Recent content by abell

Sometimes a cigar's just a cigar, Bob. Or, to put it another way, Occam's Razor tells us that it's far more likely that the post war generation got married and had a bunch of kids because they'd just been through a depression and a pretty miserable war and wanted to enjoy themselves, than some...

Heh, you know I had a really fun time with Legend of Korra and the Equalists. Huh, some people might be pissed that they live with a bunch superpowered assholes who can terrorize them however they want? That seems reasonable, I'm pro chi blocking/zappy hands. Wait, now they want to depower...

Yea, I guess I defriended that group a while ago. I have little patience for that sort of demagoguery. Also,whenever I see that sort of revolutionary speech from the left, (NRA VP should be shot, Occupy, etc), I always wonder about the practical quality of how that's going to happen...

You know, I still really didn't see the complaints. So, I think Bob's concern is that Superman isn't a 'pleasant good guy' character in this. And I think, as an origin, that works really well. He's raised as a nice kid by good parents who's constantly in fear of harming those around him. He...

Yea, I don't think this is particularly novel. There's been a string of action movies with the right/republicans as the villains for the past decade. Some are really obvious (Shooter, Syriana, etc.) and some less so, (Bourne might actually have been the first of the new wave), but, it's...

I'm going to ignore all the ad hominems. Also, I'm well aware of the tale of the two cities references, and I appreciated that you caught the republic for me. So, regarding the Democratic Party in the United States, I am well aware that they are functionally no different from the Republican...

Six Shooter, you're fun. I think you have many points right, and I didn't quite catch the meaning of the Plato reference when I watched it. However, I worry that you're an idiot. Your comments are needlessly inflammatory, and your sense of political landscape is weird as hell I'm going to...

also, weird political aside, yes, Toxic Sniper, straight is default, gay is abnormal. Not bad, but, definitely not standard factory settings. Math and reason are pretty clear on this.

I liked it. I really liked it. I kinda see the concerns that Bob had, but, I disagree that they were serious problems. I really like the issues that faefrost had, and I agree with him, but, I don't feel that those are as big of deals as he/she is making them out to be. Sort of, you won the...

Eh. Eh. I enjoyed myself. It wasn't great, things could have been better, but, I don't consider Star Trek a sacred cow, so, I'm fine with it.

Heh, usually, I think you're a clever idiot, but, now, Yahtzee, I think you might actually be intelligent. What do you know about comics? Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have two things in common: they're incredibly depressing and written by Alan Moore. The...

This is actually an interesting problem for me. I work in finance, and a lot of my work involves trying to figure out how to move cash forward. The problem is that a producer's costs precede their revenues and cash tends to get pretty tight in those last couple of months. I would love to be...

Yes and no. Clearly, slavery happened, and, clearly, racism still exists, though, again, clearly not in a way comparable to 50 years ago, let alone 150. On the other hand, accusations of racism seem to have almost no correlation at this point to actual incidents of racism. I'm pretty sure...

Completely ignoring the revenge plot, which is a great plot from the Siefried, Brunhilda perspective, and very problematic if viewed in terms of Jamie Foxx's "killing white people" comments, I'm surprised that more attention hasn't been paid to Samuel Jackson's character. There's a lot going on...