was far worse. First, it opens with a huge 40 minute digression where Batgirl is facing off against some creepy mobster who is perving on her constantly. She has sex with…

Crime is defined by breaking the law. You can't be guilty of committing a crime if you aren't… committing a crime. Even if you are committing an act which, to some, seems indistinguishable from a crime.

I think they've gotten you too. What makes the raping and killing of the hosts so thrilling is that they are close enough to humans for us to project onto them qualities that they don't have, like sentience. They're as sentient as a toaster.

You had me until Frank Miller.

When people said that American politics is post factual, I didn't realise it had gotten this fucking dire, that someone can say things and then contradict themselves so easily, and yet nobody thinks, hmm, voting for a complete liar isn't a good idea? I mean, even if you're in favour of the awful shit he says, you…

Well, for one, it's the garishness of Sizemore's plot, which had so much stuff going on that it was, honestly, stupid.

It's a fakeout. If he was, then his quest to find a certain location would be really dumb, cos surely he knows where everything is?

Ironically, I think that the guy covered the naked bot because it made him feel uncomfortable. Like, he did it for himself, just as dehumanising them is done for themselves.

You know, deadpool commentary might actually get people buying Blu Rays.