Recent content by dyre

Nice to see some familiar-looking avatars still arguing over the same tired topics. Though apparently the site has gone dramatically downhill since I last visited (2016), holy shit

Yeah, this. I feel like he's lost track of what the plot was supposed to be, and has now settled on just writing whatever nonsense comes to his head with no intention of actually completing any of the random subplots, except maybe by killing off everyone involved. Another series that I liked...

My parents were always a bit frugal when it came to getting me the cool new toys, but I did have enough toy soldiers to invade a small Middle-Eastern country, plus five tanks, two humvees, one truck with a missile launcher, and a toy monster truck. My brother and I used to set up massive...

As an addendum to your point about needing to back up your interpretations, I think the main reason that reader interpretation has gotten such a bad rep lately is because of prevalence of half-baked, poorly backed "theories" out there, thanks to the "everyone gets to have an opinion" phenomena...

I feel you 100%. I'm still amazed I had so much time and energy to get riled up over arguments on the internet back when I was in college. Now that I have a job and have to pay rent, my list of "things worth arguing about" has shrunken dramatically. I think when you get older and have less...

This comment isn't specifically directed at today's strip (though it certainly applies), but I think the quality/humor of this comic has been improving as of late. Keep it up!

A lot of Japanese publishers seem to simply not care about their export sales for some reason. In fact, a lot of business practices from Japanese publishers seem downright alien to me. I'm no industry expert, but I am a finance guy who's done case studies on companies like EA and Activision. I...

I'll admit that as a cis-gender male, I've always found being trans to be a lot more confusing to understand than being gay. Mainly because while I do identify as being straight, I don't really identify as being male in any meaningful way. It's not like I take it for granted or something...I...

Seems fair to me...if you get someone killed that way, it's the same as aggravated manslaughter, which can carry a life sentence. I don't think they're legally obliged to do that, especially if they think that there's a hostage situation / active shooter and retaining the element of surprise...

Don't be absurd! Carry weight is 150 + (Str x 10), so she'll be able to carry around 160 pounds of gear while running at a full sprint. And with 2 Endurance, she'll be able to shrug off several pistol rounds to the face without breaking a sweat!

Uh, I didn't major in a science field, but I did take a couple courses in psychology, and I'm pretty sure this is a violation of all kinds of research standards. Non-randomized pool of candidates on a specific website with a definite liberal and pro-LGBTQ slant in its userbase. Not that this is...

That was my first thought as well, but I find it to be statistically implausible. It could be that humanity is on the cutting edge of advanced life in this galaxy, but highly unlikely. Even if life-sustaining planets have only been around in this galaxy for the ~4.5 billion years that Earth has...

I think we're thinking too small when we imagine aliens investigating planets using actual living explorers. Bostrom posits that von Neumann probes - self replicating spacecraft controlled by an AI program - would be the most likely method, and obviously these drones would be able to cover the...

Yeah I guess it's hard to tell sometimes. When someone says "meh, Star Trek: Into Darkness is just genre film," do they mean that they think Star Trek is a mediocre movie that is only enjoyable for fans of the genre, or do they mean that it is a mediocre movie simply because it's part of a...

Yeah I see what you mean, but I think people might naturally be inclined to think you feel some kind of special importance regarding del Toro since you made a whole thread about it, you know? You'd hardly be the first person to attach legitimacy to something just because a celebrity endorsed it...