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For me, it’s Cthulhu and similar existentialist horror. Horror itself is fine, generally - it’s a broad genre and personal horror can be...

I think of myself as a very open minded gamer. I can enjoy playing just about any game as long as I can get on with the rest of the...

Yes. Mind control isn’t being persuasive or charismatic, or even psychological abuse, fraud, or gaslighting - we know how all of those...

I think we generally want heroes to be relatable. Superman is potentially highly unrelatable - he has all the power in the world...

Err, that seems backwards to me.

We clearly don't agree.

Nothing in that example is "mind control." It is trickery.

This is my stance exactly.

I find Bob a lot more relatable than a superrich alcoholic playboy.

Absolutely. Bob Reynolds is a wonderful and relatable character and in some ways the moral centre of the film. Yelena’s sense of being...

That’s because we assume everything we are allowed to use has a therapeutic function. We don’t get to use potassium cyanide or arsenic...

Yeah. To me even a "slight" use of mind control is beyond horrifyingly evil in and of itself. Permanently altering someone's mind in...

He's not wrong though. The difference between poison and medicine is often a matter of knowing when and how much to provide someone...

Just watched it. Way better than I was led to believe.

I think posts juxtapositing mind control versus killing are sort of missing the point. The idea isn't "Is mind control more evil.than...