Yeah but Ron Perlman. And Norman Reedus gets exploded. And that shot where they cut a vampire's head in half and the eye is still moving around and blinking on the other chubk of head.

Oh god yes, that man actually made a Fantastic 4 movie with believable character dynamics and a good Dr. Doom.

That doesn't really avoid making half the film devoted to a goddamn horse-racing subplot, though. They could always imitate Moore in that regard.

No worries— the genre lines are always pretty wobbly, and I tend to take the broadest view possible of genre classification. It always seems preferable to being one of the nerds who argue about whether Star Wars is "really" sci fi.

It's sad, but that's still a marked improvement. If that 4% hadn't voted for him, he would have lost.

In the workplace, if it's unwanted, absolutely yes— and a supervisor asking to hug you can be seen as pressuring you for physical contact. Literally the first subject my company's sexual harassment training videos hit is "never hug any coworker ever."

I actually really liked those comments and dig it when you explain what kind of things are going on there— as much as we talk about your country in America, so few of us ever hear from any actual Russians on the matter (Hell, I minored in History with a focus on Soviet history in college, and I still talked to three…

Eh, pretty much all the hostile races were Soviet analogies depending on the episode, though the Klingons got it the most (see Undiscovered Country, which explicitly quotes Adlai Stevenson addressing the Russian Ambassador to the UN), but I think pretty much any episode from the classic series about how two sides are…

Yes, they're fictitious. They're a fictitious organization of fascists that worked with the Nazis and killed Jews, though— why would you want to wear their logo of a fictional hate group?

Comic book Nazis still did the Holocaust and advanced a philosophy of racial hatred. Wearing the logo of comic book Nazis and fascists is still tasteless, because they're still Nazis with Nazi ideology.

Hydra's not real, but the actual atrocities of Nazism were, and Hydra endorsed them. Aushwitz and Dachau exist in the Marvel universe and ours, and in one universe, Hydra facilitated their existence. It's a logo that, in its original context, is irrevocably tied to white supremacy and hatred— it's the logo of a…

They're not based on more advanced science, but it's clear that the book is set sometime in the future of when it was written— it imagines an acceleration of conflicts contemporary to its writing (and a totally electronic cashless society, to the point that women's ownership of property can be undone entirely by…

That's not the same thing. It's one thing to have characters in the books who are allied with Nazis. It's another thing to have real people in real life dressing up as allies of Nazis. In-universe, Hydra facilitated the Holocaust and are allied and associated with Nazism— you don't get to use the "they're just cartoon…

I don't think most people would take it as intentionally supporting Nazism, but the evil organization is Nazi-affiliated and their most famous member is Red Skull, who's usually portrayed as an overt Nazi. There's a difference between dressing up as ordinary villains and dressing up as ones who are directly connected…

Oh, Howard— although if O'Brien wants to write some sword and sorcery adventures, I'll give me a shot.

Well, by Coetzee— Lurie is the protagonist's name, I think? But yes, and it was. I was pretty gutted after all three and binged some Conan stories to recover.

Thank you. Cheap turntables are hot garbage, and everyone should know. If you're going to get into a goofy, unnecessary, money-eating hobby, spend the money to get something actually nice.

Fun story: I first read this book back to back with Beloved and Disgrace. That was a brutal fuckin week that definitely made me a better person.

That's less applicable when it's a story about a person being subjugated specifically because she's a woman and whose gender is the driving force of the story's plot.

Yes, Atwood does, and it's frustrating— it's one of the best science fiction books of the 20th century, and includes sci fi elements (cashless society, environmental collapse, sterility plague, etc), but she insists on a very narrow definition of the term. It's a shame, because more authors like Atwood identifying as…