Recent content by IndieGinge

I think this is why DA2 (despite its vast number of flaws) remains my favorite in the series, and probably in my top 3 Bioware games in general. I personally think their character writing was in peak form for it. The party, including Hawke, was a group of fully realized characters, not...

Dude, they ARE Evangelion fans. They just enjoy poking fun at a famous thing that they like. And then it got so much attention that they decided to keep doing that. I think, I'm not a psychic after all. They don't have anything against straight white males in general either. They just like...

I'd say that fanfiction is obviously not as legitimate as the source material. And I'm going to have to agree with GRRM on subject as well. Perhaps I'm coloring fanfic with my own bad experiences, but even most "good" fanfic I've run afoul of weren't too great. Which is something I blame on what...

Well Team Avatar isn't the Red Lotus, they'd rather NOT kill people. The members of the Red Lotus were just too dangerous as a group, especially when Korra's life was on the line. As to Zaheer's motivations, I thought he was based on actual 19-20th century Anarchists. His philosophy is...

On the subject of "Why does this perfect society even have a Giver?" in the novel The Giver acts as a sort of repository for knowledge that the rest of society can't deal with but may still need. There's an implication that The Giver has immense power when it comes to dealing with external...

Okay, that just made me really fricking sad, not to sound like a dick, but why don't you try to summon anyone? If I remember right, there's always hella summons around the interior bonfire during the daytime. Just get an OP squad of three chosen undead and just destroy everything! Out of...

Imma disagree with you on the Morrigan bit, seeing as I like her the most because I think she's got an actually interesting character arc if you pursue friendship or romance with her. Flemeth basically sabotaged Morrigan's entire repertoire of social skills and values to make sure she didn't...

No...this suggests that stories are good even if they ignore logic in the name of giving us a stronger emotional or dramatic payoff within their own confines. However, Cloud Atlas didn't quite phrase it as well or comprehensively as Film Hulk did, so if you didn't read that somewhat doorstopping...

Hey Jim? While I'd like to hope that nobody who's not trying to justify their own bad behavior would disagree with your video, I'd also like to hope you aren't bigoted against us skinny-jeans wearing latte-chuggers. There certainly are a few horrible douchenozzles that down delicious lattes and...

Unless I'm mistaken, that was actually addressing Ayn Rand and Objectivism as a whole, not Catcher in the Rye. Which would frankly make a lot more sense, considering that nothing in CiR seems to paint Holden as anything better than a sad, angsty teenager with mental issues.

Admiring Shinji? That's a first. I don't really have any problems with him, I certainly don't get the hate, I mean, growing up with a massive asshole of a dad in post-apocalypticia while undergoing puberty ON TOP of being forced into serving as a child soldier while essentially the entire cast...

One, I'd like to say that you, by far, have one of the best points on this thread. Hurting people sucks, there's no invisible scale that's "balanced" because X Douchey comments = 1 broken nose. If you knock somebody out because they said something shitty, you just knocked somebody out because...

I hope that they actually get Jen Taylor to help with this, because one of these apps that actually sounds like a real human being would be fucking awesome. I know everyone's all chiming in that they wan GlAdOS, but when I heard this, I was kinda thinking it would be cool if there were more...

Yeah, I'd say The Fountainhead was the last time Ayn Rand had any intellectually defensible ideas, before her ego consumed her entirely and all that. Except the fucking creepy self-inflicted-rape-seduction-romance between the the male and female leads. It's likely because her ideas look waaaay...

We'll just have to agree to disagree about The Plague. But anyways...I'd say The Poisonwood Bible. I enjoyed Adah's POV chapters, but I found the main perspectives to just be...well, overly familiar and uninteresting. Mostly this is because the characters are all supposed to represent different...