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Nope. Littaly was asking for aesthetic redesigns. Let's parse that: aesthetic - relating to the surface appearance of things, in this context referring to the "look" of a character or environment. redesign - changing minor or significant aspects of said characteter or environment. You...

First third: Jim burns a straw man. OF COURSE used games aren't as BAD as piracy. Still doesn't mean they're FUCKING GOOD. Second third: Jim treats us to a vaguely coherent rant about capitalism. Yes, corporate greed and consolidation are BAD THINGS. You know another corporation that's...

The TV tropes entry someone linked to was really interesting. It points out that some supposed dei ex machina are up for debate, since a Chekhov Gun is present, but really hastily or poorly drawn in a way that makes it obvious that the writer saw the impossible situation, pulled a resolution out...

Out of the above examples, none of the ones I'm familiar with are true dei ex machina. Yeah, that's right, I declined the Latin noun correctly. Or at least attempted to, it's been a long time since I took Latin. If that strikes you as pretentious, probably don't read the rest of this post...