>The series is built on choice but not a single choice you have made affects the ending

I remember buying Parasite Eve when it first came out. I had the hardest time finishing it because I was mostly bored by it. But who knows, as an adult I might enjoy it if I replayed it. But I don’t care enough to pay for a copy.

I think you’re spot on about writing and your observations of the characters.

I think you’re right on both accounts.

It isn’t irrelevant, its just very modern. The whole idea of individual rights and personal freedom is something that has only emerged in fits and starts over the last 500 years or so. Collective violence and prejudice is much older and therefore hard to eliminate.

The official sounding quote certainly backs up what you’re saying. But then David Bedard, the co-founder, said: 

>Why does Saga being a black woman have to justify itself narratively to make sense?

>a Kotaku journalist

>plant-based curious

So, how is this “fiercely original”?

I wonder how Guy’s wine business is holding up.

Control is one of the best games of the last decade. The urban fantasy/bureaucratic horror setting is very well done, the game is gorgeous, the story is engrossing, and the  gameplay is awesome. I suggest it to everyone all the time.

>people who are bordering on the libertarian working at the Federal Reserve

He absolutely isn’t talking about found family, a 21st century post-Industrial concept that is nothing like the ideas common in the 2st century AD Levant. You’re engaged in presentism, broadcasting your beliefs onto the past.

I get it. The second half of the book takes place over years and in a movie would basically be just sets of isolated scenes. Compacting the story to fit within the possible timeframe of a movie run time makes sense. It isn’t like you could have a 5 year old act as Alia in a movie anyway. And you can always get creepy…

“Inflation is caused when the money supply in an economy grows at faster rate than the economy’s ability to produce goods and services.”

-those pesky libertarians at the St. Louis Federal Reserve.

You have it exactly backwards. D. Walker’s take is a 21st century understand that projects modern concepts of society back into the past. When you actually read the story being referred to it becomes very obvious:

I think Dune 3 could fix the problem with Chani pretty easy. I would just include a prologue where Lady Jessica finds Chani in some sietch and they have their famous “history will remember us as wives” conversation. Whether Chani believes Paul is the Mahdi or not, he has led the Fremen to their greatest victories and…

While I agree, it is worth remembering that Protestantism is basically built on the assumption that Catholics aren’t real Christians. The Separatist Puritans left England because Anglicanism was too Catholic for them.

Absolutely correct. The problem is that Democrats and Republicans both want more money printing and more checks, not less.