Also, it's good with the press.

Thank you, though I think any of his short stories, like "Burning Chrome", or "Johnny Mnemonic", would also count. They're like Tolkien's works, in that a whole generation didn't want to just read them, they wanted to write them, draw them, and live in them.

William Gibson did it with Neuromancer. Science fiction film, gaming and lit for the next two decades could be boiled down to people trying to capture the feel of that book.

Humans didn't descend from apes. We are apes. We just lost a lot of body hair and found very complex ways to murder each other and share images of cats and/or sexual acts.

I don't have an intense hate for Spurs the way I do for, say, Chelsea or United. But the Spurs have never threatened my favorite team, so.

One important thing that really makes Millennials different, is their access to communications with people and information from all over the world. I don't think Millennials are going to blindly follow orders like past generations. They are more likely to want to know who and why they are fighting someone then in the…

"And to worsen the regionalism, the organization blatantly pandered to North Carolina's mouth-breathing, paint-huffing, evolution-denying idiot sister state of South Carolina. "

I'm in the exact same boat. From what I understand, the manga was not complete at the time of the film... and was not finished for another decade

This is the only possible defense of the original commenters comment. I think the movie version of Nausicca is incredible, and Mononoke and Laputa are the only other two that I can think of that I would put up there with it. But none of them compare to the masterpiece that is the manga. One of my favorite…

Funny, I had exactly the opposite reaction. I had heard about Akira for so long I jumped to buy the Special Edition DVD when it came out and ran home to watch it.

How the fuck is a regional language difference exceptionalism? Is the fact that Britain calls fries "chips" British Exceptionalism? No, it's a fucking idiosyncrasy of language. Put your 7th grade philosophy certificate away and get over yourself.

God, the pinewood derby cars. Growing up in metro Detroit, there were lots of kids whose dads worked for the auto companies. Not only did they build immaculate cars, they put them in wind tunnels and who knows what else. I made mine by myself. It looked like shit and performed like shit. But at least it was mine.

Sorry but you're not going to find me in agreement with your assessment about Tomino glorifying war. I respect that you believe that the OVAs are on par with Tomino's main series but 0079, Victory and Zeta are the complete opposite of war glorification in my opinion.

Poldi is adorable. Fact.

Sometimes drastic changes in the lead characters can be for the better...

Right? I love playing on my Wii U and will always spend more to buy something on it: it inspires me to WANT to play games, something my PC only does my having REALLY cheap games, and that's it. The Wii U is a system I WANT to play, and more than any other I've ever owned. It's just too damn fun, and the first party…

I eventually figured out for myself that, in general, and if forced to pick, I'll always want my games to put the most thought and effort into being a game first and foremost. Crap like Assassin's Creed seem to revel in being a disconnected mess full of garbage that tries to be "adult" and "gritty" and has no real…

No Guild?

Plot twist : they added this Pac-man

Athletes will simply go where the money is, and right now, that's not in MLS. MLS as a league, has to increase it's players salaries, but that requires moving away from the mid-market single entity structure it currently operates under.