Recent content by feycreature

Oh, sorry, one last thing: HEELS!!!!! Seriously can we stop pretending that an action heroine with half a brain would wear spike heels? Just no. Stop it. They're hard to run in, bad for your back, and detrimental to anything that requires balance or strength in your stance. Plus on anything...

This is the part where I want to pat Blizzard on the shoulder and say "You tried. It's...better." Female costumes are still mostly skintight (except Farah), half the women in the trailer insist on standing in that awkward, back-hurting "boobs up, ass out" position used only by comic covers and...

Ooh, ooh, I have so many of these! "I'm not (blank) but..." Almost every single time anyone says this, it means they are about to be whatever thing it is they apparently don't want to be: racist, homophobic, gay, a picky customer, a feminist, a gamer, a film geek, a dog person, whatever. I...

Man, I very dimly remember the big fancy sets, but what I mostly -had- was random bricks. I got a ridiculous pastel-coloured beach house set once....which I promptly made into a spaceship. Still, I was greatly curious about whether this was any good and it is now firmly on the to-see list.

The title could actually be a really super clever nod to some aspects of the book (which I totally wouldn't have caught if we hadn't discussed them in class a week ago, but ANYWAY.) The monster's identity is complicated, bound up with his creator's hopes for him and his own need for...

Anyway, relating to the OP: Offense is probably not the most relevant issue in this case. Offense just means you personally don't like something, and yeah, there's really no reason for anyone else to care. Everyone is allowed to be offended, it just isn't important. HOWEVER. I'd say...

I suspect a certain amount of trauma tends to go with most heroes of any gender. I'm trying to think of exceptions and not finding a lot.... Duke Nukem? Wonder Woman, maybe? But a lot of superheroes (Pretty much the entire Justice League, Spider Man, Daredevil), video game protagonists (Lara...

What still sticks out to me (and drives me crazy) is the "more is better" theory of design. Good design doesn't just and doesn't necessarily mean more money, it means better planning, communication and understanding of the elements you're working with. And that goes for visuals, music, story...

Racist is kind of too vague. Is the movie hateful or intending to give offense? Nah, not really. Is it disrespectful? Eh..... The use of the N word goes from shocking to grating to immature to, frankly, desensitizing. And it may be putting the cart before the horse to do "The great hero! But...

I would actually love to play the First Contact war. Sure, the major historical events are in place, but the same is true of any historical fiction. We know what happened to Leonardo DaVinci but Assassin's Creed still works. Or, as someone above pointed out, the Morning War. There are so many...

Ok, just to get it out of the way: orientalism. Comparatively benign (not nearly as racist as...well...everything about Trolls), and pretty minimal, but it's still worth keeping an eye on. In terms of mechanics, I have a theory about what Blizzard is doing with the spec system and it goes...

*blinkblink* I'm....I'm sad now....

Yeah, there's something...icky about mixing material designed to arouse and graphic violence. If that's your thing, well, there are weirder fetishes out there, but this isn't a niche porn game, it's part of a well-known mainstream series. It's like "Aww yeah, you guys know you're into watching...

...ok. I'm going to be totally honest. Even after Minos explained his plan, I -still- had no clue what the movie was about. I still don't. I do think I have to locate a drinking game and do a bad movie night with this.

On topic though, it is encouraging that this guy found love, or rather, that it found him. That certainly is luck. I wouldn't trust to that though. Waiting for someone to just magically appear has never gotten me half as far as going out and finding people. Plus there are a few too many broad...