Recent content by Suncatcher

Honestly I loved the credit sequence fake-out. There I was, having just finished chapter 20 and the second big end-of-act boss fight, ready to continue my journey, when suddenly the credits start to roll. And I'm starting to really worry because there were so many questions left unanswered, so...

There are a lot of problems with the ending. It cuts all the foreshadowing, all the characterization of the Reapers, everything that was built up over the story off at the ground and replaces them with something that retroactively makes all the hints and all your theories bullshit for no...

Psychopathy doesn't cause blackouts. A psychopath wouldn't stop in the middle of cleaning up, horrified, and go to the authorities, they would probably finish up and pretend nothing happened or start formulating a cover story. The kid's definitely crazy, maybe some sort of schizophrenia? There's...

Broken family, blacking out, turning himself in to the authorities after figuring out what happened... Sounds like genuine insanity to me. Damn tragic, but almost certainly unrelated to the game. Edit: the house doesn't even have a computer in it, and this story is roughly 70% sensationalist...

There are some who can do it. Several in fact. I think that the real problem is that few directors (or writers, or actors) nowadays actually have any idea how the things they portray are supposed to work. They add shaky cam, for example, to make you feel like it's real and visceral and you're in...

Just out of curiosity, is there some memetic link between ponies and atheism that I missed, or are people just tossing another 'acceptable target' label on the classic Euphoric Guy image?

Fun fact: the fedora is named after Princess Fedora, a character in the opera named after her who wore that style of hat as part of her generally (socially unacceptable at the time) masculine style of dress. It quickly became a feminist symbol, throwing off the impractical styles women were...

I'm going to have to second Attack on Titan. I can see why it became so popular, it does a lot of generic 'awesome' things, but the pacing is shit, there's almost no creativity involved... It's a psychological show where the characters are flat caricatures instead of realistic people. It's a...

There are two kinds of people who might try to "shoot to disable". First, is the incredible master marksmen you see in movies, who may or may not exist in the real world (reports are hazy). Second, is people who don't know how guns work. The first thing you learn when training with a firearm...

25 years old; I've never really seen the point of getting drunk, high, or stoned. I like staying lucid most of the time, I don't want to risk doing something stupid when I'm not really in control of myself, etc. And if I wanted an altered mental state, I could just skip sleeping for a couple of...

EA's business model has always seemed to be to get every penny they can out of every customer. Which gives you a huge amount of money if the number of customers is a constant, like it almost was in the days when the internet wasn't really a thing and there weren't many other options around. It...

In the long run, if two groups compete for resources and cannot relate to each other, conflict is inevitable. It's why Homo Sapiens is around today and Neanderthals are not. It's the cause of most wars between humans, limited resources everybody wants, combined with national or religious...

You'd still need enough nutrients to keep your brain healthy if you did anything less than full personality upload, so food will probably never become entirely obsolete. In fact it seems likely that the easiest way to power partially converted people would be through a food-powered internal...

What are the skill levels involved? What tactics are used? What armor are they wearing? What's the terrain like, and what are the starting positions? What's the goal of the confrontation? There is never an "objectively better" weapon. Everything depends on how, when, where, and why it is used...

As far as I'm concerned, the body is just life support, sensors, transportation, and tools equipped by the brain. That brain however is something more complex than anything we'll understand in the near future and more capable than any comparable machine we're likely to make for centuries at...