Recent content by Rowan93

Let's face it, we're all going to watch it anyway, and it's going to make a ton of money. THAT'S why.

It's doesn't resemble a concentration camp, it is explicitly referred to as a ghetto [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghettos_in_Nazi-occupied_Europe]. The "Jews under Nazi occupation" vibe could only be any stronger if the history lesson the dad gave was about how the Eldians killed the...

Well, the "allegedly fatal scenarios" part isn't vital for an action/drama series in the first place, so even if a show that has them but can't make you take the risk of character death seriously is always bad (which is debatable) the answer is still no.

I think the whole point of a "x good men" thing is that they don't have to be any specific "good men", you can do the job with literally anyone who's not incompetent or cowardly. So, in the theme of that, and because otherwise the temptation is to just see how many invincible or omnipotent...

Until like, two years ago when I saw a kerfuffle on the internet about someone (in America, obviously) using the "slur", not only was I not aware of that perception, I actually thought the insult was gendered male. I'm not sure if, in the whole 19 years of my life before that, I'd ever even...

"Inb4" is short for "in before", and means that I'm calling in advance a likely way people are going to respond. I'm talking to those hypothetical readers of my post who would respond that way.

I don't like this joke, in its many iterations. It basically relies on a weird dumb misconception - that there are or were people who actually believed putting a flag somewhere made that place yours. Raising a flag on a territory is just an official symbolic way of announcing "we own this place...

When a game is exclusive to PC, that's usually for completely different reasons to when a game is exclusive to a particular console, so I'm not sure you can compare them like that. Console exclusives are usually because the owner of the console wants anyone who wants to play the game to have to...

I don't see why watching someone you have never met and will never meet die should become more disturbing when the reason why is "they were a stranger far away" than when the reason is "they're a fictional character". They're not a part of your life either way, just an image on a screen...

It's not coming soon, but those numbers and that level of certainty sound way off. I mean, the extreme is 2049 + 80 years = 2129, and that's further into the future than the Wright Brothers' first flight was in the past. I don't think you can predict anything with "if you disagree you're stupid"...

In the last comic she was supposed to have breakfast, I think videogames are about as poor a substitute for food as pot is. At least pot makes you hungry instead of making you forget to eat.

To answer the question in the title while ignoring the podcast, as others have here; Leonard Nimoy was retired and only making occasional cameo appearances, and was older than the life expectancy of his demographic when he died. His death was certainly a tragedy for his family, and is...

Besides all the third-law-proving high technology, and the feats of engineering that, while conceivably not magical to someone from the 11th century, are still awe-inspiring, one other thing that's worth mentioning is how healthy we all are. We're so well-fed that starvation basically...

From what I've heard of it, that film sounds like the kind of treatment of AI that tends to annoy me, where the creators are "thinking big", but their idea of thinking big is to make robots into autistic metal humans like everyone else does and making that stupid idea actually central to the...

Actually I think I saw it last month - the meme's been resurgent on tumblr, with growing layers of meta - I saw a double bluff that was just posted as Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU], and I think there's even triple bluffs...