I just keep thinking of variations on #5. Sometimes these characters display impressive cleavage despite being very modestly dressed otherwise and/or appearing to be rather pointedly underage. I'm thinking of http://www.summoners.info/w… here, who might be the single most anime bullshit character I know of, but…

I was thinking the same thing, reading the second sentence. "Dystopian," "historical" or "Disney": the word you're looking for is elaborate. Movies that win this tend to have a lot of costumes visible on the screen.

This one's tough because the theory itself is pretty far out there, but yeah. Tired of it for sure.

I gotta admit, I'm wondering what @avclub-669e3876ba6dab37e11e5237f2c8017e:disqus would make of this. The game sounds fun either way, though.

I dunno, it made me laugh. Then again, I definitely have a mental category called "anime bullshit" that some games fall under.

Two of my favorites of my own design were Wherewolf, a lycanthrope with powers of invisibility and teleportation, and Hexcelente, a Mexican mystical hitman for the narcos whose cheerful, gregarious demeanor hid a dark, cruel nature. I haven't really seen those happen elsewhere yet, although Marvel did give us Warwolf…

Given that the other dude appeared to have pulled a hamstring, maybe he was taking it a little easy because the stakes were so relatively low. No point in risking injury for an Italian TV show.

This is the first of these type of games that I actually wished I'd gone casual. Normally, I like the survival aspects of the game - needing to eat and seek shelter - but this isn't really that kind of game, it just plays one on TV. If I had restarted, it would've been on casual—and I still might.

Good lord, did I love Saints Row IV. It's one of the few games that actually delivers on the lunacy that the advertising promised. The marketing copy says (among other things) that "Saints Row IV is to Saints Row: The Third what Saints Row: The Third is to Do The Right Thing," and they aren't really exaggerating…

Starbound - I jumped down into a pit and five Florian snipers killed me dead and all my stuff burst out all over the pit like I was a loot pinata for the Florian snipers. Then I went back for my stuff and I was like an empty loot pinata for the Florian snipers, that doesn't drop anything because I already dropped it…

Yeah, fair enough. Even so, having the discussion go to CGI seems downright weird to me.

Arrgh this frustrates me. Why not recast the role? It happens all the time and it's been a part of the process from the beginning (Remember First Wedge? They left that guy in the movie!) And I get not being able to see Young Leia as anyone other than Young Carrie Fisher, but come on: it's not like she had all that…

I've never met her in person and I still want to ask her, "How are you doing, really?"

Any chance your introductory paragraph undermines your main point somehow?

I mean, I liked the show. I just felt like the writers and showrunners thought I was much, much, much, much more interested in how Baltar was doing than I actually was. I wanted the show to get past him, and they wanted him to be central to the whole experience.

Oh sure! I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm saying that I disliked that the creators of that show deliberately gave him a pass. He was the one character I'd been hoping to turn into a puff of red since pretty much the very first frame of the show, and his continued "adventures" with the group directly,…

I can't speak for anyone else, but I always hated Baltar with a furious intensity. Not seeing the actor anywhere else is unfair, but it's the kind of unfair I'm okay with.

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I liked it better than that, but the karma-houdini trick they did with him did piss me off.

I'm with the reviewer: if there’s no real argument to be made on feminist grounds, then why try? Specifically in the case of Indiana Jones, discussing the series' views on masculinity (to say nothing about its views on Nazis) without discussing those tropes in the pulps that Indy was based on seems foolish to the…