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The Rats in the Walls has an unfortunately-named cat, but the story in general is not particularly racist. Many others are. Personally, I think it's his best short story. Oddly, The Call of Cthulhu is one of my least-favorite. You could just dive in anywhere, really. All his works are relatively...

I was vegetarian for most of my life (and am still mostly vegetarian, since I'm used to it), and I totally get where you're coming from. I never proselytized or pushed my "vegetarian agenda" at all, but I was regularly teased and interrogated by meat eaters whenever my vegetarianism came up...

Sci-Fi: I recommend Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago by Octavia Butler. They're usually compiled in one volume called Lilith's Brood (previously called Xenogenesis). Humans pretty much wipe themselves out, but are saved/zoo-ified/absorbed by an alien race called the Oankali, who travel the...

I'm a little pissed off at commenters' hopes (assumptions) that the kid will get through it, live life to its fullest, take comfort in J.K.'s letter and carry on, yada yada. This is extreme fucking trauma. You don't just tunnel through it. If you survive, you have to change. It is forced upon...

Parentheses indicate games bundled with the system. Of the bundled games, Tetris is the only one I really got into. NES - Metroid Gameboy - (Tetris), Final Fantasy Legend SNES - Final Fantasy 4 Genesis - Shining Force Sega CD - (Sewer Shark), Lunar: the Silver Star Playstation -...

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My favorites are probably: *From Hell by Alan Moore -- Jack the Ripper and so much more. There was a bad movie adaptation. *Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi -- autobiographical story about growing up in Iran, traveling abroad, coming of age, all that jazz. There was a pretty good movie...

Check out Demon's Souls and Little Big Planet 2. Valkyria Chronicles and Resonance of Fate (original name: End of Eternity) are alright, if you're into RPGs. EDIT: Your screen name is a Neuromancer reference, yeah? Right on!

He's a smart guy, with a good voice. I think he's just hamming it up with the "OMG this is so nerdy!" stuff, cuz publicity. He'll probably do a bang-up job.

Eh, I dunno. Watch it if you have time to kill. It's a mixed bag, IMO. I don't see the point in taking a poll - of course it's a popular show, so most people are gonna say "OMG! Watch it right the fuck now! You don't know what you're missing!!" Here are a bunch of my mostly-superficial...

I thought of the "Munchers" educational games that I played as a kid (Number Munchers and Word Munchers). They were developed by MECC, the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium/Corporation. Which three MECC characters would make for the most iconic smashing brothers? Hmm . . . 1...

Final Fantasy has never been sci-fi. Pseudo- modern/future settings don't make something sci-fi. Science does. Anyway, I prefer the ones that you labelled "fantasy". I liked 7 and 8 well enough, but my favorites (6 and 12) fall in your first category.

Star: Moderators do a pretty good job. Star: Relatively intelligent / respectful community. Wish: There are typos in almost every article. Proofreading is glaringly absent / ineffectual. So, uh . . . I wish that was not the case.

Congrats on becoming a parent!! At first, I thought "Noooo! Not that! Don't name her that!" . . . but after a few minutes of contemplation - fuck it. My daughter's school is filled with kids with ridiculous names. Except, see, they're only ridiculous to me. To the kids, and their parents...

I haven't played them, but you might wanna check out the King's Field series. Apparently Demon's Souls was a spiritual successor to King's Field. I can't really think of anything I've played that captures the same feel as the Souls games . . . Dragon's Dogma was obviously trying to bite their...