Yes, I know that. That is the kind of thing that would be amazing among three or four people for a little while and every now and then, now it's news for the world.

They are down to earth and calming. This exists in Western television as well, but with a dog. I actually prefer a cat though. They can be left alone while it seems that a dog is always under "command".

Sorry, no, it's not. It's just a matter of quality. It is not a "game's challenge", but a challenge of writing, production values etc... All shallow stuff compared to gaming's MANY and CONSTANT challenges inherent to the structure and MEDIUM. If you think this is one of the LAST or biggest challenges, you really don't…

I think political correctness and cultural sensitivity has a tendency to be very hit and miss. Not very Ninja-like. More like someone training by turning around really fast and throwing at moving targets without time to decide.

Yes, he has a fascination with natural disaster and whatever upheaves and reconfigures human life. I think he's also biographically predisposed. Of course he likes a good animation for animation's sake, and he can even get carried away just by his likes of an idea, event or character (as in this or Ponyo), but usually…

Yes, he has a fascination with natural disaster and whatever upheaves and reconfigures human life. I think he's also biographically predisposed. It's something he knows and which is meaningful to him and which he would probably pick as relevant in a historical period.

I also don't think it was the sentimental ending that made Nausicaä good (as anyone can see), but simply the story and concept itself (and whatever grains of "sentimentality" are still at its core and in the style, to be consistent), but Anno's scene was certainly a highlight, and Miyazaki judged correctly to give…

I don't think you can put "earthquakes" under his favourite interests and fascinations, I think what interests him there is the human and historical fate, and also the "nationalistic pride" I think is a simplification, and would perhaps be put better as "national pride", with leaving it open to a better definition. At…

Interestingly, it is known that Miyazaki has informally given Hideaki Anno the permission to make it, since he kept asking about it (it was said in various interviews around The Wind Rises, one of them on youtube). (I suppose this might be known, I just thought to mention it.)

"Currently: no news about Studio Ghibli." I would guess this reflects a normal conversation they have every once in a while and not a breaking news declaration. It's simply realistic and actually kind of optimistic. Also, if the directors retire, what do you still expect. I would assume conversations like this...

Good. You might mean the first two phrases, which might not immediately make the intention clear. But I think the sentences after those are clear (even clearer than my second post). Besides, the game was variously criticized for favouring the stealth path too much.

No, that is exactly how I understood it (what else?), but I disagree, and think it's meaningless and highly subjective to say that it's "worse than death" and cannot really be used as a point for analysis in the way that it is used here, as "forcing your hand in a moral decision". Ambiguity, yes, that is obvious, we…

"Dishonored, in yet another clever twist, makes the non-lethal route seems to be the worst one. You can kidnap Lady Boyle and deliver her to a man in a boat, who will take her… somewhere. Dishonored has non-lethal options for other targets as well, and while all of them effectively ruin the lives of the very…

Or MAYBE it's just the point of different levels (and games) not to be all exactly the same. To be (dis?)honest I thought Dishonored was just doing well (but not more). It felt a bit mechanical and detached at times (just learning the best moves with that teleporter thing).

This is all very familiar to me. And just lok at some of those graphics and textures. The Unreal 2 engine was a letdown and I think looks even older now.

Yes, the human existential heartbreak of being the biggest herbivore on earth. Cat haters are simple-minded fools (of the kind who'd probably take down whole ecosystems to build a golf course, and believe in a natural dominion of man over animals), and this trending simple-minded comic book depiction of cats is…

The problem with this zealous exposure of a supposed injustice is that it reduces people to mere receptors of what they think and feel. I see no reason to be zealous about that, I actually think it's kind of silly (apart from potentially insulting) and wonder if people have no other problems (of course they don't, how…

Well, yes, he was one of the most sympathetic characters in Moby Dick, hence the later usage. Apparently it's also a normal surname.

I think Nicolas Winding Refn wanted to say that the graphics looked good, and his word processor glitched.

What has "hater" to do with it. Some people think that's an answer for everything. Unless they want to say something themselves.