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Sweet, more wacky murder-solving action.

>Phoenix Wright, protagonist of the previous games is up for murder
Um.

>is not a morally dubious mentor
That's kinda cool, actually.

>"loves Grape Juice", which comes in big green bottles in wooden crates and is counterindicated by his doctor
Um.

>has a daughter who was apparently around during the previous games but was never mentioned
WHAT

>daughter is addorable
HNNNG

>someone stole her panties
Um.

>meet family of gangsters
>openly describe themselves as gangsters
>openly threaten to kill others to people they met minutes ago
Um.

>meet "rock star" prettyboy
>apparently flirts with Wright's 15-year old daughter
Um.

>meet Ema Skye from the first game's DS-only bonus mission
Well, that's nice.
>She's cold and distant
>her "haughty" animation seems to be based on Fransika von Karma from the older games
Oh, well, they reused animations. The series does that all the ti--
>"Frankie" has a close friendship with another female character in the series
>fanbase says they're in a relationship
>Skye just got back from Europe
>Ms. von Karma is German
>Skye seems entirely unaffected by the aforementioned prettyboy

Um.
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http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/11/14/patient-bw-dob-2161971/

As I recall, Bruce's injuries from Bane breaking his back were explained by a car accident, at least in the Knightfall novelization. Also in that novel, the doctor treating him noted how incongruous his injuries were with the "dangerous games" of his "youth" he claimed as the cause. The implication is that he simply doesn't go to the hospital very often.

I'm not sure why he wouldn't use several of the actual explanations as an excuse. Gotham is well known to have several criminals wielding dangerous chemicals running around. He could plausibly claim he got hit by some Fear Gas, then deny any requests for blood drawing. Everyone assumes he's on something besides Fear Gas, when he really doesn't want them to find evidence of exposure to other toxins and chemicals. There are legal measures, I presume, but he can afford the best lawyers in the world.

As for psychology, he has a ton of psychological experience, and could probably find a way to stick to his "profile" as Bruce Wayne, assuming he didn't already have it determined ahead of time.

I mean, half the article's premise is that Batman is unable to come up with plausible explanations, or doesn't have ones ready. Batman.

Dream:

Nov. 14th, 2011 11:27 am
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The Law and Order crew were intervening in unrest at my old high school, with Cyrus Lupo, Connie Rubirosa as a cop, and SWAT teams.

I was in it, and was getting harassed by one of those actors who's in everything playing secondary characters. He was the head of the SWAT teams.

He said to his guys that the people you have to watch out for aren't the Michael Westens (Burn Notice), but the The people who are Westen to Westen. Via dream logic, I understood that to mean if Mike's fanboys had their own fanboys. Think the Cutie Mark Crusaders from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, now imagine they had their own sidekicks. Or imagine these guys had their own imposters.



Heck, I doubt BN's Sugar could lead a Sunday School group through Disneyland. Just imagine what would happen if he started fooling around with automatic weapons. Imagine the narration.

"Look, when you're making an elaborate sting to take down a drug dealer, you need stealth, cunning, and something he wants. He wants drugs. We can use the drugs to get him into, like, a vulnerable position, and BAM! Leave him for the cops."
"Sugar, that's kinda vague."
"So we'll improvise. It always works for Mike!"
"But he's a guy who used to be a spy."
"Look, I know we're not as good as him, but how hard could it be?"
"Are you trying to get us killed?"
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JRPG fan says that people denigrate JRPGs for featuring androgynous prettyboys "if any character even vaguely resembles any other character who has ever existed.", while they themselves fawn over shooters "in which the main character is Unshaven Snarky Muscley Thirty-something White Dude with a Past #172."

I just quoted the two bits and added "Um.", so the person who made the post just responded "Shooters." Apparently, it's okay, because they're more specific in their generalizing.

Also, from person #2, a new challenger.

To display the hypocrisy of an argument, it is good to sho0w why it is hypocritic. In this case, if people keep complaining about the sameness of RPG characters, yet praise shooters (who also have the exact same "issue", if not stronger than RPGs do) then hypocrisy is pretty blatantly there.


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>google image search for "friendship is magic"
>find picture of 6-way orgy of the mane cast

INTERNETS!
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This guy from Something Awful both doubts the game will have a good story (because it's an FPS on the 360, ha, ha!), and says that part of the appeal of the original was that it didn't have an elaborate story.

Yes, that's right. While everyone is complaining about games being shallow, he thinks that the spirit of the original wouldn't be served best by having a deep story.

Even if they do come up with a great story, it seems like things would be heading in the wrong direction. A major part of the original game's eerie atmosphere can be attributed to the cold, detached point of view as you pitted the resources of a vast agency (and a handful of soldiers whose details came from your head) against the alien force. Giving the player a name and a storyline will narrow the scope.


I love how gamers constantly complain that games are unoriginal, but whenever an update or reboot is announced, they demand it needs to be exactly the same as the original, just "updated", which is about as vague as it gets. Not to mention that the gaming public, which largely has no idea what X-Com is, would complain if they had to command more "faceless soldiers" without any real character. What's wrong with wanting characters to be more than just disposable rookies in jumpsuits?
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The creator of a popular webcomic has made a parody by editing the text bubbles of a NSFW page.

The webcomic is Menage A 3, which is about a random nerdy guy who has two hot women show up to be his roommates. According to the Bad Webcomics Wiki, one is a bisexual rocker and the other is a ditzy, buxom French-Canadian.

This explains why the "parody" isn't actually funny, because Red Hood and the Outlaws is about a dorky guy who happens to be a competent crimefighter, his cool best friend, and the walking fanservice-blob known as Starfire. The "parody" can't make fun of that without effectively making fun of itself. It'd be like Ike Turner making a song about how bad Hank Pym's wifebeating is while he's still beating his wife.

If you think I'm joking, here, have the rocker stripping and jumping into bed with ma'amoiselle and sleeping on her boobs. With NSFW nudity and that horrible, horrible cat pillow.

You know how everyone hates Kender from Dragonlance because they "cutely" borrow other people's stuff and forget that they did because they have a different concept of property and short attention spans? (More NSFW analysis.) Rocker-grrrrrl has a flaw of tossing people into sexual situations and groping people. Y'know, just a little sexual harassment and assault and manipulation.

Ha ha, it's so wacky and lighthearted and not incredibly creepy at all and totally different from what the comic did to Starfire.
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Dear Tumblr; how about not making it so hard to find permalinks from the tags page. Specifically, make the little turned-down corner visible, not a rollover.

Ahem.

On Starfire: Red Hood and the Outlaws outroar
I’ve been reading a lot of reviews about Scott Lobdell’s run on the three misfits. Most of them were negative because of the concern for Starfire’s image in the new 52. I admit, I’m a bit sad that Lobdell made her memory warped if not dull on humans, as one of my Tumblr friends, sweet-tart said: “It’s the she can’t tell humans apart or doesn’t remember them and seems like she has NO emotional attachment to anyone. It’s definitely not the sex thing that bothers me. It’s that she doesn’t care about people like she used to. For me at least”

I was initially concerned with that, but after thinking about it again and again, in the history of DCU, Kori was defined by her relationships. THAT WAS HER WEAKNESS. I remember in an issue of Titans, Phobia said that her greatest fear was to be alone. She was a strong lady with a wreckage of relationships, the only relationship that seemed to work out was her friendship with Donna Troy, that got me infuriated a bit in the past.
Yep. Close personal relationships are a weakness now, and characters shouldn't have weaknesses.

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Assassin's Creed 2 EP1: The Life and Times of Desmond Miles - Spoiler Warning - Youtube


Spoiler Warning, in the video above, is mocking Ubisoft for making the protagonist Assassin's Creed a twenty-something white guy so most of their target audience can identify with him.

Funny thing; minority video game/comic fans say there aren't enough minorities to identify with all the time. Problem is, if you need someone to be like you to identify with them, wouldn't it be impossible for the white people to identify with anyone not-white, or cisgendered to identify with non-cis, or men to identify with women? Because I think we all know that doesn't happen. And even if it did, what makes the identification of the minority in question a greater priority than that of the majority? We're supposed to be equal here, right?

I'm not saying that it isn't a good idea to have minority characters. I'm just saying the "minority readers need to identify with them" is a terrible, terrible reason to do so. Superman is a white-collar white American with superpowers, and he is the world's most recognizable superhero. He's better known than Jesus Christ. Most of the world is not white, white-collar, American, or superpowered. As a general rule, if you can't identify with a character, and it's by accident, you have a case of plain old bad writing on your hands, not underrepresentation.
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"Honor Harrington 1: On Basilisk Station" French Cover

For that matter, compare even the original US cover and its French Counterpart for the gaudy jewels Baen US seems to favor. Did they decide that they needed something they could slap foil over to attract the neckbeards? Do they think American science-fiction fans have the same appetites as magpies? And why do the French covers consistently look just plain cooler than the western counterparts? I want a book I won't be ashamed to read in public, Baen.

Don't you read these books in ebook format?


Well, yes, but I've bought hard copies of some of them!

...Actually, the first Vorksagian omnibuses I have aren't half bad. The regular ones are often terrible, I'm told. Baen has standard to live down to, after all.
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http://mcity.livejournal.com/226076.html

I posted it on TVTropes "Strawman Has a Point" page, and someone responded saying that the point of the strip is to show how the XKCD char. is White-Knighting. Problem is, it's an ad hominem defense; you can't attack their stance, so you just attack their motivations.

I deleted the response, and the person added it right back. Now I'm off to explain what I just explained on the Ad Hominem page. See how they like that.
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10th result in Images was a motivator based on softcore Creeper Rule 34.

BLEEP EVERYTHING
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I heard about these books called the Vorkosagan Saga

I was all like "Baen, right? I'll just read 'em for free?"

I got to the end of the first half of CH and was all like "Man, this is too good! I have to give them money for this!"

Then I did.

Then I finished the second half of CH and moved onto the Young Miles Omnibus, which starts with TWA.

It's like someone combined Honor Harrington, made her flaws actual flaws, and then took Wooster and Jeeves and combined them all in the same character.

Good Omens and Maniac Magee, in that order, are still my favorite books, but Bujold is putting up some stiff competition.

If Cordelia's Honor was very good, this is sublime.

I can't even come up with a witty way to say it.

It's that good.

This is how I wanna write when I grow up.
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Both very good movies. Go see 'em!

HP7Pt2
Don't go see it if you didn't see the first half (I didn't) or you haven't read the books (I have). After a certain point in the film, it was like a rollercoaster reaching the top of the first hill, and you just have to hang on all the way to the denouement. I found myself dabbing at my eyes at one or two points. In a suitably manly fashion, of course.

Captain America
This is the first movie to actually feel like an Avengers movie, which is ironic, since there's only one Avenger. Between this, Iron Man 1/2, Thor, and Incredible Hulk, Marvel is 5 for 5 with their movies. Now if only DC would pick up the ball and figure out what the other guys are doing right.

Also, I like how unapologetically pulp-sci-fi the movie is. Why does Hydra's stuff glow? Because their power source glows, is why. You have a problem? DealWithIt.gif. These action figures ain't gonna sell themselves.
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I somehow managed to solve two puzzles entirely by accident, when I was in that state where you have both portals spitting you "up" so you just bounce up and down. I just randomly fired and ended up in the right place.

I don't even

EDIT: There's a plot detail the player can figure out before Glados does. I like to think that at that point, Chell stayed silent just to troll her.
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First Class
See it if you like superpowered bromance and sideburns.

Super 8
See it if you like lens flares, Spielberg circa 1982, and/or have a childlike sense of wonder and optimism.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
See it if you like explosions and giant robots and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's butt.

I'm not joking. That is literally her first shot in the film. Carly's a fairly decent character overall, but cripes, Bay, there are better ways to make up for The inadvertently racist-seeming Twins. The plot turned out more complex and mature than I expected from a Bay film (explosions, giant robots, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's boobs), so...that's a plus. And the climax was forty minutes. Again, not joking. The entire third act is the climax.
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>suddenly realize that Karkat's sign is Cancer
>and he's perpetually crabby

Hussie, you magnificent stallion.

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