I was looking for The Demon Seed but it apparently missed the cut. Perhaps it’s an artifact of when I saw it, at around 6 or 7, but it was utterly horrifying to me.

David Harbour’s character is Wertz in the first paragraph, but Mertz in the rest of the review.

But in context, how is any of that really appreciably worse than Sansa having Ramsay eaten alive by hounds or ordering Arya to slit Littlefinger’s throat? Why is it such a signifier of great evil on Dany’s part, but similar acts equate to wisdom and strength on Sansa’s?

You finally really did it! You maniac! You read it! I’d say God Damn You, but you’ve already damned yourself.

Although, as the recent Jackie Chan situation underscores, it ultimately may not even matter how punctiliously they parrot the latest CCP propaganda. They can still end up vanishing like Fan Bingbing.

I’m a middle-aged ‘gamer’ now too (although I indulge seldom enough these days given my sons’ monopolization of the various systems that gatekeepers might contest the title). I grew up playing games like Wizard’s Crown, Roadwar 2000, and yes, Wasteland. I even corresponded with Ken St. Andre as he was developing…

I remember this being completely forgettable even at the time, and for a preteen who loved D&D back then, that was really saying something. It was no Dragonlance, that’s for sure, although I doubt that would hold up now either.

Is Joel Kinnaman lining up to be the next Sean Bean in terms of getting killed off or otherwise not making it into season 2s?

If only Will Smith hadn’t passed on the role. By doing so, he immediately made the entire film racist. Ah well.

All of these replies castigating Epic for an overly dramatic comparison of Apple’s monopoly to an Orwellian Big Brother seem to catastrophically miss the point- If there’s anyone that criticism should be leveled at, it’s Apple, for making that comparison in the first place with their iconic sledgehammer ad. They…

Which is how one gets the standing to contest these kinds of things. I guess the same logic makes Rosa Parks the ‘antagonist’ in the NAACP’s Montgomery bus boycott. 

That still gives Chris far too much credit. He isn’t really a coder at all any more, and wasn’t really even the primary programmer for Wing Commander. He’s much more Bunky Bartlett than Notch. He could code games back in the 80s, but he was primarily a designer and director even then, and he certainly fancies himself…

BDSGE, Star Citizen ARG, selling JPGs, space serfs... If I didn’t know better, I might think you were a goon or filthy refundian. I’m going to have to carefully watch you for any mention of turning a blue pixel green, the stimpire, or citizens’ obsession with the natural consequences of losing.

I loved this write-up. It reminded me of the GI Joe After Action reports that inspired me to register for a SomethingAwful account too long ago to contemplate while still sober. I want to read more 80s cartoon analysis. Perhaps MASK or Silverhawks next.

I’m not really up on the demographics of porn content creation, but I’ve certainly seen enough Patreon and OnlyFans comments to think that the barrier between content creators and their audiences should be greatly diminished these days. If the ‘big publishers’ want to pay black performers less, is there a means to…

This is truly an indicator of who is really perpetuating ‘outrage culture’. Imagine if Americans whined about the original Red Dawn. Evil Russians invade, perpetrating authoritarians horrors on the American protagonists, and the Americans complain it makes *them* look bad? Are you joking? The liberals in this movie…

As someone who recently started playing it after a co-worker lured me back into Magic with it, I’m having trouble personally visualizing how well it would work, even on a phablet. For players who are already tremendously well-versed in each of the cards, maybe you could forego the need to be able to readily read card…

Agreed. I’d like to see my legs too. It felt really good in Lone Echo to be able to extend my arms and see my robotic appendages, and doing things like mantling just doesn’t seem like it would feel right without visible limbs.

An individual character’s motivations are not an implicit or explicit endorsement of that belief. Just because Yennefer longs for beauty enough to endure tremendous pain and sacrifice the ability to have children to achieve it (even as she fears that it won’t ultimately grant her the love and acceptance she craves)…

Hmm... Marc Spector, heavyweight boxer and marine turned hard-bitten profiteering soldier for hire, killed during the looting of a temple and resurrected to enact vengeance on behalf of its god, the guy so recklessly rough and tumble that Taskmaster won’t emulate his style because he’d rather take a punch than dodge…