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I was gonna be one of the people insisting that Evangelion's ending didn't work. =P It's a bizarre specimen, to be sure, and these days I actually really like Evangelion's weirdness, but End of Evangelion was a legendarily bad movie, and while I like the TV ending a lot more, it's still...

The sexual politics of this show make me deeply uncomfortable. The show isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, and I'll concede to admitting that it has been pretty entertaining, but the way the show handles its female characters feels more retrograde than I'm used to for Anime; and...

Neither, and Both. The game barely made a financial profit as-is, in spite of however many copies it sold. They didn't have the luxury of sacrificing half their user base solely to make a gameplay style that actually made sense and worked.

I'm in a little too late to stop anyone accusing the game of being pretentious, but let me put it this way: The game is NOT pretentious, and if you think it is, then you don't know the meaning of pretentious. It is quite self-serious, but self-serious != pretentious. I disagree that the...

Honestly? My complaint is now solely directed at your choice of the word "functionally", because, while you probably understand the concept, the people who don't (and refuse to understand it) are going to look at that and say "Oh, they're functionally the same, but not the same." So I guess...

This is probably my biggest pet peeve, right next to people mixing up the usage of their/they're/there or your/you're. 0.999_ DOES equal 1. It's not "So close it doesn't matter", it's not "an infinitely small distance from 1", it's equal. Ask any professor of mathematics. The reason people...

The explanation I heard (may not be accurate) is that Japan (And many other eastern cultures) treats sexuality differently than we do. Sex is treated less in terms of morality (Not to say morality isn't a factor, just that it is less so) and more in terms of societal responsibility. Combined...

Watch the English dub of Endless Eight. Hearing Crispin Freeman ad-lib his lines is the sole saving grace of that nightmare. Edit: "CANST THOU NOT SEE THE NO DIVING SIGN????!"

Valid point. My only real problem with Disappearance was it's sheer length, which was probably just a little too much. (It's currently ranked as the #8 longest animated movie ever created!)

Good article, but you're gonna be preaching to the choir. Either people already know this stuff, or they're not going to be willing to change their beliefs to acknowledge your facts.

I really loved this incarnation of the game, but mostly because the stuff that Yahtzee hated about it are things that I personally am pretty much a sucker for. Making Zelda the quasi-tsundere love interest to link was pretty much what sold me. I don't know that we can get sidekicks more...

Suzumiya Haruhi is my favorite, followed by Ouran High School Host Club. Third is generally a tie, between Nichijou and Azumanga Daioh depending on what mood I'm in. Special mentions go to Evangelion and Death Note, which were both series I liked, but would be hard-pressed to call them...

Not quite. Basically, blood types A and B produce certain proteins (Blood type O people produce neither of those proteins), and if you aren't that blood type, then you develop a reaction to those proteins. So we get a few unusual results from trying to give one blood type to someone of a...

I dunno, that "time freezing bug" in Fable I was a hell of a lot of fun to exploit. It, and the fact that the mana shield was so blatantly broken that it alone had a huge impact on how the game was played, probably had a net effect of increasing the replay value of that game by a factor of 2 or...

I'll give you that he didn't discuss the graphics (though since graphics are really not an essential aspect of a game I'm not sure what point you're making) but I seem to recall him harping on about the game play and story quite a bit. His complaints were, IIRC, about the puzzles taking a...