So this one time I went away for two months and left my window open and when i got back I didn't really notice anything for a day or two until I noticed that there was this big paper hornet nest in my bedroom window built between the window and the screen and it was about the size of a basketball and when I moved the…

Old post, I know, but top down does literally play differently. It's not a matter of technology. It's the fact that games that have a lower level perspective like The Witcher, or Mass Effect, or pretty much any jRPG, tend to be really simplistic and shallow when it comes to combat.

Anyone who says that science fiction is too pessimistic is a moron, and here's why:

Huh. Looks kinda Disney.

Show's great. It's actually one of the best sitcoms in recent memory in terms of how fast it got ahold of its characters and their dynamics.

Lain isn't super original in terms of its SF ideas. But the way the city is depicted in it is interesting. Same goes for GiTS. I think nerds are overprotective.

Naoki Urusawa's 20th Century Boys seems pretty original? The idea is that this working class shop keeper starts noticing similarities between events in the news and stories and games that he and his friends did together as kids, only to discover that a sinister cult leader is trying to take over the world with a fake…

Monster's in development at HBO. The main holdup is that Del Toro is slated to direct and he's got a million projects on the go.

Because to some extent, Lex Luthor is right. Superman is a dangerous alien who insidiously hid amongst humanity for years. He's also kind of out of touch with humanity and reality.

If machines were as good as people, the flesh fair would not happen. They don't. That's basically all there is to say on the matter.

But the whole point of the flesh fair is that machines are less than human, and David's acceptance of a less-than-human simulacrum created by robots who are still in awe of humanity carries that forward. David might be the most advanced robot, but he's forever an insufficient child. Even other children, like his…

But the humans in the film are perpetually unsatisfied with the less-than-human machines. That's why the flesh fair is culturally accessible. That's why he's disposable in the face of his "brother". That's what differentiates them. Even Gigolo Joe is drawn in by childish nonsense bullshit because robots are dumber…

No, because it's also based on the Blue Fairy and the recurring theme of David's Naivete in the face of horror, such as when he's taken to the flesh fair. Yeah he gets what he wants, but it only satisfies him because he's less than human.

Because mine is supported by the thematic thrust of the film? It's a false happy ending. You're assuming that the movie abruptly turned about-face, while I'm looking at the fact that it followed David's nonsensical childish fairy-tale beliefs in instances such as the blue-fairy scene. Yours just seems to be based on…

Uh, I don't really get your point of view. I'm pointing at specific things, and you're not, so it's kind of hard to argue with your point. If you've actually say something concrete it'd help, but otherwise it just seems like you're really set in your interpretation and are intent on tuning anything else out.

How is it not supported by the product? The future-robots give David a fake mom. The fake mom and David relive traumatic moments from David's relationship with his mom, only revised to no longer be traumatic. The haircut for instance. Then she dies and David lays next to her dead body.

You can skip it as long as you get the gist: Morty fights off a rapist, it's traumatic, and Rick makes a point of validating Morty and his beliefs for the rest of the story in an attempt to help him retain his autonomy. In terms of their character arcs, it basically means that Morty has realized that Rick's right: the…

It was not a happy ending. It was very fucked up and was written to underscore David's inability to be a human. The future robots fix him up with a revisionist copy of his "mother". She's not the real thing. She's a comforting illusion and their day together involves revising all the traumatic and fucked up things…

I dunno, I think Letterman's post-9/11 episode was more culturally important than what Colbert's doing. He's just preaching to the choir. He's said nothing more politically radical than Letterman has, and out of character he parrots old establishment liberal lines like Nixon being "Fairly liberal".

Those are all Sim City 2000 assets, and the fact that the power lines are flashing the unpowered alert symbol suggests to me that it's in game?