Recent content by Valdez Leel

I always thought that the term "Fanboy" wasn't so much a criticism of the fact the person, "Has an opinion," so much as, "Has an opinion that comes from a purely emotional, irrational place and therefore cannot be in engaged with for the purposes of reasoned discourse." For example: I have a...

The sad thing being that now, more so than in any point in recent history, it's going to be very hard for young people to find themselves a meaningful place in the world.* With a stagnant economy, waning social mobility, and an ageing population - where power lies increasingly in the hands...

Bob, I have to disagree with your analysis somewhat. I don't think its the absence of sex that makes so many RomComs bad - so much the absence of 'actual' romanticism. Romance, going by its literary origins, was, to make a gross simplification, about grand excesses of emotion and radical...

I don't think it's a ridiculous claim to make that the writer may be cherry picking his examples when he lists only two Western RPG's (Mass Effect And Fable) as evidence of some all encompassing trend. Off the top of my head I can name more than four times as many games I've played that can't be...

While I think it's an interesting angle, I can't help but feel that this article presents a gross simplification. Baldurs Gate 2 (amongst many other WRPG's) was packed full of interesting companions with fully fleshed out back stories and many had sidequests that revolved around them...

This might be the most pleasant, reflective article you've ever written. I'd love to see more stuff from you in this vein. Good show.

Amen, Bob. Amen. A film should be judged on its merits - not on its choice in aesthetics. The "Realism" which these people idolise is just as much a construct as the fantastic workings of any soft sci-fi epic, and their irrational fetishism is equal to that of any of the geeks they show contempt...

A good selection. One thing I never got about District 9 was while everybody mentioned racism and apartheid in relation to the film no one, as far as I could see, discussed immigration as an issue that the film was exploring. The economic and social collapse of neighbouring Zimbabwe has...