I don't think Gone Home is a game. That's not because it makes me uncomfortable or because I think it's bad per sae, but because it's not really a game. It's a piece of IF, and IF is often classified in terms of gaminess (puzzles, systemized design, etc). Barring the speed-runs people have done, there's no gaminess to…

It's basically one of the single best (and arguably one of the most important) television shows of all time.

Yeah, I do fear people I respect and I do fear tools that I respect. To me that seems reasonable. Fear changes my behavior in a way that makes it more conscious of the power held by individuals or the power that objects can confer on individuals.

I disagree. I think that fear is part of respect. Respect comes from fear in a very primal way, especially when it comes to something like a gun. It's reasonable, even rational to be afraid and to include it in your calculus.

If you don't fear firearms, you have no business owning or shooting one.

So what? You'd deny yourself Nathan Barley?

The optimal beard is actually extremely short. But even that's subject to the same effect vs. Clean Shaven faces. It's weird!

I don't mean to be a dick but you shouldn't wear a beard that long. It makes you look like a fucking Christmas Elf. You have some unfortunate ears.

There's actually a point of beard equilibrium. According to No Such Thing as a Fish, the factual comedy podcast done by the research team behind QI, the attractiveness of beards grows steadily until they reach a certain percentage (forget what it is, but it's less than half the population), at which point the…

Feige said that we're going to start seeing inhuman stuff really soon, and it's been laid on pretty thick in AoS so far what with Mary -Sue Poots and Papa Poots having a positive affinity for Kree technology.

During Doctor Who Extra, Moffat basically said that he envisions her as being like Ainley in the eighties. Just turning up and rolling her eyes at the question of how she survived.

There is no real afterlife in Moffat's Who. During the Confidental for Forest of the Dead he said that the kind of pseudo-life that River-and-Pals get is the closest there is in stuff that goes out under his masthead.

If they didn't reuse models it would've been hugely detrimental to the game itself. Part of what makes the game work (and what I think you were getting at when you called it a surreal fever dream) is that it's a carnivalesque play on Ocarina of Time. The carnivalesque requires shifts in identity, and you can't really…

What are you saying, exactly? That you think the universe is structured based on our ideas about value? Because that seems to be what you're saying.

If you wanna be really dickish about it... You could look at Iron Giant. Bird's work, a lot of it anyway, seems to be informed by the fact that he made a brilliant fucking film and then it got ruined by a bunch of limp dick corporate fuckwits and then all of a sudden the whole industry changed because all these new…

Probably not, because Boulet doesn't have autism.

Something something cultural marxism something something

I think the more interesting point raised by Boulet's comic is the fundamentally regressive politics of Harry Potter. Harry Potter is like... super right wing and actually quasi-fascist in its fetishization of the hyper-hierarchical past.

Basically the books ended with none of the overall mysteries getting solved. The stories that did get resolved were things that were only vaguely hinted at. The idea, I think, was that instead of delivering on the overall metaplot about the Volunteer Fire Department and secret wars between secret societies, we just…

Yeah. Archie Comics got CRAZY GOOD all of a sudden.