That zombie horse trapped perpetually in the midst of giving birth to a zombie horse is something I will never unsee.

These aren’t copies. He isn’t copying anything - these are transformative works that reframe a narrative into something completely new. This does require originality, passion, and work. He’s using the language of mainstream comics to say something meaningful, speaking from a culture many in that mainstream don’t fully…

I mean, when you look back over your shoulder and see that the thing falling at you is tall and narrow, you could make a guess that maybe left or right aren’t perfect options but you damn sure can’t outrun it going straight.

That’s where you’re wrong. These things might not matter to you, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t qualitative metrics by which a movie can be judged. You can disagree with whether they mean anything, but that’s your subjective opinion. You can’t disagree with whether they’re true, because they patently and…

That’s easy. Without even having to go into any long discussions of film theory, storycrafting, or visual imagery, you can list several metrics right away:

This should be the hierarchy of who a company cares about most:

No, he’s right - you are objectively incorrect. You said BP was not a great movie by any standard. There are, in fact, several standards by which it was a great film. Therefore, you were objectively incorrect. If you’d even just said “it wasn’t a great movie,” you’d have more ground to stand on, but to say it wasn’t…

If we’re serious about wanting to change this kind of behavior, the only way to do it is to address Wall Street and the nature of investment and finance. Right now, a company’s stock price is dependent on its value going up quarter to quarter. Constantly. It has to go up forever.

You aren’t wrong, but... Hermione/Ron is a little absurd. ;)

Hear, hear. I’ve long said that the films did a far better job of telling a story comprised of people with emotions, desires, and frailties than the books ever did. The novels are solid fantasy travelogues, and provide some interesting background for some fictional languages, but I’m convinced that’s all Tolkein…

The real price would be the closing of a revenue stream that, while predatory and unethical, is one many publishers have come to rely on. This will allow them to tinker with and adjust loot boxes rather than lose them altogether. Considering the losses you point to, this could be win-win for the industry, with EA’s…

Self-regulation, for whatever positive change it creates, only happens when an industry fears real regulation. It’s important that people pressure lawmakers to the point that lawmakers pressure industries so they feel like they’d better do something themselves or risk actually paying a real price for what they’ve…

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I just want to reply again to say how much I’m enjoying your discussions on this game. We think very much along the same lines, and I appreciate the even-handed and thoughtful way you frame your ideas. Thanks for providing a string of good reads!

The short run of Inquisition is definitely more enjoyable than the long road, I was just surprised how little there was to it. I was actively trying to have a good time, and couldn’t help finding disappointment at every turn.

The thing is, Mass Effect is my favorite game franchise. Taken as a whole, I like it better than anything else I’ve ever played. Taken as a whole. But individual games in the series don’t stand as strongly on their own as they do as part of the larger tale. DA2 works as its own enclosed narrative, and I think has a…

I actually tried this. I played a 30 hour run, just mainlining the story and the quests I actually enjoyed. What I found was that, stripped of all the illusion of grandeur the game presents and all the distractions that make it feel big, long, and epic - the story is actually pretty dull and uninteresting. Corypheus…

It’s an unpopular opinion, but I think DA2 was the best of the series by a mile. It miiiight even be better than any single entry in the Mass Effect series, but that’s not something I’m committing to without thinking on it a lot more. In any case, DA2 did everything I love in a Bioware game: deep story that gives me a…

I’d have been far happier to play a 20-hour DAI that was pure story and plot quests, even if it was more on rails and had zero open world, than to have spent over 100 hours on thing after thing that ultimately felt like wastes of my time.

Here’s the part that I know would grind Goodkind’s gears - I read Faith of the Fallen as a total Socialist polemic, and LOVED IT. Looking back, I can see how he was advocating Randian garbage, but at the time all I saw was “If we do good for each other, even without payment, good comes back and we are paid in…