It’s true that Star Trek movies were bad before - Khan and First Contact are really the only ones worth watching. But even when they were introducing dumb new races or injecting action sequences, they didn’t have the audacity to erase four series’ worth of continuity, or turn Academy graduates into captains overnight,…

Faux. Immitation, false, often of inferior or failing quality. Considering that Into Darkness was a brainless retread of Wrath of Khan and that both of the new movies seem either ignorant or outright hostile towards the intellectual aspects of the television series, I’d say it’s a very appropriate label for the Abrams…

The ship customization and combat can be fun, there’s a ton of variety and strategy in the choice of starship types and officer slots. Unfortunately that’s only half of the game, and the combat on foot is duller than something that’s so dull that it doesn’t even deserve to be in the second half of this analogy.

Damn. I haven’t played STO since the F2P update made it about as appealing as a six-year-old begging for a quarter over and over again, but the lack of Faux Trek elements was one of its last good points. The fact that the story continued post-Voyager, and even incorporated a few elements from the wide and deep…

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I think having ultimate status carry over between character switches is too easy to exploit. Everyone would heal the shit out of each other as Mercy on attack, get that ultimate up, then run back to spawn and switch to some devastating combo of ultimates, like Zarya-Hanzo-Pharah.

Odd that an FPS and a MOBA would be so comparable in the same space. I realize that the big focus on varied heroes and super attacks in Overwatch is directly inspired by MOBAs, but the play styles are so different. I really enjoy stuff like Overwatch and TF2, but I can’t stand the click-click-click tedium of LoL or…

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You just can’t help yourself. It’s like a dog with a bone. When you apply for that open position at the ICC in the Hague so that you can accuse strangers of hate crimes, remember not to quit your day job first.

No, apparently you can’t resist unfounded accusations of racism or putting words in my mouth for a single post. Go ahead, see if you can wring another one out of two sentences - can’t let your streak end now.

You said that you’ve reported all my posts as hate speech. Who’s trying to silence who again? You are actively attempting to moderate me, and you continue to put words in my mouth without basis. (Can you even write one post where you don’t accuse me of some new hate crime?) You aren’t interested in fighting racists,…

I’m not going to give you the satisfaction of refuting accusations that you made up with no basis, merely to defend an indefensibly racist depiction. And before you ask, I’m not going to tell you when I stopped beating my wife, either.

All of this stuff is getting so elaborate for something that started as geeks dressing up for conventions. What kind of money do these professional shoots cost, and what’s the structure for their return on investment? How much do these specialized models and photographers make - I’m assuming that they’re doing this…

I never said anything about Chinese people, or Jews, or even compared black people to homo erectus - you did all that. I never brought in the Japanese occupation of China or current censorship or cried hate speech to try and silence my opponent - all you.

I brought up the Nazi imagery because it’s part of the racist cartoon you’re defending. You called me Hitler because you wanted more straw for your straw man. And now because I called you on it, you’re somehow using it as bait to call me a super-mega-ultra-triple racist, like a petulant child on a playground. The…

To be fair, this was just an email blast. It’s entirely possible that whoever cobbled together some basic art assets for a throwaway ad was ignorant of the copyright implications... but yeah, it’s more likely that they just didn’t care. More fool them for copying from a well-known video game instead of (as they were…

Wow. Just amazing. You’ve now lowered yourself to calling me Literally Hitler to desperately support your straw man argument (losing by default according to Godwin’s Law, by the way) in defense of a property that features a German hero named Adolph. Your willful lack of awareness is astounding.

I’m not going to break down the history of racist caricature for you here, because it’s clear that 1) you wouldn’t understand it and 2) you’d just try and side-step the issue to call me a racist again. And yeah, by all means ignore the neo-Nazi themes that are baked into the source material that I just pointed out.

Elsewhere in the manga: a god-like Aryan hero who just happens to be the product of eugenics. He kills scores of his “black foes” with the help of his German friends, Adolf and Eva.