Kotor 2 is amazing, but this is partially because it has some terrible Star Wars. It is sort of the Star Wars game that is the most anti-Star Wars. It's excellent, but it's the kind of excellent that is subverting the cliches of a more familiar (Star Warsy) excellence, if you take my meaning.

It's....a map. Of names.

What really gets me is when there is a behavior that's common across a wide variety of cultures and also prevalent in some other closely-related species, and then people still turn around and insist it must be cultural. (Not that it can't be both.) Which would suggest that the trait evolved in some species, then was…

Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. It's bad.

Yeah, they rolled out those nice huge images a few months, and now they already rolling them back? I don't get it.

"The reason people are boycotting is not because Card is a bigot. The reason is because he is a paying board member of NOM."

She shows up in the very last episode of Season 2 and stays a bit into Season 3, as I recall.

Personally, I think it's slightly bizarre to boycott someone for holding views that, no matter how detestable, were basically mainstream a little more than a decade ago. Certainly, your views can have consequences, even on things that aren't directly related, like your science fiction sales. But it seems slightly…

I was wondering about this, too. The most famous sci-fi women authors I can think of (Mary Shelley, Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood) all got promoted out of "science fiction" and into "literature." This certainly happens plenty with men as well (Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams) but I wonder if there's a belief (correct…

Disagree. The villain switcharoo at the end makes a cool statement about how casual cynicism and mutual back-patting among bureaucrats gradually leads to corruption and military (or other bureaucratic) decisions that are terrible and harmful. (Contrast buddy-buddy "we can break whatever rules we want" relationship…

This is the sort of article someone who's never played an adventure game would write.

A Power Girl and Terra (from the 2009 Amanda Conner run) "superheroes in the city" comedy-action movie. Not necessarily based on the plotting from those comics (there wasn't much there,) but incorporating the exasperation of Power Girl ("Do I have to do everything?") with the fish-out-of-water elements of Terra ("How…

Please. Fucking. NO.

Even if the game intends the character to be Jewish, a lot of artistic power could be undermined by a PR rep coming out and flatly stating "Yeah he's Jewish." Let the text speak for itself.

Yeah there was definitely no love story. It was pretty much he just showed up, started being a controlling creep, and eventually she left. She was definitely scared for her life by the end, and, it's been a few years, but I think there may have been a rape scene. (When I read this, I was young enough to not really…

D.C. is not bad, but I find the sameness of the various stations a bit grating and, when I first moved here, more than a little disorienting.

He was really the worst, least nerdy physics genius ever!

Season three at least had some reasonable character development moments from a mostly-reasonable cast that partially resembled the show in seasons one and two. By season four, even that was gone.

If the solution is "use the TARDIS" then you need to think of a better problem.