You really have to play MGS 3 before MGS 4, because without the Metal Gear games, it’s the only big reference you’ll have for so many of the characters. Unlike some prequels, it’s best played in release order.

For better or worse, reminds me of Erasmus. Yeah, the one from the Brian Herbet Dune prequels.

You can also get shipments of Ballistic Weave from the trader at Vault 81, for what it’s worth.

I see where you’re coming from. Personally, right now, I think the excitement of him not just making it Tatooine mostly overcomes the “oh great, it’s a sand planet” feeling. Hopefully that remains true after Episode VIII. Much like Star Trek 2009, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to rationally judge Episode VII…

Kind of? I think his involvement has varied, sometimes it's just been her Hydra scientist parents.

And it’s pretty much always been the bane of them. Even in Pen & Paper (or, alternatively, especially in Pen and Paper).

I dunno, there’s probably a bunch of annoying paint problems you have to worry about that’ll be your primary focus. You probably can’t just Bob Ross it and turn mistakes into little happy trees.

It’s roughly the legal standard too, there’s just a bunch of criteria around proving how it was used. That’s how they won their lawsuit.

That’s pretty much exactly the standard. If someone says that the word you were describing them with is a slur, and offensive, (or in this case, a rather large and expansive group of someones) it’s really not anyone else’s place to say that it isn’t. The entire point of slurs is that they’re used by the majority to…

You don’t understand my point: AIM was active circa the 1970s, and they very definitely considered shit like that derogatory. Just because it was a marginalized minority that was struggling for recognition back then doesn’t mean the word wasn’t offensive.

The American Indian Movement would definitely have disagreed with you.

Yeah, they have interesting potential for land management in very remote areas. Wildland firefighting is probably going to start getting their hands on them before too long.

Definitely an interesting piece. Watch really blows me away is this though:

I know, it’d just be interesting to play with the assumed detachment and have her actually care about people a little when they start dying all over. Like, she reads the personnel files and has good recall of them, but up until now it was just business.

Depending on the weight of the sword, it might not even cause much bruising.

Which is why they didn’t tell anyone they ever existed. There definitely exist parents who would freak out if they found out that that innocent-enough looking game they let their kid talk them into buying turned out to have sexy costumes for the characters. I’d guess that’s why they got pulled while Bayonetta can…

I guess I’ll just have to disagree with you that the series is at its best when it’s an uncomplicated struggle between good and evil. Rather, I find the best parts are when it lets some more of the samurai film show through and people can be both and neither.

You say that Darth Vader is presented as a savior, but I’d…

So what’s the alternative? How do you follow up the cliffhanger in ESB with something other than the corruption-redemption plot that was used? It may be old hat, but there’s a reason that it echoes throughout literature.

In favor of what? Mindless, uncomplicated action? I’m honestly not sure what replaces the redemption/heroic sacrifice plot that would make it better. They’ve already established that Vader is Luke’s father, as well as that he used to be a Jedi, implying a corruption plot. It’s a pretty strong trope throughout the…

Wearing the wrong size of boots is almost as bad an idea as wearing the heels though.

In the end, it goes back to the reason the actor chose to go with the heels: the character just wouldn’t do that.

Or, in a different movie with time to rewrite things, it would have been a character-building moment where she has to…