Don't line a planter with anything that will biodegrade quickly. Remember, whatever material lines the bottom will be virtually always wet, so if you use something like a simple clothe or that twine-y landscaping material, eventually it will start to fall apart. I think coconut fiber lasts for a while, so that's a…

Yeah but that's one of the things that really removed game appeal for me. The first time I made a forest guardian covenant I thought "man, this is awesome! PVP content that adds to the game experience and unlocks cool stuff!". But then I tried it and it was just brutal, and very silly. And the build that I had wasn't…

I'm not exactly sure what this is supposed to show or prove, but it doesn't really hold up to much scrutiny.

Yeah there's definitely a balance issue in Multiplayer.

Mmm. Then I guess the difference is between my player who was optimized for survivability against monsters, and other players who had optimized for multiplayer carnage. Either way, multiplayer is zero fun for a regular player. It was certainly no fun at somewhere between level 25-30 to be invaded by someone with full…

I don't even know what you're talking about. MP is a disaster. I played the game for months. haven't faced a single black spirit who wasn't armed with a weapon forty levels over my head. And my time facing the forest guardian multiplayers, all I saw was teams of dedicated, super-high level soldiers mowing down anyone…

Dark Souls is kind of a mess. It's a beautiful, fun game but the grinding is HORRIFYINGLY long, every boss requires days of grinding to power up for, and the multiplayer functions are fucked because everyone who's still playing multiplayer is an overpowered level 250 dick, out to prey on new players. You basically…

Sure, and I totally agree with that. You are universally allowed to see what you want to see. Great storytelling based on existing art is always wonderful. Think of Ursula LeGuin's Lavinia. But for something to be art criticism, and to really add to the levels and layers of meaning that surround a work of art it needs…

It's not the artist that holds the "pervue" (note: dictionary) , but the text. You can't interpret a piece of art without referencing that art. And that reference is subject to scrutiny. Sure Shane can be alive or dead at the end of the movie, but can Shane be a horrible tentacle ghost monster from the Nth dimension.

You're veering off into putting words in my mouth a little bit. Arguing on the internet is like arguing art criticism. Everything you say has to in some way be referenced in the thing you're talking about. At no point in any of my debate did I say that the consumption of art is a passive thing. Art is no such thing.…

Just because this might have been inadvertent on Ghibli's part, does not mean that people can't enjoy it as they see fit, to view it in a way that is meaningful to them.

Sure, but there's a line at which you are reading things into the art for your own amusement and not because it's supported by any vestige or piece of the art. You can read a homosexual relationship between Jules and Vincent in the story to Pulp Fiction, but there's nothing substantial to support it, so it's just you…

Art is not finished when the artist says it is. Art must be viewed and interpreted by an audience. Sometimes it's correctly interpreted and sometimes it's not—that's for the audience to decide.

Although to be totally fair, this part:

Why are you apologizing? You're awesome and have awesome science facts. You didn't buzzkill anything, you came along and with snowninja antarctic science skill sliced this apparently somewhat lazy-on-the-details article with a spinning ice buzzsaw made of 100 000 year old glacier.

The actual problem is that this is a statue of Jude Law in a catsuit.

Ultima 4 is one of the few games that linger with me through my whole life. It was a tiny, lifeless, pixellated product of 1980s technology, but the story was incredibly fun. A strange, otherworldly alien exploration where everything you do or have or seek are marked by metaphor, your characters aligned to virtues,…

You know, I was going to make fun of this because basically a hackable, indie game computing platform is called a PC, and already exists.

You'll need to know how to solder, and you'll need to be comfortable opening up your phone and messing around with its insides (eep!) to get it to work.