Recent content by Byzantinium

We can't restrict the weapons because MAH GUNNNSSS We can't have better mental health care because MAH TAXESSSSSS So people keep dying, and we keep pretending we can't do anything.

I admit, I express my dislike harsher than I would otherwise, just because it gets such a rise out of the people saying "you'll change your mind" or "HOW DARE YOU BE SO SELFISH" and whatnot.

Children are mostly terrible, and the few moments where they're funny or cute don't make up for it.

"Authoritarian meritocracy" is a good description of House's Vegas, really.

I joined them the first time because I'm a big classics nerd. But after seeing that there is no Senate, no Virgil, no great works of architecture or technology, and no rule of law...I regretted it. The Legion isn't Rome, it's the barbarian hordes pounding at the Republic's gates. So, I'm...

I don't shave totally, but I do hack the brush down during the summer to keep things cool.

I, and I assume the others in my position, have nothing to be confident about. I don't talk much anyway, it took me six months before I started talking to my co-workers.

This is the standard dating advice, but the problem is how the fuck do you do that?

Feet. Furries/fatties/etc I can understand because it's all the same sexual bits with different wrapping, and the various pain fetishes are because the pleasure and pain sections of the brain are neighbors (same reason some people sneeze when they see a bright light)...but feet? I really do not...

It's a game. Tone down the crazy social Darwinism a few notches. Human society won't crumble because we decide to relax while being entertained.

I'm just a little emotional right now, you guys are throwing all this stuff at me. Can I, like, get a hug from you or something?

I see what you're getting at, but I can't agree because his unstoppable-badassness is never presented as anything but terrible, both for him and everybody else. The games are never cheering Kratos on, and that keeps him from being a Sue in my book.

Not really. It's named for a character in a parody Star Trek fanfiction from back in the 70's. Wikipedia summarizes it better than I can: "The term "Mary Sue" is from the name of a character created by Paula Smith in 1973 for her parody story "A Trekkie's Tale" published in her fanzine...

Kratos...idealized? Really? I'm gonna have to ask you to elaborate, because the games are pretty clear that he's a terrible, disgusting person whose bullheaded obsession with "vengeance" literally destroys everything.

Edit: Double.