Recent content by Loreley

I wish I could upvote posts sometimes, like Overhead's breakdown of that meme. It really surprises me how easy it still is to manipulate the internet into being a PR machine. I haven't even read superhero comics in a while and I saw those last couple pages and was like, yeah, this totally...

Hello! I'm looking for a game that I played on the computer about 5 to 10 years ago, although it could have been older even then. It was a Tetris/Mean Bean Machine type of deal, but the blocks were fruits (apples or cherries, they were sort of cartoonish, but it was all one fruit only...

Oh, seriously? That's the game that they don't have one PC? That's disappointing, I'd be totally up for playing a Templar, even now that they've pretty much made them into Saturday morning cartoon villains. I thought the majority of assassins in AC4 were some of the most annoying NPCs I've ever...

Adding to the choir, Mass Effect 3's last 20 minutes. And so I'm not only going after the easy target, I'm going to add something I think I'm pretty alone with... I hated, haaaated the Assassins in AC4. Yeah, Edward was a complete ditz and his sudden and incurable infatuation with the...

I think there are a few people in GRRM's books who pretty much fill the good/bad thing pretty well. Especially bad guys - the Mountain, the Bastard, some of the Nightswatchmen and Greyjoys... Starks also are usually goodies. Yeah, they die like flies, but they die tragic deaths, like many heroes...

Going to second Arya. I haven't seen the show, but I've read the books. I've also read a lot of other fantasy books, so the "girl who doesn't want to do girly things in a world where she would have to do girly things" archetype is about as new to me as cave paintings are to world history. The...

I think what's important is intent here. It's like the Power Girl Boob Window - you can spend fifty issues on making up a sensible origin story for it or try to explain how it distracts enemies, but in the end, heroines are wearing it to appeal to male readers. There might be secondary, in-story...

I had a giant one in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. I think my brain was as bugged as the game for those parts. Minor spoilers for a storyline:

Sansa from ASOIAF. I always reget saying that one because I get a barrage of answers of how I just don't ~understand her subtle character arc~ and whatnot, but no. I do understand. I just don't care. I pity her, but I find her boring. I hate that so many fans see her as the next Queen of...

Actually, that's true, I had forgotten that. I still think male characters do not face the threat of rape on such a broadband level as many female characters. Even though usually the game does not go through with it, showing sexual aggression towards women is basically a stock element of many...

Everyone going on about ~art~ and ~expression~ here is really being a bit silly; if you put that sort of thing in your trailer (excepting a game that would make dealing with the victims feelings or revenge or something the main plot, which would be quite a different matter), you're not going for...

People make too much of the Jon thing. She said the Real Bad Thing - it should have been you - once, in a moment of very great stress. She worries about something that is quite sensible for the time period presented as she states in the book once (Jon's children might at some point come to...

I guess it depends on who you are rooting for in the show (or the books, I know them better). I care what happens to the Lannisters and the Tyrells, so the RW wasn't very traumatic to me. I always found the most interesting part about GoT/ASOIAF is that you can take your pick thanks to the many...

Carlos Ferro was Leonardo da Vinci in Assassin's Creed and Dom Santiago in Gears of War. I didn't notice/expect it until I read about it. Weren't exactly two characters with the same personality type, after all...

I'm gonna say Javik from Mass Effect. He had one of the worst backstories anyone could ever have. Seriously, if you think about it... [mild spoilers] to have an ability that won't just leave you with your own memories of living in a broken empire a century behind any feasible attempt of...