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“Girl” is a multi-use generic term for women that does not exclusively relate to age. It can, as when used like boy/girl (though boy is beginning to lose it’s age relation as well), but it is also the more broad match to guy. “Hey, guys!/Hey, girls!” The insistence that any reference to an adult woman as “girl” is

Why? That’s such an arbitrary viewpoint. One of the things that made Tim Drake such a great character was that he didn’t see Robin as a temporary stepping stone, but as a goal in itself; he just wanted to be the best Robin he could be. He really cared about the name, the role, and what it meant. Stephanie owned the

For me, it’s that nobody makes that kind of RPG anymore— third person, action-driven, character-full, story-based, full of NPCs you really care about and starring a character you design and can make choices for that at least give you the feeling of it being *your* version of the story. No loot boxes, no grinding for

I enjoyed it! I think it’s a better movie than anything we’ve gotten before, though the ‘95 original might be more... fun? I don’t necessarily think this was a good movie, but I don’t think it was a bad movie, either. Great action, as everybody says. I liked the characters and performances, outside of the New Guy who

Right? What’s the point of building hype for something this early when that very same hype is the greatest possible danger to your project? Just sit on it until it’s done. Once it’s out in the wild and passed around to all who want it, it’s a lot harder for anybody to shut down.

Waitwaitwait... so the argument here is that having GG doing vocals is... somehow... not making the song even better? Is there anything that Gottfried’s dulcet tones don’t improve? I’d listen to him cover anything! Highway 61 Revisited, Born to Run, The Joshua Tree, Black on Both Sides, the Family Ties theme song...

I have no capacity for excitement about DA4. There are a lot of reasons, but probably the easiest way to put it concisely is this - the gaming industry no longer seems interested in making the kinds of games I most enjoy playing, and almost every major trend in gaming today is something I don’t enjoy. For DA4 to be a

I’ll go one further and say that DA2, flaws and all, is the best Dragon Age game. Part of that is because the other two are also extremely flawed games, even if people don’t want to admit it or those flaws didn’t bother them for whatever reason. But I feel like everything I love in Bioware games - deep, interesting

No, she doesn’t. One time - once - on first arriving at the citadel, she says it’s hard to know which are sentient species and which are animals. She doesn’t say all aliens are animals, but that it can be hard to tell who has intelligence until they announce it. Which is 100% fair when you have species like the hanar

Ash isn’t a racist. She says a couple things early on about not trusting the council races - a mistrust grounded in very recent history and not at all unfounded - and everybody misinterprets it. There’s an entry from a much longer, very good retrospective on ME that I’ll link to below that does a good job of debunking

I wish I had even a sliver of faith that any of this testimony would mean anything. I don’t see any chance that this guy faces any consequences for what he’s done. Executes a man in broad daylight, in public, on camera, and he’ll probably get a Fox News gig out of it. I just have no hope in this world or its people

See, it’s this shit right here - what makes you think that a story about how online ridicule led a man to contemplate suicide is the right forum for you to air your petty grievances about his films? It isn’t just you - almost every comment here is some variation of “Yeah, but _____ really did suck, tho...” You people

Pfft! Steeeve.

He’s the muthaflippin’...?

Twitch accused him of “harassment via username” and once again informed him that the suspension was indefinite—aka, a ban

Over the last year, video games have become the only fun thing I get to do. Everything else in my life is either related to my job or an obligation. Only for the hour or two at the end of the night when I get to play a game am I doing something purely for the fun of doing it. I don’t get to see friends, I don’t have

It’s also kind of the idea behind “teleportation death,” in a way - if all your atoms are broken apart and you’re reassembled somewhere else, is it really you? Or just a copy of you? Did the real you die and a perfect duplicate take your place with all your memories? Can we even know?! It really ruined teleportation

The Ship of Theseus is a famous thought experiment. How much of a thing can you remove and replace before it’s no longer the original thing anymore? Most recently used in an excellent scene in the finale of WandaVision.