Years ago someone was sharing a picture online of Hitler holding hands with a kid, and people were upset. Why try to humanize Hitler of all people? But that was the point, to humanize him: not in order to sympathize with him or get people on his side, but to show that he wasn’t a demon, not a mythical monster or…

Yeah, that’s the case for pretty much everybody. Human beings like to reduce things to a single metric, but no one is actually 100% good or 100% bad. It’s weird to think about, but it’s entirely possible for someone to have a monumentally positive effect in one space but have a net negative effect overall. There are…

Ha yeah, my reaction to people talking about this who don’t know his work is essentially that monkey puppet meme. It’d be like if someone heard a famous movie director they didn’t know died so they watch one of his movies and it turns out to be a torture porn horror movie more brutal than anything they’ve ever seen.

Well no one ACTUALLY cared about ethics in game journalism. It was just an excuse smug assholes tried to hide behind even as it made them look painfully stupid.

Actually, it came out awhile back from insiders that Trump hates his supporters, that he saw them as the lowest-value people and both made fun of them and complained that they were all he could get. He loves that he can scam stupid people, but he hates those people and wishes he could scam higher-level people.

Ha, nice, but that’s the pitcher screwing up and losing. Here the Balrog player was going for a throw, and his opponent was correct in “tech”-ing - defending against a throw - but the Balrog player made a mistake and did a special move instead of a throw, which accidentally beat the tech. The opponent correctly…

Ha, I was thinking of the analogy of a pitcher throwing a curve ball and the batter trying to hit straight but his grip slips and he accidentally hits the curve ball for a home run.

Ha jeez. I am super curious about the design meetings for that game. Its problems aren’t emergent or happenstance, they are fundamental, explicit decisions they made.

I haven’t played it but watched a few reviews and it really does seem terrible. While there are a lot of costumes, each only has a single skill, and that’s all you can do - including jumping. So to actually jump you need one of a few specific costumes, which means while you’re wearing it you can’t do anything else.…

It kind of seems like you’re judging the final entirely on its ability to surprise you. I know that’s an arms race between a lot of shows, which one can have the biggest twist at the end, but here we got a great story executed really well. The extended fight scene was less about awesome fighting than it was about…

Huge difference between the two shows. I think a big part of IASIP’s appeal is the constant reinforcement of reasonable consequences - all of the main characters are abjectly horrible people, but their lives are also consequently abjectly horrible. The characters may be too stupid and ego-maniacal to see their…

I’ve read people online complaining about “cancel culture”, and so far every argument I’ve seen against “cancel culture” has been terrible, and mostly just highlighted flaws in those making the arguments. However, having read what Clark said in the NME piece, I think she touches on a valid point. She says, regarding…

It’s funny, the first episode of BSG I ever saw was the last episode, which of course made no sense to me. So years later I tried watching it from the beginning, only to give up in the first season once they reached the “robots are trying to kill all of humanity to force God out of hiding” nonsense, as that seemed…

Also, and this could be just me, but his movies make me think he has severe depression. The pervasive gloom and sense that everything is a excessive amount of soulless work, along with the few attempts at expressions of joy seeming far more manically performative than genuine, make me think his dopamine receptors are…

That’s the first thing I’ve ever seen her be funny in. Makes me wonder how much her years of absolute suckitude since are the fault of her husband.

Eh, that’s problematic as people have been using that to be homophobic since she came out. Even if the person using it intends to only refer to her treatment of employees, there are bad, dumb people out there who will use it as an excuse to strengthen their illegitimate connection between her sexuality and poor…

Oh here’s my theory: before the quarantine, viewers of these shows just had them on in the background as they did other stuff. But during the quarantine, they were spending less time working or commuting so they had more time and opportunity to sit down and actually pay attention to these shows, and their response was…

It’s funny, before all the stuff about Whedon came out, I tried rewatching Buffy, having loved it when it first ran and not having seen it in years. But I didn’t get very far, and it was almost entirely due to Xander - the character seems to be written as a slow-burn villain, but without the show realizing that’s what…

They were exploring her memory. Human memory is terribly inaccurate, and tends to change over time. Each time you remember something you’re remembering your last remembrance more than the original event or thought.

Ohhh that’s good, yeah everyone who got snapped away then back was hit with the combined force of all the infinity stones. Tons of potential there.