Oh, man... it so much is, though. Admittedly a little less so in the very early games, but this is how the women looked in MK9:

Oh, this old cannard? I'll try and explain for you. Suspension of disbelief is a tenuous thing, and to achieve it a creator has to walk a fine line. Ask too much of your audience with too many preposterous things in your story and the audience balks - it's all too ridiculous, and they either walk away or can't take…

This trailer is extremely exciting for me. Not only does the story look interesting (MK9's story mode got me back into MK for the first time since middle school) but holy hell! It's main characters are a couple women who are fully clothed and appear to have chosen their gear and style based on functionality and being…

I know about his personal tragedy, and his son was a pretty great guy (and not a bad up-and-coming writer himself). It was immediately after his death that Jeph lost his edge. He even said in interviews he wanted his stories to be lighter and simpler as a way of dealing with his loss. He tried to get that edge back…

No kidding, man. Hard to believe he wrote some of the best Batman and Superman stories - Long Halloween, Superman For All Seasons, the whole Supes run with Ed McGuinness - and then turned around and became this shallow reflection of himself. Starting, curiously enough, with his run on Batman/Superman. But it just got…

If I could own a smash-cut of JUST the Bison stuff from that SF movie, it would be the best film ever made. I wish it were possible to see the movie Raul Julia thought he was making.

...Which is why people typically don't go to court. But you implied there was no legal recourse if the product you invested in never materializes, and that isn't true.

You're looking primarily at large-scale investments where people with boatloads of cash invest tremendous amounts of money to get a business off the ground (usually so that business can sell out to another business and all the investors can get rich[er] on the sale) but there are a lot of kinds of investing that…

Investors do not always own stakes in a company they support. That would have to be part of the initial agreement signed by both parties, and in this case it isn't; the only thing you're promised as a return is what you get at your "backer level."

Oh my god, I never thought of that but the consequences could be enormous. It's easy to imagine a house getting cased, they see somebody holding a very realistic looking firearm, and just go in shooting. The SWAT teams are hardly known for their restraint to begin with, but this is just... That would be horrible.

He's not saying you're buying the product. He's saying the return on your investment is the chance to own something that wouldn't exist if you didn't invest in the company. Emphasis added because there's no guarantee, just like there's never a guarantee on return for an investment - companies go belly-up, ideas flop,…

Alaska: 64.7

The QfG series is what got me into role-playing in general and changed everything about how I thought of video games. I didn't get into the series until the remake of QfG1 with the mouse interface, so I missed the typing, but when I found out it was part of a series I went out and got 2 & 3. While I love them all…

That's… not a terrible setup, you know? It's the game's one idea, insofar as it seems like an idea that someone actually had, and not a thing someone saw in another game and decided to copy. It's wasted, of course, but it is at the very least a moderately novel setup in our current video-game age of zombie…

You have to bear in mind that some PR suit saying "It's Game of Thrones but..." doesn't necessarily mean the show will bear any resemblance to GoT. It's how those people speak to each other (everything is "it's like X but with Y"), but it's also the only way to get traction with wider audiences.

That changes things, but it isn't spelled out that way in the article. It's stated in a way that makes it sound like something that is put on the character, not that they have chosen.

I understand the desire to take full credit for something new you've uncovered. But still: I found Williams' reasoning a tad...puzzling. What's the point of revealing a new ability to a game's community if you know they won't take kindly to it—so much so that it will most likely never end up being used?

While I agree about disliking the sexualization, I actually never cared for Harley for exactly the same reasons you love her (and why most female fans love her, I suspect). It feels too much like taking an awful, horrible, evil thing and making it okay because it's "cute." She's a murderer. She murders people. She…

So here's a question, and I hope it isn't offensive - I'm legitimately curious about how this would work. If a female is forcibly made to be treated as a male by society (as this character has been), is it correct to change the pronouns from "her" to "him"? It doesn't seem like the person themself has chosen a gender…

Boy, the militarization of the police just don't quit, huh?