I think God sanctioning infinite torture for finite sin is proof that he's not benevolent, if he exists.

We still have the odd shooting death in Australia. We do not have mass shootings anymore since gun control. I think that's pretty obvious evidence that gun control prevents the most prolific and troubling murders, the murders that the US is struggling with at the moment. Unless you're suggesting that people with…

That would mean we would have to have concealed or open carry laws in order for the tourists there to have guns and frankly, even pre gun control, was that was never legal in Australia, nor would anyone accept it here. Nor do I think allowing people to carry guns in public makes the public any safer. It just stokes…

I work in a STEM fields and everyone who learns this fact about me then tried to get me to watch it.

This and Project Zero were the only two games I had to stop playing. The woman in the mask with nails through the eye holes screaming "MY EYEEES!" was what finally made me turn it off.

Whoever wins, we lose.

Lot's daughters getting him drunk in a cave so they could fuck him and restart the human race.

Anyone who's read From Hell can confirm that last part.

Your point seems to be that if a Western isn't 100% historically accurate then it is as equally unrealistic as superhero movie. Which is just wilfully obtuse because answering a phone on a horse, while anachronistic for a period drama, is something I could literally do right now, but tearing that same horse into…

This is where Netflix and the like come in. The movies can go on appealing to the lowest common denominator and TV series can get experimental.

10/10 would worship

Oh god I forgot about the Kung Fu gunfights. I've never felt second hand embarrassment for a movie before. Not Christian Bale, the actual entire movie.

We did The Turn of the Screw in high school which is wonderful Gothic horror. But I didn't go to school in the US either.

The coach ride alone is brilliant and builds the sense of dread in a really short space of time. I wonder what it would have been like to read it when it was first published before all those tropes has been established. It would have been genuinely shocking.

Then again, Joe Arpaio is a real person.

Yeah I think this is a huge point. In Australia we have state and federal police. That's it. Qualification for state police are pretty rigid, you need tertiary qualifications and a lot of cops have criminology degrees. From the outside it's hard to see how such appalling things happen with such regularity in the US…

They're essentially telling the public to treat all police as potential rabid dogs. Don't make any sudden movements, don't run, don't make eye contact lest you provoke an attack. When a dog goes rabid, the solution isn't too let it run around and tell people to be more careful. It's to shoot the dog.

"Nuance" is not really in their wheelhouse.

Apparently only 5% of the population develops Kohlberg's post-conventional morality and I'm willing to bet none of them are cops.

"Being too PC" just means not being a raging arsehole now.