Only if the person making the statement can actually tell the difference.

That’s exactly the tactic to use. Whether or not the fetus is a person or not is a losing strategy, because you’ll never ever convince some people it’s not. The real issue is that the woman is a person, and she has the right to bodily autonomy. Arguing that the rights of the fetus supercede hers is literally arguing…

It never occurred to me until I started working in restaurants in my early 20s, and noticed that the cooks use tongs for everything. Before that, I used them the way my mom did - for picking larger items off a grill or out of boiling water, and nothing else.

Bethesda expects you to explore the world for its own sake, not to pick up the achievement for collecting 120 little widgets floating around somewhere. That holds massive, intense appeal for some gamers (like myself), which is why people obsessively play them for thousands of hours, even after the next one in the…

Perhaps. My concern with e.g. Diablo III is that so much of the appeal of the game is in the menu-driven stuff, and if you automate it all away all you’re left with is a repetitive action brawler that I suspect would run out of steam awfully quickly.

I think the menu thing was what caused my ex-wife to bounce of Diablo III for PS4. I bought it in the hopes of finding something we could play together, and we had fun enough when we were actually playing, but the fun came to a screeching halt every time we had to level up or use the inventory. It’s one of those…

Only Rockstar would have taken Red Dead Revolver, which was an extremely mediocre game, and make Red Dead Redemption out of it. It’s one of the least likely successful franchises in video game history.

Obviously it’s an entirely new reboot. The previous versions are best forgotten.

This is why the FF needs to be in the MCU and Spidey movies ASAP. Spidey has such a complex, interesting, and fun relationship with the FF, especially Reed and Johnny.

So, I agree that 300 is meat-headed. But is there anyone in the world who sees it as an attempt to be even remotely historically accurate?

By far the largest barrier to global cooperation is the United States’ insistence on the primacy of its own immediate geopolitical goals over the welfare of the the rest of the planet (and of the majority of its own citizens). It’s literally impossible to have meaningful global cooperation when the wealthiest and most…

There is barely any revenue for them in the Canadian ads. The reason Canadians complained about them is that they’re the same old ads as usual. And if you watch the Canadian broadcast, you’ll get them. The issue is the bullshit CRTC thing that forces cable providers to switch over to a Canadian broadcaster if they’re…

It’s a term of respect, not a signifier of age. All these people who don’t like being called “sir” or “ma’am” just seem immature or insecure. Do these people not think they’re deserving of respect?

Exactly. It’s an example of a job that harassers can still get. If it’s not good enough by their standards, that's their problem.

FP Santangelo is hilarious.

When I was a kid playing sword fighting with my friends and brothers I thought the whole point was to just knock the swords together until one of you dropped it, not to aim for and kill or maim your opponent. Thanks, movies.

Grade 4, 1988. I’d been boyfriend and girlfriend with a girl from school for a few weeks at least (time moved more slowly then, no idea how long in reality). Mostly this meant sitting together at recess and Sunday school, passing notes. We might have kissed once. Anyway, one day at recess she sends her two best…

Fan reactions to the last four Star Wars movies basically prove your point. Fandoms are toxic, and if Netflix has any idea what they’re doing they will steer hard away from anything resembling fan service.

You seem like a very emotionally healthy person with many good and well-considered opinions.

That word is only phonetically similar to the n-word. Etymologically they’re not related at all.