I largely agree with you, but there’s a few key points where we differ. For example, I mostly work in memory research. In some ways it’s more useful than neuroscience in teasing out how information is processed. Neuroscience can tell you a lot about the hardware, and what bits of the brain are doing what, but not a…

As someone who can rant about social psychology studies for a good hour... it’s more complicated than that.

Firstly, a lot of studies are properly designed studies with, yes, some issues. The fact that they tend to use college students for samples is one of them (though it can be quite a large pool depending on where…

Because, as a psychology student myself, they’re all like that. Every study has tradeoffs. You have to design the best one possible. This study decided to try and replicate the findings of the original as closely as possible. If you don’t use psych students to participate, then you’ve introduced a variable different…

No, there is absolutely a reproducibility problem in psychology. And it’s not just because of people in hard sciences, or science journalism. The people saying there’s a replicability crisis are mostly people inside the field.

It’s not a problem of old findings being disproved. They aren’t being disproved by these…

That... typically is considered a subset of psychology. As in... I’m getting a graduate degree in psychology, and I work in the department of cognition and neuroscience.

Now, I don’t take offense. A lot of psychology is pretty crap. But the cognitive science people, even the non-neuroscientists, do some pretty good…

There’s actually a lot of good psychology work being done, it’s just... done mostly in fields no one cares about. Studies that get the attention of the internet tend to come from Social psychology, who are some of the people being hit hardest by the replicability crisis. Across psychology there’s a poor understanding…

I’m fine with adaptations and changing things. My problem with the Flash’s Justice League suit is that it is ugly as sin and really doesn’t have to be. You can do one that looks good on screen (they’ve done it with Superman. I thought the Superman Returns costume was overtextured, but otherwise fine) without departing…

I’m taking this as a threat. This is how the studio tells us to stop complaining about Flash’s awful costume: by proving it could be worse and it WILL be next time if you don’t learn your place.

I never said you had to port old games exclusively (though you might as well while you’re at it). I specifically mentioned Obduction (which, as it turns out, is slated for an Occulus Rift release) because it’s brand new. The VR version is still a port though. It was developed for another system. As for a single case…

No, VR is going to need ports to take off. The hardware is prohibitively expensive as it is right now. Some early adapters will take to it, but they won’t stick around long because there won’t be any software for it. It’s not worth it for developers to invest in VR exclusives, because there’s not a big enough consumer…

So... Myst would be a cute gimmick for about 30 seconds and forgotten about when Obduction is ported to VR? Well, hell, they could just package them together. Problem solved.

(I am assuming Obduction is good. I backed the thing, but my system is JUST too shitty to actually run the damn thing. I’ve heard it’s good. ...…

Yeah, Cap snogging Sharon while Peggy wasn’t yet cold... and was Sharon’s aunt was definitely creepy and weird. But it doesn’t compare to ignoring the injured and/or dying to make out. (Which is extra bad if you consider that some of them are almost certainly crying out for help... we can’t hear them as the audience,…

Well that’s fair enough. I’m something of a miserable git, so for me a film about two deeply flawed people acting out their flaws and terrible consequences of such is right up my alley. ... I also admit, I thought Captain America was a bit of a self righteous asshole back in Winter Soldier, so I enjoyed seeing that…

Well, yeah, that’s why bringing up issues like... real ethics are kind of a bad idea in Superhero terms. For superheroism to work, you basically have to ignore the fact that the law is in the hands of people who are not accountable in any way. There’s a reason there are laws against being a vigilante after all, and…

I had a much bigger problem with his making out with Lois Lane in the middle of a literal disaster area, instead of helping anyone. No one ever mentions it but, while you can try to rationalize killing one person to save others, or whatever else, there is really no excuse for being Superman and putting macking as a…

... I think you’ve put your finger on exactly what it is about that speech that makes people leery.

Kinda... the thing is, for the most examples like that, it’s really “The wants of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” When Spock says it, he really means needs. Like, the Enterprise crew really did need for the ship to haul ass out of there, and thus needed a working engine. Spock also needed to not go into a…

I didn’t really think it helped. “Compromise where you can” says “You are still right, but deal with wrong people if it’s not too much of a stretch.” Compromise is good, but it’s no substitute for actually considering what other people say and reevaluating your position. If, after sober analysis, you are still right,…

I felt like the film didn’t try to depict Cap as being unambiguously right though. Really, even if you agree with his views, it’s pretty clear he’s coming at them for all the wrong reasons. Both Captain America and Iron Man hold up potentially valid ideals, but both for misguided reasons. That’s why it works.

Yeah but... Captain America was also acting out of self interest for a lot of that film. Even if you think he was right overall, he did really stupid stuff to serve his own ends, and not the greater good. Going to stop Bucky getting killed by the police/the police getting killed by Bucky? Fair. Maybe Cap doing it…