Recent content by catalyst8

I second that. Consistently good articles, keep up the good work!

Greetings fellow Escapists. As per. the above subject, my girlfriend & I shall be visiting Belgium for a week using Brussels as a base while visiting surrounding cities such as Brugge, Antwerp, Ghent, etc. by train, as well as the capitol itself by foot, bus, tram, & Metro. My tourist French...

Poor US America, as if persecuting their intellectuals wasn't enough they now promote their anti-science conspiracy nuts. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/26/3742910/judge-orders-state-to-give-millions-in-subsidies-to-creationist-amusement-park/

The character Max has sparse dialogue exactly like the previous films, probably because they were written & directed by the same person. None of the Mad Max films have an even remotely complex plot, with what did you have difficulty?

Absolutely. I'd like to add that Machiavelli was writing specifically about the mechanisms of political power in Renaissance Europe, which is a very particular context indeed. If one reads The Prince, regardless of whether one takes it as a satire or not, its structure is similarly clinical to...

Again you deliberately avoid the point in order to make a condescending comment unrelated to the matter, & yet again that only goes to illustrate your refusal to engage with the subject. I've asked you three times now, I won't ask you again to be civil. Actually no, they aren't. I've been...

It looks like we're citing the same source for the definition i.e. the dictionary, but you cut mine short (I said "the quality of being justifiable by reason, specifically the systematic determination of forms of valid deductive argument") & you did the same to yours too. For argument's sake...

There's really no need to resort to offensive remarks although I'd already noticed that it hasn't stopped you in your previous comments to others, but by doing so you're actually detracting from your own argument. The comment I replied to, the one I quoted was I pointed out that the...

Then you must elucidate; I pointed out an overwhelming scientific consensus which, if you 'were a government' shouldn't require a second's thought to realise there's a problem. There's nothing revolutionary or subversive about asking for evidence in support of a claim. It's the staple of...

How about a 97% scientific consensus, or scientific evidence that suggests our behaviour as a species & our disregard for for the environment has launched a mass extinction event? Are you suggesting that there's actual evidence to support the Abrahamic myth, & that by far the mass of its...

Then you don't accept science, the scientific method, or empirical evidence e.g. IPCC 2007 'it is a greater than a 90 percent certainty that emissions of heat-trapping gases from human activities have caused "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th...

OK, thanks for explaining. I was confused because I never expect something to be a remake unless it specifically says it is, & then try to avoid it for as long as possible until someone inflicts it on me. I only know of four good remakes anyway, & two of those are really homages by Terry Gilliam...

Would you explain that, please? I ask because Mad Max: Fury Road isn't a remake, it's a sequel directed by George Miller, the same director & one of the writers as the previous two (let us never mention Thunder Dome). In addition to that it has an actual actor in the eponymous role, with an...

I'm curious about the omission of Elite, all 22 K of it, & perhaps less so about Thief since that seems to be routinely overlooked on lists like this. I'd certainly argue that games like Defender or Space Ace were pioneering in the literal sense of the word too.

Not just that, Thief: The Dark Project was released two years earlier than Deus Ex, which belies Mr. Whitaker's claim that "Deus Ex was the first game that managed to bring together meaningful story, stealth, and platforming in a first person shooter." Deus Ex was a very good game, but Thief was...