Recent content by Cor Azer

A note about costs for cameras - those would likely be borne by the venues not the conventions directly. Convention costs would go up, but likely spread across multiple conventions and events rather than falling on just one or two. Security personel would be on a per convention basis, but...

I don't have a citation, but did you read dannyalcatraz's post (I'll include just below this paragraph)? He's clearly seen industry numbers that do support it (although I don't know if those numbers are public). Well, there's a special hell for those who talk in the theatre, so nobody's going...

To be fair, there is symmetry - both PCs and NPCs can score critical hits.

Is the 'new' high priest of Loki smart enough to *not* fight, because otherwise she violates the rules of the gathering, potentially removing Loki's vote. And is Roy still considered her bodyguard? If he is, he can still kill her - preferably after the other undead are dealt with (and she's...

To be honest, all things considered, the rate of new strips is perfectly acceptable and understandable; after all, most of us pay nothing for what he's offering us. I think it feels longer though because the group is somewhat split up, so while we may see a strip at a reasonable rate, several...

I've always seen it as a job/training title. The EU noted several groups that used the Force without counting as Jedi or Sith, notably the Witches of Dathomir.

At the risk of losing, I'm pretty sure it is just tribalism - everyone* wants their own likes validated, and to be shown that they picked a winner. Happens in commercial products. Happens in sports. Happens in entertainment. To some degree, it also creates a shared experience (which reinforces...

Is not a common refrain: you may say what you like, but I don't have to give you the soapbox

I'm curious how you reconcile this tendency with your stated practice/belief of using people's thoughts on transgender rights in comparison with their thoughts on a completely unrelated psychologic disorder? Because it certainly sounds like you'd be engaging in psychoanalyzing of others in...

Illustrative how? Because what you seem to be implying is that how someone feels about something that decades of research has shown to not be in any way a psychological disorder should have some sort of bearing on how they feel about a completely unrelated psychological disorder.

Maybe Axanar strays *too far* from Star Trek lore, and is thus becoming conpetition. The other fan films generally continue the adventures of the Enterprise or its crew, which in turn promotes the original Enterprise adventures. My understanding is that Axanar is based on a stray few lines about...

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108554.html 72% white (in 2010) is a far cry from endangered minority.

Oh, for sure, ethnicity in some contexts is relevant. I specifically meant why is it relevant in this case (ie, given that no ethnicity has been stated for Hermione, let alone skin colour).

Why the focus on 'ethnic English (or Scot, or Welsh, or Irish)', except as a means to move the goalposts? Hermione's ethnicity was never stated in the books. Her nationality is apparently British (I surmise - I've not read the books, but it sounds like her parents were relatively affluent...

Yes, because "gender" is a noun and "to gender" a verb. To change them into adjectives (like transgender), you use the past participle of the verb (gendered).