So many possible stories. You know how after your dad dies, you start hearing stories about how he did this or that crazy thing in his youth? Well, with my dad, it’s sort of like that, only imagine that my dad was Batman, and you have the basic idea. His formal role was . . . ambiguous, but he was basically a “go get…

There was the animated short “Mr. Incredible and Pals” as a dvd feature, but it was more a parody of 60s superhero cartoons with commentary by the actual Mr. Incredible and Frozone.

It’s a classic example of truthiness, as run through the conservative belief filter. Truthiness, for those who were young enough to still be pre-political in 2005, is “the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to…

I’m reminded of a comedy bit SFDebris did when he reviewed Justice League Unlimited, where he noted that every superhero has their own way of opening a locked door that tells you about their personality. Superman will bust down the door to demonstrate his strength. Batman will cleverly pick the lock or deduce the key…

Eh, I think it’s actually confusion about the philosophical idea at play. The theme that Brad Bird recurrently comes back to is known as “alienation”.

I’d add John Ford and Sergio Leone to that list, but everyone on that list deserves to be there.

I agree that it isn’t particularly fair; Bob, being blessed with standard Brick superpowers (super strength, nigh-invulnerability, large size) typically handles things directly and straightforwardly. Helen, whose powers are literally in her flexibility and adaptability to changing circumstances, is pretty inevitably…

Yeah, Syndrome is a fantastic villain, one of the best that Disney/Pixar has ever created. Dude combines both layers that you can empathize with, with being completely vile. It’s a rare villain that gets a full-on Indiana Jones death, and I’m like “Yep, got what he deserved”. But Syndrome makes that list handily.

I’ve actually asked that very question on the Kotaku boards. The uniform answer was to play RDR first, then RDR2 second. Everyone said (without spoiling anything, for which I am grateful) that part of the beauty of the story of the second game was the sense of inevitability.

Respectfully, you’re missing a rather key component in your assessment of Ms. Lindsay’s point: racism in the 1960's and 70's was both defined as absolutely un-American, but also defined upwards to apply to fewer acts, to the point that today, many people functionally define racism as “things that Bull Connor or the…

Let’s also recall that Vanessa Hudgens got hit hard with the “let’s blame the woman who takes naked pictures of herself, rather than the criminal that hacks her phone for those pictures, while we all gawk at her exposed body” stick about a year or two before the conversation started to turn about maybe not blaming the…

I have dodged spoilers. I have more or less completely played through both Skyrim and Witcher 3. I have free time. I have both games, and no more excuses:

Maybe I’m cynical, but I have trouble believing that we, as a society, can function without any sort of policing whatsoever.

I was going to go with “don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out”, but on reflection, I think your choice of words was the superior diplomatic option, insofar as it was the less diplomatic option.

Wait, we’re surprised by this? This precedes Trump in the Republican Party, and by this point is pretty much par for the course. Let’s recall that the phrase “enhanced” or “sharpened interrogation” is literally the word-for-word translation of the German euphamism that the Gestapo used on their prisoners:

Eh, sort of. As a Niners’ fan who was really invested during the Harbaugh years, I can say with confidence that Kaepernick was being actively screwed by the front office during those seasons. Essentially, it is true that Kaepernick had a bad case of the yips in those years. But those yips were caused by a front office…

Er, I think you missed the joke there. He was referring to the fact that by about Season 6 or 7 at the latest, geography no longer mattered. The Vale could show up unannounced at Winterfell to save the day, despite the fact that it was an established plot point that the North could not be invaded by land. Gendry could…

Socialism for her means “money taken from white people, and given to black people”.

Sir, this is an Arby’s.

Yeah, having not played The Last of Us, but having played games from the Mega Man era to just now finishing up Witcher 3, the key in most of these situations is to realize the problem is rarely “I’m bad at games”, so much as “there’s a key to winning this fight that I’m either not getting, or don’t have”.