I really don't get all the backlash about it being set in America. About casting Efron and Freeman? I can see that. They're completely unsuited. But the idea of making a live action version of Akira, or of trying to adapt it to an American setting... what's wrong with that? I mean, Twelve Monkeys is an Americanized…

@Craig Michael Ranapia: I dunno, I think that Akira is pretty obscure. I mean, I know anime fans who haven't even seen it or anything else older than Bebop, so as far as the mainstream goes it's probably not exactly known at all.

Kimiko is basically the worst part of Dresden Codak. Up until the Hob storyline she was fine but since she's kind of got increasingly lame. Oh gosh a cyborg asian chick in revealing clothing who plays to the author's sexual and fictional fetishes. How novel!

@WookieLifeDay: Not really, since most modern fantasy (such as the move towards urban fantasy/fantastic realism) is a conceived as a reaction to the fact that Tolkien is increasingly being rejected for his awful prose/backwards politics/overt racism.

@WookieLifeDay: When did I say that others shouldn't read his stuff? All I did was say that he's basically politically shitty in the same way as jihadists and that that colors his writing.

@WookieLifeDay: Actually if you'd studied tolkien you'd know that basically everything he believed and did was informed by hardline conservative Catholicism.

@WookieLifeDay:

Wait wait wait socially regressive lunatics who have a hardon for

Good. Fuck space. It's rubbish.

@corpore-metal: Hearing a cogent argument for the pro-aging side would be just as fresh for the same reason, man. Really, hearing ANYTHING from a big budget SF film outside of cliches and clumsy, regressive truisms would be fresh and soothing.

@corpore-metal: Huh? Maybe I wasn't clear. What I was trying to say is that it's possible for either point to be made depending on the 'rules' the film devises for its technology, but that the pro-let's-all-die-like-normal-instead-of-being-young-forever side gets given short shrift by people because it's so often done…

@corpore-metal: It's not lame nonsense. It's just usually horribly handled because an actual discussion to justify it would involve talking about boring things like materials scarcity, the processes by which epochal change occurs, etc, and let's face it that would be hella fuckoff dull I wanna see some splosions.

I've brought it up on the observation deck, but basically everyone should read Charles Stross's post on Steampunk. [www.antipope.org]

@colormist: More likely to be isn't the same as definitely is, man.

@collex: While correlation and causation aren't the same thing, the former is used to establish the latter.

@colormist: Actually there was a study a while back that indicated that people who who abstained from social activity were more likely to be conservative and less likely to display empathy.

@peteer02: hates geofencing: That's why the plot and dialogue will probably blow like the plot in dialogue in Mass Effect. The posing and bland character design are secondary concerns, although come to think of it the character design in the games is kind of bland and dull too.

Poses are awkward, character design is super bland. Plot and Dialogue will probably blow like in the game.

Has anyone posted that Pictures for Sad Children comic yet? Someone shohuld post that Pictures for Sad Children comic.

Huh. Isn't Dead State also set in Georgia?