Recent content by Kpt._Rob

I'm not going to say that you absolutely shouldn't self publish, just that it's very much not the optimal situation. First off, the stigma surrounding self published work will be enough to deter many readers. People know that self publishing is the route people take when they have a work that...

Star Trek is absolutely the direction you should go. Don't save it for later, enjoy it for now! TNG is of course one of the absolute best series. I don't feel like there's any real need for me to vouch for its quality. It's got Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard, Brent Spiner as Lt...

Ah yes, that is a pretty good call. By the time you get to the end, and the characters start quoting Sartre you suddenly realize that what you thought was just a lot of fun was also a work of fairly serious existentialist storytelling. Incidentally, these two clips are NOT representative of...

I would suggest to you an anime called Ghost Hound. It's written by Masamune Shirow (who wrote the original manga for Ghost in the Shell). It's set in a rural Japanese town, combines elements of psychology, theoretical physics, and a certain amount of supernatural lore (things like Out of Body...

I would say that while it is technically art, it's boring, lazy, and highly derivative art. Worthy of all the scorn which might be heaped upon it, and not justified by the cost at which it was brought into the world. First off, the "idea" (if it deserves to be described as such) of painting...

You're actually not the first person to point out that Lovecraft was a terrible writer. In Stephen King's autobiography/advice for aspiring writers book, On Writing he uses Lovecraft as an example of a bad writer. Lovecraft had some truly original ideas, and a solid enough understanding of the...

Yeah, New 52 Batgirl is the one I'm talking about. As for Death of the Family, it does involve all the Bat Family characters (but they interact so frequently I hesitate to call it a crossover), but it's much more exciting than just that. At the end of the first New 52 issue of the mostly...

This has, no doubt, already been said a million times before, but don't worry and start anywhere. Just pick a hero you like and start reading their comics. New 52 would be a good place to start, you could order the back issues and start from #1s at relatively small expense. I read about half...

The paradigm of today's music is consumability. Contemporary music is designed around psychological principles which actually make it mildly addictive. It uses simple repetitive beats to create patterns which the brain easily recognizes and predicts (which is something the brain likes)...

I may not be a scientist, and his work may be out of date at this point. But if there is one man whose attitude towards life I would seek to imitate, it would have to be Carl Sagan. That kind of genuine love for learning, and for humanity and life in general, and the awe with which he...

... Because that's not really what Mario is about. The cake is the kind of charming childish thing that's just really easy to misinterpret. I really don't think that there's some official at Nintendo using cake as a metaphor for sex. The cake is literal. It's just cake. The cake...

We also, in certain parts of the world, eat cats, dogs, horses, and other animals which we are capable of forming relationships with. Again, it's just cycle of life stuff. Also, Farfetch'd is one of the lamest pokemon, so like I said, if people want to eat it, that's fine by me. Just look at...

Only when you apply the logic of our world to it. At the very least, this much can be said, whatever flaws it might have, it's a much happier world than the one we live in. Animals get eaten here, and animals get eaten there. And if they're only eating Fartetch'd, that's fine by me. And...

I really don't know why anyone would choose any option other than Pokemon. That world is, in the most literal sense imaginable, heaven. A charming place, filled with delightful creatures. I know people like to come in and ironically read a sense of darkness into it (what with the whole...

There's actually an argument, though it lacks any definitive method of being proven or dis-proven, that there's a high probability that we do live in a simulation. Making the assumption that any culture with a high enough level of advancement would create a simulation of a universe, it would...