Recent content by Stephen St.

We could talk about the good parts. I liked the "Thorin fights his inner dragon" bit, although the exectution wasn't perfect, I liked the idea, and the visuals were pretty cool. I really liked the armored mountain goats too. Even though they were conjured out of thin air, and were, like so...

I actually found the first one decent, if not overly exciting, and the second one I really liked. A mix of humor and epic storytelling that was a bit different from the LOTR movies. The third part, though, was pretty awful imho. I left the theater sorely disappointed. It did not work well...

Is half this thread really claiming that they care about continuity and in-universe explanations in Jurassic Park? Yeah beacuse JP 2 and 3 totally did not retcon stuff and use cheap excuses for plotholes. Jurassic Park 1 was believable because it made things just scientific enough that, while...

I second this. The Trailer doesn't look bad, as in it's not offensive, but it's also unexciting. There wasn't a single "I wonder what this is" or "hey that looks cool" moment for me - in a Teaser-Trailer, that's bad. Am I to believe that they have nothing interesting to show to us apart from the...

So, I went and watched Interstellar yesterday. An interesting movie,but I agree with MovieBobs assessment that all in all, it just doesn't work very well. The visuals are stunning and the space exploration parts are great, but they just don't vibe with the "love as a tangible force" bits and the...

True, but then anarchy is pretty much anathema to freedom. Freedom would invalidate itself if it included the right for everyone to do whatever they wanted, because that includes taking away the freedom of others. Sure, empirically that is true. You have a factual ability to speak and that...

Then define what "freedom" means in freedom of speech. Because if all speech is free speech, then the qualifier "free" is empty - i.e. the word "freedom" has no actual content. Describe to me a case where insulting someone is a moral thing to do. ´ The problem is that "insult" is a...

That definition of "freedom" only holds if we talk about what people physically are able though. If, however, we are talking about "limiting one's right to free speech", then "freedom" in understood as a "right" not an ability, as an ability is something you either have or haven't, not something...

Free speech is a concept, based on the broader concept of freedom. If something isn't "protected speech", to use American parlance, then it isn't free speech at all. You don't have the freedom to insult others (you have the ability, but that is merely a fact and not a freedom), so prohibitions...

I'd say that's the difference between what's legal and what's moral. It's legal to try to silence someone you disagree with, but it isn't moral as long as you aren't defending your own freedom (against lies or being insulted, for example). Every exception from the rule can be phrased as part...

But these are all descriptions. I was wondering about "gamer" as an identity, something you identify with. Not something other people use to describe you, but something you consider an important part of who you are. All these "gamers are dead" articles certainly didn't use the term as merely...

Well thanks for all the replies so far! Sure, but what does "identify themselves as a gamer" mean? What are the attributes of a gamer? Well, it might have been externally imposed for the longest time, but hasn't that changed recently? Many people seem to want to take this identity and...

Hey everyone. This is a topic that, in light of the recent GG discussions, has given me a bit of thought. But not for the usual reasons, so this is not a GG, a feminism, or social justice thread. This is a thread about what games mean for us and what calling ourselves "gamers" is supposed to...

I'd like you to actually engage with what I wrote instead of making sweeping claims and tell me a.) How that follows from what I wrote and b.) If, by considering my view false, you therefore think playing games does not actually add to your experiences. There is a discipline called moral...

And why is the claim extraordinary? Because it seems perfectly ordinary to me to claim that the things I experience influence the way I think. Now not to be dishonest, there are people making extraordinary claims, and there is questions of what sexist thinking actually entails and where it...