Yeah, I feel like it shows off the worst aspects of “rugged American individualism”: that it’s you against the world, which positions everyone and everything as an obstacle or enemy and thus justifies your callous, unfeeling, even aggressive antagonism towards everyone. We live in a world where pretty much the…

Yeah, agreed. I got maybe halfway through the game and realized that the game just wasn’t fun, I was only compelled to slog through it for the story, so I ended up watching the rest on other people’s playthroughs online. That ending really is horrible. Even if you give ND the benefit of the doubt that they’re not…

Yeah, while I didn’t get into all the extra stuff, I was (and still am) a huge fan of the original FF7. I even enjoyed Dirge, while acknowledging all of its new characters were horrible. I also played KH 1 and 2, as well as whichever one was a horrible GBA game with limited cards to use as attacks, but hadn’t dug into…

Oh man, I loved Folklore, that game was great. The art style was so vibrant and unique. I still remember twisting the controller around like a madman to pull ghosts out of monsters.

The problem with a lot of current AI is that it’s generally fed a ton of data to train on, which means it’s highly susceptible to the selection of that data, which is generally done by people, who can be be racist by action or omission.

Even as a kid growing up in the middle of nowhere, COPS seemed pretty gross. The glorification of police officers who seemed either robotic or only capable of negative emotions, and making civilians look like monsters or freaks - it was a particularly grim sideshow, post-apocalyptic in tone but current in setting. As…

Gingrich is also responsible for much of the current animosity between the political parties and the Republicans’ childish, insulting behavior for decades, behaved horribly to his own family, got booted out for multiple ethics violations, and is in general an opportunistic, manipulative, evil liar.

Yeah, so many seem to think free speech means freedom from the consequences they don’t like (that they can loudly say any stupid thing but no one’s allowed to react to it) but also that it only applies to them (that while they are allowed to say anything they want, criticism of what they said somehow doesn’t share the…

Also, he’s doing that thing, that Trump thing, of accusing someone else of being what he is; he, a venture capitalist called an activist “elite”. I don’t know if there’s a term for doing that, or if there isn’t, what it should be called. It’s worse than hypocrisy, it’s worse than projecting, because there’s an element…

I’ve been a massive Street Fighter (and fighting games in general) fan - I even paid real money for Capcom Fighting Evolution (just the laziest game ever) - but I am really looking forward to V being done. It was unimpressive from day one, and I’m not one of those people that cared about it not having an arcade mode: t…

To reduce the complexities of a suicidal person’s mental state to “she was dumb” says a lot of really bad things about you. It suggests a much lower level of intelligence, morality, and compassion in you than was shown by her.

Because most games are made in 3D, and it is technically impossible to accurately recreate a 3D image from a 2D one. The concept art is a 2D image strategically composed to elicit the maximum reaction from that image alone. While the idea is to cause you to imagine a world with tremendous, dynamic possibility, it…

Well from what I can tell that was the primary reason Rose was hired in the first place. I’ve seen a lot of her work, and I haven’t ever seen anything that could be called remarkable acting. This show has been middling at best for me, and that’s largely due to her wooden presence. I wonder if it’s too late for acting…

In retrospect, I think this is why they played up Barney’s douchbaggery to such ridiculous levels - to make Ted look normal in contrast. They needed to have a cartoon manchild be an extreme sexual clown to make Ted’s dating behavior not seem as bad, which in isolation looks rather sketchy.

None of them. She is great, but the character barely exists. She’s just there to keep Ted from moving away, give him the kids Robin didn’t want, then die off so Ted is free to fall back into a bad relationship he can’t be convinced is a bad idea.

I agree with most of what you’re saying, but in regards to...

Yeah, I started reading X-Men around the time X-Force started, so initially I knew of Cable as the character that came in at the tail end of New Mutants to turn it into X-Force, and the references I saw to New Mutants didn’t make it seem that interesting. Then years later I took an actual look and came to…

Please explain how they are furloughed due to economic mismanagement by the government. Many medical professionals the whole world over are not working right now due to the coronavirus necessitating so. It really seems like a social well-being action more than anything else. For example, many dentists are operating in…

Please explain how they are furloughed due to economic mismanagement by the government. Many medical professionals…

The interesting part about that is that many US “Christians” believe in Revelations in terms of those countries, but seem completely oblivious to the fact that the US is not represented. Apocalyptic events involving world superpowers yet not the US? It’s either severely weakened or gone.

Using insults, goading, and name-calling just make you look emotional, irrational, and hateful. They hurt whatever your position is.

Using insults, goading, and name-calling just make you look emotional, irrational, and hateful. They hurt whatever…