I stopped playing SC ages ago because I got sick of its shit too. Especially when developers try to bullshit us that huge boob jiggle and gyrating on screen with moaning sounds makes the female characters “powerful”. I agree with you, the game design feels antiquated, and the excuses from the devs even more so. Thanks…

It had so much potential! The main characters were emotionally fleshed out, the story was fairly focused, the mission felt personal. But the execution... sigh. All I can see is what it could have been. The choppy ending, the lack of development of the only influential female character, the overall unfinished feeling…

Sure. But it’s also a reclaimed term by the community it was used to describe and alienate. The way “queer” was adopted by LGBTQ, and so on. In my opinion, that means it’s theirs to determine what happens to it now. Including putting it on their businesses as a catch-all term.

Here you go. “Ethnic” has a long history of meaning “them, not us.” Unfortunately in American society that falls heavily on racial lines, coming into its current meaning in the 1960's, the “them” becoming people of color and especially people of African descent. You can’t magic away cultural meaning and historical use…

In the context of American society, no. “Ethnic” as an adjective is almost exclusively used to refer to minorities, especially as a synonym for black people. Norwegians are not a part of that group any more than my ethnicity (white quebeçoise) and our general features are considered “ethnic.”

Ooo shit, that makes their relationship way more interesting, actually.

Yeah, realized that too late. I wrote this around the time the Jones/Moore race was in full swing, so probably just brain farted.

Especially since up until that point, Kafka was just a laughing stock. A psychopathic, goofy and almost idiotic villain who took pleasure just in causing destruction, and was mostly comic relief. It was a shock that he ends up the Big Bad.

The first time I played FF6, I thought I had done something wrong after the floating continent. Clearly I had triggered a bad endgame scene? Was I supposed to go left instead of right? Why did I lose? The world is exploding!!

I got the Witcher 3 for Christmas and remembered your article about being a Bad Dad. Just reread it. I’m trying to go through the game with as few spoilers as possible, but I thank you for saving me from accidental child negiligence. I haven’t gotten to that part yet, but I’m pretty sure I would make similar well…

It’s hard to say, in the legal sense. Murder requires proven (beyond reasonable doubt) intent to kill. A defendant’s case *could* make the argument that the perpetrator meant to harass or injure via police force, but not kill. I definitely think they could nail him on manslaughter or perhaps conspiracy to murder,…

Yeah, I see what you’re saying. But for me, Luke was always a darker figure who lost his naïveté as he progressed through the original trilogy. I think you’re right that Luke believed that there was good in his father/Vader, but Luke also almost died for it, and so did many of his friends, and even then his father…

I don’t know, it worked for me.

I have a whole bunch of hipster nerds in my feed ranking this as worse than some of the prequels. What even... what!

I actually thought this was in keeping with his character. Luke has always struggled with the Dark Side *and* been impulsive to the point of recklessness, and he’s seen some terrible, terrible shit in his life. It made sense to me that he would have a passing moment of impulse, which he conquered as he always does,…

I agree, I was a bit after you (watched the movies in the 90's on tape, on repeat, before the new prequels came out), and I thought this was totally in keeping with Luke’s character. Luke has always struggled with the dark side — and won over it — and also always been a bit impetuous and impulsive. But in the end, he…

I’ve been watching Star Wars since a time when my dad had to read the alien subtitles to me, because I was too young to read. I loved it. I thought it was refreshing that Rey’s parents are no one, and it’s more important that their absence haunts her than who they were. I was hoping that Rey wouldn’t be the secret…

I wonder if no one has tried it before, so my guess was it was a last ditch effort to see if it would do something? Obviously her just sitting there is useless, her plan failed thanks to some goobs, so to me it seemed like, Holdo was so reckless and desperate that she tried something where no one knew what would…

Also, don’t assume that good looks is a free pass. Many of us can tell when a guy has a shit personality regardless of what his face looks like, and it’s a complete turn off.

Have you been listening to the “Heaven’s Gate” podcast too? Great production.