Recent content by Drakoorr

You know, when I first saw the lightsaber w/crossguard, I groaned a bit too, but thinking about it it's actually quite reasonable for the same reasons as real swords having had crossguards, only more so because there's no gauntlet in the galaxy that will save your hand from a lightsaber. Hell...

Plato's Republic advocates technocratic meritocracy, social mobility, and equal rights for women, among other things. That's in the 4th century BC.

Really? I'd have gone with eXploration. Also, while we're building stellar propulsion methods out of sci-fi, anyone want to get to work on an Infinite Improbability Drive? I hear those hardly ever destroy all life on the planet you meant to visit.

I've always thought R'holler was just some kind of demon hopped up on all the belief and blood sacrifice he's getting, rather than an actual deity, but I have no real understanding of the cosmology of the setting, and that assumption presupposes similarities to the cosmologies of totally...

It would be nice if stories like this got more attention, if only so people would shut up about how the EU never does anything for them. Maybe then we'd hear fewer politicians claiming that it's an undemocratic, sovereignty violating tool for renewed German oppression and Eastern European...

If it's sufficiently well written that the empowerment is genuine, then at worst the answer is both. And do keep in mind, we are largely assuming (though not unwarrantedly, I'll admit) that all these scenes were written as wish fulfillment; even if some were, there might be others that were...

Did you really just criticise a show for having characters and scenes that were written by a person? Because that seems a bit... odd, to say the least. I mean, "they're only doing that because they were written that way" is true of all fiction, it doesn't take away from any impact or...

Hah, this well intentioned piece of legislation designed to make life easier for consumers is clearly an utterly unacceptable violation of British sovereignty and independence. Thank goodness the good, hard working, totally not racist and/or homophobic folks at UKIP who will keep us safe from...

I would make a freeze ray to bring the world to its knees and create anarchy (that I would run!), and thus get all the cash and fame (and social change) I ever wanted.

So, which vision of the future will this lead to? Place your bets for... A) Gamer. B) Surrogates. or C) Ghost in the Shell

Dean Winchester from Supernatural, especially in season 6. "Right, so there's a civil war in Heaven and the two sides are the ones who want to start the apocalypse (again) and the ones led by my angelic bff. Since he's horribly outnumbered, he's turned to the King of Hell for support, and...

It depends what you're looking for really. TES has much better combat, but by Skyrim there's no actual role-playing to speak of (never played Morrowind incidentally, I'm going by IV&V). Fallout (*especially* NV) is an unparalleled RPG, but the combat mechanics are quite poor. Personally, I'm...

New Vegas. Not necessarily the focus, granted, but it's possible to complete relying mostly on persuasion. The main game anyway. Alpha Protocol also had some interesting (and reasonably important) persuasion mechanics, though the focus did remain on action/stealth. There's also a...

They (EA and, by extension, Bioware) might be getting someone so inexperienced so they have a stronger chance of bullying him into agreeing to any script they demand, thus retaining effective creative control despite any they may have signed away, bypassing any creative control issues they may...

The reason they don't do that is because if murder and rape get you the same jail time, a rapist might just kill his victims when they're done, since they'd have little more to lose. That's the rationale anyway. Of course, the answer is to make the sentence for rape+murder worse than either one...