I think this is exactly why Attack of the Clones is considered worse than Phantom Menace. Phantom Menace is almost adorable in its badness. The mistakes are more bone-headed and obvious. The CGI isn’t even terribly obtrusive besides Jar-Jar (the original Yoda puppet was horrible, though). The Darth Maul fight might…

Yeh it is a relatively new phenomena. I remember at the time, the people who liked it generally liked it because, ‘Well it was a lot better than The Phantom Menace!’

But I think over the years people have actually found more to like in The Phantom Menace. Not because they want to hate on Attack of the Clones, just…

“I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I am physically incapable of chewing bubblegum”

I’m of Chinese ethnicity but was born and bred Australian; I think that allows me a bit of a clearer and up-close view of Aussie racism.

The history is secret as it’s not taught in our schools and many are brought up unaware.

...the then-recently introduced Section 28 by the Conservative government, banning local government councils from promoting homosexuality...

Crafting is the bane of RPGs.

Actually, that’s the successful one.

You're exactly right. The most effective protest would be to let him bomb in silence.

He loves the attention. A silent protest would have been more sufficient. Numbers mean everything to him right now.

This whole two parter was just needlessly complicated. I didn’t feel like it had any stakes, not really. I didn’t care. In the end, it didn’t really matter anyway.

I think many people are reluctant to come out as atheists. The most interesting thing I notice from encountering a lot of theists of many different stripes (I’m a high school teacher in a very diverse neighbourhood of already very diverse Toronto) is how they sort of implicitly see themselves as being together in a…

Did you know that 99% of the population doesn’t believe in the existence of a ferris wheel behind the sun, and it’s a surprisingly diverse group of people?!

To me, true atheism is exactly the same as religion.

It makes sense to have a post on a TECHNOLOGY blog that discusses the percentage of people in the country that don’t appeal to MAGICAL thinking.

Are you 100% confident that the tooth fairy does not exist? Isn’t that as equally ridiculous as being 100% confident that she does exist?

To me, true atheism is exactly the same as religion.

How are arrogant atheists having an impact on the world, beyond annoying you? I promise you arrogant religious zealots are doing much worse.

Given that only 35% of those who actually identify as atheists share those view publically, I expect that are a lot of “closeted” atheists.

Surprisingly, 8% of atheists say they believe in God or a universal spirit.