Thank you as well. :)

I don't know enough about bows to know, but I'll take your word for it. I probably wouldn't be able to do it either, as a small guy with relatively weak arms.

I have a friend who can't stand movies that portray certain basic scientific principles unrealistically, because he says it ruins his suspension of disbelief…

I think we're getting closer once we get some realistic baby hairs and skin blemishes. Actually, I was pretty impressed with 343 Industries' work on the Halo 4 opening cinematics with cutscene which shows Dr. Halsey. If they could get in-game rendering to look like that (it may take one more console generation), I…

Totally. I wouldn't body shame someone for being a size zero anymore than I would someone for being a different dress size: in the end, it's their body, it's their choice what they wish to do with it. Of course, if they were abusing their body unhealthily (eg. self-harm) I might feel compelled to ask if they might…

Oh, I missed the trolling part. ;P Ah well, it was still worth it if it led to an interesting discussion, but I could have done without the needless back-and-forth flame war if everyone could discuss the more important aspects of the arguments being made. ;)

I think the problem too is that Jezebel as a feminist…

I'd add that there is merit to over9000flaws' argument: if the producers are choosing JLaw primarily because she's hot (i.e. sexually attractive), then yes, that is sexist, and if JLaw couldn't act or do anything else useful in the film except look pretty, then I would be in agreement, but that's clearly not the case.

T…

I don't think we're disagreeing: I was merely trying to clarify what over9000flaws was talking about, because I was getting the impression that they seemed to think that the main issue that feminists have with the hypersexualized portrayal of women in movies and video games was because it was de facto sexism to have a…

I'm surprised no one has made a commercial modern automatic repeating crossbow. Or maybe someone has and my Google-fu is weak:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating…

I think DangerTits was referring to low-budget movies where they hire people with no background in acting to play major roles in the film, and the end result is a movie that is not entertaining. I don't think DangerTits was talking about the use of CGI characters in movies (which still needs good actors wearing…

I would argue that politically, the issue with the hypersexualized portrayal of women in video games is because it perpetuates the objectification of women as nothing more than sexual objects to be drooled over (presumably by cis-male heteros), not to mention propagating the Beauty Myth which contributes to so many…

So to clarify: you're saying that it's wrong to have Jennifer Lawrence portray Katniss Everdeen (likely chosen because she is nubile, comely and sexually attractive to cis-male heterosexuals), because in reality, it is highly unrealistic that someone of her size, strength, etc. could survive the Hunger Games, and thus…

It's not just an issue of money, it's about how much time in a single day you have to devote to preparing a healthy meal, to go shopping for the ingredients, etc. People on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum tend not to have that luxury of time, energy, etc., even if they had the benefit of nutrition and…

Okay, that is a morbidly hilarious extrapolation of those 'accidental creampie' pr0n.

/going to Hell LOLing

That's false equivalence, because in our society, looks are emphasized much more for women and women are treated first and foremost as sexual objects to be fetishized, or denigrated if they do not live up to impossibly unrealistic standards of 'beauty'.

Not saying unhealthy body image portrayals of men don't affect…

In a way, it's a curiously naive view of reality, or perhaps more accurately, it's a delusional view of reality based on a lifetime consumption of really terrible TV and movie plotlines, where there are always these terrible machinations by evildoers behind the scenes in some sort of conspiracy. I'm surprised they…

Kind of sad because he skewers people like this so well in 'Get Him To The Greek':

Yeah, I'm a Japanese person with a white belt in judo. ;) That is, I spent over a year on it before giving up, and then the owner of the dojo finally tried getting me to coming back by giving me a yellow belt without taking the test, saying that if anyone spent over a year as a white belt they'd earned it, but I…

Fascinating. I did not know this.

/The more you know :)

My mom was pretty incensed because there was at least one actress in that movie who was wearing their kimono backwards. Well, not literally backwards, but like any uniform, there's a right way and a wrong way to wear one, and I guess whoever dressed that actress screwed up. Not exactly forgivable in a multi-million…