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“Dude, have you even read your own books?”

I was JUST thinking about that today. Card’s most famous book is about a protagonist so insanely empathetic that he loves a bunch of killer bugs, so much that he’s the only one who can kill them, and it sends him into a depression that lasts literally centuries. In that context, it’s amazing that the author is such an…

Creatives tend to be liberal. Good storytelling tends to require empathy with a variety of characters in order to convincingly portray them. The reason there aren’t a whole lot of boycotts of conservative writers (there’s Orson Scott Card, and . . .?) is that conservative writers don’t tend to write highly regarded…

Already holding liberal and open-minded beliefs, videogames haven’t taught me much...except that I can’t stomach being an asshole to people who don’t deserve it. I tried to do a Renegade run on the first Mass Effect after being mostly Paragon, got to the conversation with Ashley after the tutorial mission. She just…

I’ve been thinking about this too.

It was his tongue that did it wasn’t it?
Always thought that was a gateway.... :)-

“It’s very rare to be awarded the opportunity where not only do you get to make a decision that has immediate consequences, but the feedback is also immediate and visceral, explicit, you know: music, emotion, voice,” Berktresser said. “So you see the results of your decision right away.”

tbf, Gita can only write about the people that respond to her for input.

But fortunately that’s what the comments sections are for. Do you have any examples of a video game moving you politically to the right that you’d like to share?

And, I mean, are you suggesting that “recognizing that Iraqis are people” and…

It is interesting how people tend to reject conservative bias as they grow into adults and start thinking for themselves, isn’t it?

Battletoads *definitely* made me a nihilist, at least for a while.

I know it’s trite to say but the Mass Effect games really did make me think about a large variety of social situations that I was otherwise unfamiliar with at the time.
Other games that come to mind are Gods Will Be Watching, my interactions with others in EVE Online, This War of Mine, and Papers Please. All four of…

Fallout: New Vegas’s Honest Hearts DLC

I like the Wolfenstein games for reinforcing notions on how best to deal with Nazis and those who would cater to them.

Love too admit to fucking a woman without her consent in order to *checks notes* “defend a comedian with a new Netflix special”.

I didn’t have much hope for this, but was curious because Gray’s usually good with stylish popcorn movies. Thompson/Hemsworth both have box office draw, but they’re also boring as shit to watch and have no range even for something as low-stakes as this. One can go from plain cocky to snarky cocky and the other is a…

The first one ended with the implication that Linda Fiorentino was a full-fledged Man in Black, then the sequel came along and she was nowhere to be found. Whatever happened to her? I mean, other than the fact that she has a reputation for being an enormous pain in the ass, and most people don’t want to work with…

Absolutely right, vbfan and MegaBlastoise. The original “Men in Black” manages to cram a ton of world-building, superlative buddy comedy and a solid plot into a mere 98 minutes of screentime. It even worked in a sad, sweet ending (shamefully undone by the sequel) and a “cosmic zoom” tag that put our Universe in…

A good director can create a wow effect out of cardboard and string. There were a hundred different little things that went into making the first MIB charming as hell and the sequels no so much. Like:

D’onofrio IS a special effect.