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Mod Note: I would like to remind folks that while discussion of social phenomena within our hobby is usually fair game, discussion and/or commentary of real-world politics and religion are not. There have already been a couple of steps over the line, including in the OP itself. Please do not...

There was no "hacking" involved. There was merely an attempt to control who was nominated for Hugo awards by presenting a slate of candidates, and having supporters all nominate that slate, to concentrate voting power. While they managed to stack the nominations a couple of times, it wasn't...

By them coming to have a strongly negative position. Hating isn't about being informed.

Yeah, that scans.

This is regarding "Brand New Day", the new film.

Mod Note: Somehow, through some unfathomable mental process, you got the idea that referencing real-world terrorism was going to be a good idea. It was not. You're done in this discussion.

Text isn't cooler. These boards are text, and we need humans dedicated to acting as moderating influences because even small things blow up. Text was the basic medium of the Edition Wars. Text can get very, very hot. Text lacks the basic human social cues humans normally use to guage intent...

You realize that's not what is being said here, right? You recognize that you are misrepresenting other people's positions? Because, what I would say is, "This whole thing is too important to leave to be decided by people who don't know the technical aspects of the issues, and implemented by...

I would imagine the most overall accurate answer is, "Depends on how hard you press the characters."

Sure. And, of course, since they don't talk about Uncle Ben, we don't know one way or the other. I just think that, if he'd gotten that speech before, it gets really weird coming from Aunt May just there.

So, this is true if you are approaching these games in a traditional mode. Then, metacurrency is just another resource, and you spend it to make your life easier. If you have the narrative bug in your play, though, then their dramatic use becomes more clear. They are for the times when ou...

With Holland and Ruffalo in the movie, it is a wonder they haven't revealed the entire script by now.

I think we assumed it, but then I revised that. Getting two doses of the same phrase, from two dying people, would be weird, doubly so given how they don't mention Uncle Ben, like almost ever, in the movies. In the MCU I take it that moment is delayed, and is with May, not Ben.

Jimmy Kimmel: So, you're not in the movie? Charlie Cox (smiling) No. Kimmel: You say no? Okay. Cox: If I was in the movie, I would also also say no, to be clear. Kimmel: So you might be lying right now. Cox: Yes. But I'm not in the movie. I could be lying, but I'm not.

Well, remember, in the MCU, he didn't get ,"With great power comes great responsibility," until his Aunt dies. That part of his origin wasn't skipped, it was delayed. He's only now really grasping the depth of what consequences can be for a superhero.