I’m pretty blown away by how stupid the characters were in this episode.

This will forever be my main piece of evidence for why the new trilogy is a mess. There was no clear view, no planned story arc, for the entirety of it for any of its characters. It’s been a slapdash throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks process of film making and story crafting with a dash of dick measuring…

I couldn’t disagree more with this. Max joins them in trick-or-treating, because even though she has absorbed Billy’s personality a bit, she wants friends. Her blunt refusal to say something, and then jumping into the group is her way of trying to cope with it, of being involved and not saying she is a part of the…

Microtransactions don’t bother me. Cosmetic items don’t bother me. What bothers me is tying game extras to randomized systems that then give you the option to pay for them. That’s gambling and it’s bullshit, no matter who’s doing it.

This article also doesn’t do a thing to explain it’s titular question of why. The rationale given could apply to any super power practically.

Saying Storm is a lightning based superhero is like saying Thor is. Sure he can ALSO do that and she can ALSO do that but their power set is so much more than just lightning. It’s selling her short.

Couldn’t you procedurally generate the stories? That way you could have hundreds of stories each one completely unique.

Name calling is a great way to make people agree with your point of view. That being said, Snyder is all flair and not substance. He doesn’t understand that not every scene needs a sepia filter and that not every movie needs to exist in his grimdark fantasy land. A good director can work with what he’s given and isn’t…

But you can bet your ass there would be an outcry like none other if there was an all-men showing of a movie. Some people’s view of “equality” is more along the lines of “hah! Now we get our revenge!”.

It was absolutely an attempted suicide. This is the only write up I’ve seen that somehow missed that glaringly obvious point. It’s confirmed by Gaiman, too, if for some reason people needed that.

I assumed the exact same thing with Laura and the bugspray. Her life was so mundane and empty that she nearly killed herself. Then Shadow entered her life and made it exciting... for a bit. Then she convinced him to rob the casino to make it more exciting... for a bit. Then she was with Robbie... for a bit. When that…

I also assumed that the hot tub was a half-hearted suicide attempt.

I was pretty sure that when Laura got in the hot tub with the Git Gone, she was attempting suicide. Is that wrong? I took the recurring fly to be her depression, numbness, and suicidality. I read the final scene with flypaper in essentially the same way, though—death has reinvigorated Laura and while she didn’t love…

I was actually following this on the Steam forum for Automata last night (and part of this morning; there are a couple of people who got into it with Kaldaien that are still crowing about his ban/soothing their individually savaged egos--Kaldaien can field a pretty scorching argument when the mood strikes), and was…

It does pay...in spades. Everyone should strive for excellence, that’s not a “white” value it’s a human value. Speaking properly without give-away intonations, expressions and speech patterns which allow people to automatically discriminate against you before they even see you is important. It will certainly get you…

So I guess what you’re saying is that her future was originally... nebulous?

This takes me back. I remember the day they released this patch, it was golden. I was an early member of the ROMhacking scene. I tried my hand at translation which I sucked at but I also had a Super WildCard DX2, a cart copier that few in the west had and thus was able to create ROM images of a lot of titles. In those…

How about earning some audience respect by not acting like a bunch of 12 year olds who’ve just discovered expletives. Serious people don’t curse. So, duck you, millennial ignoramuses.