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When a reviewer pans a film that many people like, particularly by claiming to be annoyed that it wasn't a more intellectual film, then it comes off as pretentious and a failure to perform their job effectively. If you can't like a movie a little, then you don't understand it at all.

He could have given these toys to poor/sick children who would have appreciated them. The only message in his act is that a single Warhammer player is a selfish, thoughtless jerk.

Justin was thinking of the Chtorr series by David Gerrold.

Yes. But the tragedy of it is that passing along abuse in one form or another is a coping mechanism for many people. They are not callously inflicting harm on others for simple amusement, but as a means of establishing a sense of control. And people will escalate their abuse (or neglect or...

Suffering will happen. It will not be fun. And you will not enjoy it. And you are not supposed to. You can't avoid it. You can't prevent yourself from making other suffer. It's part of life. Feel the pain, but don't wallow in it. Don't cause pointless suffering and don't make yourself...

I bought Hot Tin Roof because I enjoyed the discussion of it. I think it's clever & fun. The discussion of drones was not interesting.

This video series is propaganda. It opens with the phrase "In a wealth-obsessed world...", and that is treated as if it were a fact-beyond-questioning, so that the viewer will accept it as one. That's how propaganda works -- placing ideas into contexts where people will accept them without...

I would have to view more of this video series to see if it addresses the gaps left open here. Like, "What is capitalism?" People get into these "Capitalism vs Communism/Socialism" arguments, without actually saying what they mean by any of the words. As if "capitalism" means "You know...

Because he attributes the effects of the film on him to the film instead of to himself, as if it were an objective truth and not a subjective experience.

Yes. As engaging as playing tag in a phone booth. I think you have identified the solution, but not the problem. Bob's "positive" reviews are very cogent, well-presented and insightful. When talking about things he likes, Bob will wax introspective, identify nostalgia and sentimentality...

While I know you are well intentioned, you have reached an level of casual ineptitude that makes listening this podcast further uninteresting. The comments about the developers of 'Hatred' are absurd -- particularly from people working around game-journalism who should know that developers of...

Bob, your review was poorly made. That's unusual, because you know better. You didn't like the film, but rather than just say that, you claimed that there was a problem -- that the film didn't show you want you wanted to see or tell you what you wanted to hear. As if that was required of any...

If anyone holds that films play at 72fps, despite knowing that's due to flashing same frames three times, then they should have nothing to complain about with so-called 30fps games. Because everything on a 60Hz monitor is 60fps, so long as you don't care about the same frames being displayed...

Regarding net neutrality, people should read http://www.cnet.com/news/comcast-vs-netflix-is-this-really-about-net-neutrality/ and consider that this is not "the people vs evil corporations", but rather "some corporations tricking people into protesting other corporations so the first...

Space Travel: None of you presented any positive reason for putting people into space. The benefits of GPS and communication satellites are obvious, but can you name any benefit of putting a human into space? (And no, "To see if we can" and "To get better at doing it" are not valid answers...