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To be fair her stance seems to be consistent with her own beliefs. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber "...In her book, as well as in an interview with the Today show, Mallette (his mother) talked about how everyone around her tried to push her toward abortion, and how she...

...and neither did you state what the "direction that MovieBob is taking with his material" is...Do you see a change in the style of his videos? Maybe an example would help.

Not sure what you really mean here. If I take this at face value you seem to be asking if people like the format of his shows or the writing style of his column. The editing, the way Bob talks, the pacing, the font...this would be the "style" thing you mentioned. Unless I, and everyone else...

Wow 22 pages of this nonsense. Clearly some people in this thread do not have a lot of life experience. Marketers/advertisers "lie", they are trying to sell. A product, a service, an idea, a lifestyle...If they can get you to think about what they are selling or discuss it that is a...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkssturm "It was set up, not by the traditional German Army, but by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler on October 18, 1944. It conscripted males between the ages of 16 to 60 years who were not already serving in some military unit as part of a...

"...what happened that night was that a man carrying firearms approached the Metropolis theatre, where the PQ victory party was being held, and attempted to enter. He didn't get in, but he did manage to wound two men, one fatally, before setting fire to the back door." From...

This quote from Unforgiven seems to fit Little Bill Daggett: "Look son, being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he'll kill ya. It ain't so...

I find you to be willfully ignorant. You stated that a dev deciding how to dress a female character was the same as a woman in the real world deciding what to wear I said this opinion was full of shit...and this is your basis for stating that I have a deep seated dysfunctional prejudice...

Do you actually read anything or do you merely react? "...only BAD authors write themselves into corners..." "That's just your opinion that conveniently support your argument." ....so you find this to be a false statement? Because.....? "But the point is he did whatever he did FOR A...

Yes, a writer writes everything he/she writes.........a well written story pulls you in. A poorly written story does not.... You are still trying to take the writer out of the picture.... only BAD authors write themselves into corners where there is only one ,or a limited, course of action...

This seems to have gone off the rails somewhat... "But what if the CHARACTER would naturally do that from what is established about the character" ...yes and how is this first established? The writer writes it. The writer makes all the decisions. Just because the writer/designer has...

con·trived/kənˈtrīvd/ Adjective: Deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously. Giving a sense of artificiality. I am not offering a "literary criticism". I am opposing your opinion that a character placed in an outfit in a videogame can be...

heh...sexism and or "demeaning" depictions of women in video games are not all or nothing. Each depiction/action is judged on a case by case basis...like in the real world. "why did snake leave Foxhound".....this is contrived... the writer contrived it...if it is well written then it will...

What you don't seem to get is that you cannot remove the designer/author from the equation... It does not matter if the motivations make sense to you or not. It does not matter if the character is well written or not. What matters is how or why the character was written that way in the first...

You are comparing apples to, well, Photoshopped pictures of apples. When you are talking about a character in a video game being sexist or not the motivations of the designers is everything.....Motivations for characters are in the narrative. The choices that Snake makes are because he was...