*Brandishes Red Pen*

TfAD is a unicorn.

Hard as it is to say, romance novels seem to me to be rule 34 on a highly specific and conceptually broad overdrive.

I was saying boo-urns.

I listened to a fantastic lecture by a woman who did lots of academic work on Nazi propaganda that was entirely on the technique of Riefenstahl and it sort of capped with "…and what really gets to me is that you can't use this wonderful shot or see this beautiful technique without feeling sad that it will always bear…

Well, first, if you go to The South the only way you won't see a people that entirely understands the depth of evil in a way Germany never will is if you are very unusually color blind. I'm certain that's not what you meant but it deserves to be mentioned.

I don't know how much that's true. The women characters in the works he translated certainly don't seem to suffer under his efforts.

Well, the 'like the kind of racist propaganda you would expect from Tolkien's time' argument is kinda complicated by how Tolkien situated LotR in terms of the actual events of his day. He was resistant to analogy readings but had no trouble arguing that resistance in terms that were themselves deeply indebted to…

There are long arguments about the use of color in Tolkien's work among his fanbase. I tend to side with three arguments:
1. I think Chris Tolkien's point that the imagery of movies is inherently corrupting of Tolkien's work because it limits the imagination of the reader is well taken.
2. Trope-wise Tolkien uses a lot…

Eh, I think Grant deserves a lot of blame. Apart from specifics like anti-semitism, the corruption, and the bad Western policy it's hard not to fault him for his role in the transformation of the Republican party into the party of money.

I remember reading a Coulter thing where she declared Truman a secret traitor and I just flipped to a picture of him and was like "WTH, dude, why did everyone think you had something big to hide? You'd think dropping two nuclear bombs on fairly specious grounds would cement you the 'completely out in front' president…

There's plenty of Wilson adoration still out there. He made foreign policy sexy and he's still seen by some as the archetype of the technocrat president.

Yeah, the 'someone else would have done the medium justice' argument really ignores the level at which necessity played a role in Griffith's inspiration. People who weren't making films designed to broadcast these specific rhetorical arguments would not have had the same needs for the tropes that carried them. That…

Hmm, I'm looking to be corrected but might there be a way to write/right this argument without the essential elements of able-ism?

And on my dark side play through of the Republic Trooper - which is essentially Jack Bauer innn Spppaaaaace more so than ME even - I found myself feeling vindicated that I was getting results in the horrifically corrupt and incompetent system that was the Republic until I realized that it was exactly my sort of…

Kotor 2 had some amazing stuff. The MMO, perhaps coincidentally, had some great things too. I played through as the 'wicked' Sith Warrior and found myself thinking "You know, I'm not so bad. No blowing up planets for kicks for me. And all these fools I'm murdering are… exactly the people who wouldn't perpetuate the…

In my tabletop last week, there was this amazing moment where the players just blew threw a week's worth of moral dilemmas with, essentially, basic and good tow truck logic that would have been entirely unavailable in a video game and thus was not the assumption of the writer's of the adventure in question.

Thinking about it I think the hardest choice for me wasn't Anders in that game it was…

I really think the KOTOR games are underrated in terms of their moral range as a whole.

Far as I'm concerned, you're the GD DMV.