Recent content by mronoc

One is promoting dialogue and debate, the other is (was?) promoting legislative censorship. It's as simple as that.

The "Souls" series, with the caveat that "random" in this case means being randomly selected from a very limited menu of terms and phrases.

There are a fair amount of people who associate any instance of graphic violence in a serious attempt at storytelling in games with Ludonarrative Dissonance. I'd wager the prominence of this opinion can be linked back to statements on the original Bioshock by John Blow. I'm typically in...

Regarding the television show "really, really okay" seems more than little generous, at best it's "sorta, kinda okay."

Given the sheer amount of shit I see tossed at Phil Fish on the internet on a constant basis, this outburst is wholly understandable. Childish and irrational to be sure, but also understandable.

I really don't get how they can call it a Fantasia game if the soundtrack isn't primarily comprised of classical music. The whole point of the films, was introducing a new generation to, and teaching appreciation for, classical music.

This is off-topic, but I just wanna mention that it's nice to see some love for "Amazing World of Gumball." It's a funny show with a lot of fun, cool, and clever design and animation work, but for some reason I never see it getting the same attention that Adventure Time, Regular Show, and MLP...

During World War I, the germans were ofter referred to as "Huns", specifically in propaganda posters.

My first reaction is to point to Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap." My second reaction is that Peter Molyneux's Bullfrog era output must have been way better than his Lionhead era output to warrant putting him on that list.

I'm seeing a surprising amount of gamers heaving a sigh of relief. People seem to be forgetting that the one underwhelming film Raimi's made in his career is the one that was ruined by executives getting in the way of the movie he was trying to make.

I don't have the apparent contempt Bob does for J.J. Abrams, but I get the grumbling. I don't think he has it in him as a film maker to pull off anything close to Portal's tone.

Yeah, I'd certainly never say it was great, just that kind of works in it's own way, a very broad, melodramatic, Disney-ish kind of way. I think the reason I tend to be lenient towards ACW, is that my expectations were thoroughly lowered by the fact that I found so many of the later season 2...

Eh, I honestly don't remember much about Magic Duel, just that I enjoyed it a lot more than any of the other S3 eps. I honestly haven't been watching the show at all lately, maybe I just liked it for Trixie's abuse of Snips and Snails. Regarding the Royal Wedding, on some level the whole thing...

Yeah, season 1 was great, there was a solid understanding of story structure and characterization that I have to believe came largely from Lauren Faust (if you look back at the episodes of "Foster's" she wrote, there's that same understanding of the fundamentals of storytelling). Season two...

Reacting to the very opening: Oh come now, Abram's Star Trek may be kind of vapid, and Super 8 may have had script issues, but it's not like he's put out anything near as bad as the prequels. The fact that Disney's probably going to be very hands on here, and that they've kind of been really...