I disagree with you about the narrative presented in Wildlands, but the games writing isn’t strong enough for me to waste much time defending it. I don’t think it’s jingoistic, but it also isn’t any good, which is a missed opportunity considering they made the decision to engage a topic as shameful as the War on Drugs.

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I thought by “proper” she meant “effective” as in “a way that communicates your message without alienating everyone around you and causing them to think that you’re a bad person with bad ideas.” But then you came back screaming about how no one has the right to lecture you and calling people jackasses, so I can only…

I mean, it’s a story about immortal zombies beating up ‘orrible monsters in a doomed attempt to stall some sort of nebulous dark entropy that might or might not be preferable to the unending suffering and agony and violence that is virtually all of existence. It’s a little nonsense.

Here’s a good example of the subtle differences between Japanese characters and an American character.

To a point. Would you rather watch Edge of Tomorrow again or watch the live-action Attack on Titan?

Since we already know at least one Chinese engineer who literally built a Scarlett Johansson robot, it doesn’t seem like such a stretch that a cyborg might resemble a Hollywood actress more than an average Japanese woman.

You don’t know anything about my race or religion, but speculate if you want. I can understand why somebody might not want their culture played with in a fictional work, but I do not believe that is a literary criticism, and and I don’t believe it should automatically prevent a storyteller from doing so. There was a…

Jesus, Mohammed, and other miracle workers being wizards would absolutely make sense in a world where wizards are real and would be an acceptable angle to take. It’s not for no reason, it’s to help cement the existence of wizards throughout human history. If you’ll recall, there were a great number of Christians who…

Look, she’s writing about wizards in different places around the world. Unless she’s going to ask permission from every single person whose culture she’s including, she’s going to be appropriating everything she’s writing about. I’m not convinced that’s inherently a bad thing. If she writes, “Natives were scared of…

I don’t remember reading any hand-wringing thinkpieces when Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter came out. Sometimes you have a fun idea for a story that takes place in a historical setting. That’s all the excuse you need.

Anybody is welcome to believe whatever stupid skinwalker bullshit they want. It’s absurd to claim skinwalkers are off-limits to an author because some fool still thinks they’re real. The Da Vinci Code isn’t a shitty book because it plays with beliefs many people still hold, it’s a shitty book because Dan Brown is a…

Human beings are dumb panicky animals who make up absurd shit like skinwalkers when they don’t know any better. You cannot claim to be rational while entertaining the idea that there might be people out there transforming into animals, completely violating all conservation of mass and who the hell knows what other…

A good rule of thumb when choosing what ideas to entertain is if it defies every known law of the universe and was thought up by people living in the stone age, it’s probably complete horseshit. There’s no such thing as a skinwalker and if some idiot believes in them for no other reason than their ancestors believed…

Given that Leia is the one who convinces Han to attempt brining Kylo back to the light, I would think Chewie is pissed as hell that she essentially sent him to his death.

I see a lot of comments echoing this sentiment. Are you guys saying I can’t discover Santana because my dad already listened to the record? There’s plenty of ways to use the word discover that don’t require the thing being discovered to have been hidden from all humans for all time. Any time a new animal is discovered…