Recent content by midshipman01

The point of an allegory is not necessarily to get people to like or dislike whatever the hidden meaning is. You could enjoy the Matrix trilogy without ever thinking of it in terms of Christianity and it still would be fine. In fact, I would guess that most people didn't even know it was an...

As a psych man by education and practice, this guy's on the ball. Anything you are told about any experiment before it starts is intentional. If they just wanted to test what they were testing, they wouldn't tell you anything...well, we will, but only at the end when it's traditional to ask if...

Well, it's also sort of important to understand that the Matrix trilogy was in very many ways a Christian allegory. Setting up a fight between Neo the the anti-Neo at the cusp of the matrix's apocolypse was pretty much a requirement. As per pretty much any allegory, sometimes the details, or...

Funny, I liked pretty much everything but Ravenholm.

In my mind, with the exception of porting Okami to Wii, Nintendo has done nothing of value in at least 8 or 10 years. Half of their IP's before that time still weren't any good, including Zelda. This is coming from an owner of every Nintendo console since NES (including virtual boy, thank you)...

So we're just accepting that there are reapers, massive organic-based machines, the nature of whose existence we cannot begin to comprehend, farming an entire galaxy once every 50,000 years by utilizing a galaxy-wide network of technology so advanced that only one of the farmed species has ever...