The extent of the 'argument' has been you attributing something to one person that was pointed out to be factually inaccurate, after which it was suggested that you might consider getting what could charitably be called "a life." Anita Sarkeesian can live forever or die in a freak wheat thresher accident, for all…

One day, just on a lark, you really ought to try to leave the basement. There's a whole wide world out there where adult human beings are moving about having careers and traveling and doing all kinds of cool stuff. Also, and this is key, not a single one of them is expecting other adult human beings to give a runny…

Jesus Christ, how old are we on this site?

Weird to think of Adrenaline as standard. I actually felt that Around the Fur and White Pony were much more conventional albums. Adrenaline for me is full of weird half-formed dead ends that they never really explored again.

That was Adria Richards. If you're going to get on a high horse, you might also try directing it at the one who actually did what you're going on about.

Ah, gotcha. That's a whole other ball game. I doubt there's any game that's fully captured the kinds of conditions that bring it about, since usually the only games that grasp any of the complexities of politics are strategy games uninterested in taking the next step to grappling with moral issues.

What, you didn't enjoy the game installing in quarters, and having long sequences where you watch a cutscene of a child frying eggs and humming while you wait for the next quarter of the game to install? For shame.

It really is a complex issue. Not every child soldier is recruited at the point of a gun. Most live in environments where the state is impotent or collapsed outright. Many are orphaned by war, and see it as a means of getting food or security.

I certainly wouldn't deny the perpetrators' humanity, because their human nature is strongly at the fore. There's not a tremendous mystery—it's our good friends carnality and venality, which often don't require an origin story so much as a simple lack of restraining forces, internal or external.

I'd be curious to see how you think David Simon would present sympathetic characters involved in, say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

No Country was 8 years ago, to be fair.

Come for the great food and sandy beaches, stay because you're 50 student protestors and were turned over to the narcos by corrupt police, murdered, and burned in a public dump.

I'm not sure what 'demonize Mexico' even means in this context. There is nothing described in this review that sounds at all different than any one of a thousand real stories from Ciudad Juarez over the last 10-15 years. Stories that Mexican journalists have died by the hundreds in order to tell.

Pilums can't pierce plot armor, and Caesar knows it.

If you ever do, I hope you do "How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog."

Yeah. Peerless warrior, but too thick by half. Capable of great loyalty, and also tremendous (and thoughtless) cruelty.

I hope they'll address the obsolescence of malls in general.

Super excited for Sicario, ever since I read the late Charles Bowden's many works on the cartel violence in Mexico, and the drug trade on the border more generally.

Absolutely. It had the most oversimplified worldview of the entire series, and was hung up on remnants of Mass Effect's moral binary system. The second had shitty button-mashing combat, and endlessly recycled maps, but a much better story IMO, and a much more mature worldview. The third took a thematic step…

I always felt the worst about causing her harm, out of all the characters in that game. She wasn't doing a damn thing but helping the abandoned, and Garl was just protecting her from assholes like me.