Nnnnope. Theon was taking over Winterfell to prove he was a big man and make his father love him. His father ordered the invasion for power and his own pride. Daenerys is trying to take the seven kingdoms to end tyrannical rulership and destroy an unjust, cruel system. She is justified, he was not. She executes people…

Being an outsider with a bad family history doesn’t require you to be a tyrant. It is why she has to hit the enemy army so hard and fierce; to prove herself. That isn’t tyrannical behavior, it’s commanding the respect of your opponent. She can earn the faith and trust of the people after she defeats her enemies, but…

SPOILED?! She was raised a slave, sold into sexual servitude, and treated like property most of her life. She had literally nothing. She endured abuse after abuse for at least 17 years until she began finding ways to claw some semblance of control back for herself.

Except it is. She gave them every opportunity not to get executed and they refused. It was their choice. By following through, she sent a message that she means business, and will likely prevent scores more deaths.

The comparison with TWD is perfect. I loved this show for the ways it avoided doing things every other show would do. Now, every decision they make is the same old tired, dumb TV logic. It’s conflict for its own sake to serve the whims of the writers, not drawn from character to serve the story. I’m so exhausted by it.

Last episode broke me. I’ve been a defender of the show for so long, standing up when people shat on the writing, finding excuses and justifications and a silver lining. But that last episode... It was so contrived; nobody did anything that made sense for their character, it was all just the hand of the writers moving…

“Not yet” is a polite “No” you reserve for someone you don’t want to throw out of your life. Women don’t always feel like they have the safety to say a blunt “No” to men; often guys turn into belligerent a-holes when they get rejected. Not yet is safer than no, but it means the same thing. If it didn’t, then she’d…

Very, very well said.

Thank you. That was my thought as well. Where’s God’s grace when all those other people are shot and killed every day?

They don’t have time to mince words, here. There’s, what, six episodes? Seven, maybe? And in that time we have to defeat the white walker army, kill the Night King, deal with Circe, decide the throne, and resolve the arcs for a dozen major characters. I don’t think a single episode will spare any time this season, and…

Yeah, it’s driven far more by the crazy people who DON’T live in border states, just like the people most afraid of terrorism are the ones who live in places that would never be a target in a million years - oh, but they’re happy to sell out the freedom, privacy, and dignity of all the people who DO live in those…

Nobody in America wants prison to be about rehabilitation. This country wants prison to be about punishment - especially White America, even more especially White Conservative America, who have a huge bug up their collective asses about people getting “what they deserve.” Which almost always means that they deserve to…

If you’re a white kid and you have an apostrophe in your name, your parents are trash. I don’t care how wealthy they are, they’re garbage.

There’s a chance that it’s an innocent coincidence. Games could just be trying to add more Hispanic characters - a historically under-represented group - and since the characters are coming in right now, well, “tough guy” street hood types are popular archetypes for gamers atm, and probably even moreso in the fighting…

Absolutely shameless. They’re even using the identical font for damage!

This is pretty gross to me. The degree to which this game is straight ripping off Darkest Dungeon is stunning. Like... I’m usually chill enough about copycats, and within a game genre there’s always going to be an amount of conceptual overlap, but come on! If these characters didn’t involve an amount of straight…

Yeah, the third act went too quickly. There was a lot of interference and it was rushed out the door by the publisher (will they ever stop doing that to almost-great games?) but it didn’t diminish my enjoyment, just made me want more. On the whole, I’d rather come away from a game wishing there was more of it than…

Brutal Legend is a criminally underrated game. I’ve never been so disappointed to know a game didn’t have sequels as when I finished that one. Finding out how fun BL was (and what an insane soundtrack it had) was one of the most wonderful surprises I’ve ever had playing games.

I’d say Sin City was a different case, as it was presented as a series of short stories. Each story had its own small, simple plot to deliver, so nothing ever got so complicated that you lost track of who was doing what to whom. With Alita, I was often confused as to just who Vector was and what he was in charge of.…