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I know it's been a few weeks but I just have to ask: why would ginger espresso be any more bitter than regular espresso? I'm not a coffee drinker, so maybe the combination brings out the coffee's bitterness, but Ginger is spicy, not bitter. Or is this one of those things like how cilantro tastes lik...

I didn't expect the Gazorpazorp episode to rate so poorly. Not that I thought I was especially good, just that it seemed okayish in my memory. I will say, though, that I'm not sure what a non-political lens for examining gender roles would even be. Isn't it inherently political? I suppose you could ...

In fact, I find it laughable that it's supposed to be open to interpretation, so that the viewer can make up their own mind, when it is so very clearly, demonstrably, wrong on all counts. It's like having a society where every second child is ritually sacrificed to appease a spider-god, but we're n...

So, I get where Chuck is coming from with the euthanasia thing... Clearly, this isn't about someone who's in pain wanting to end his life. But like... It is obviously, nakedly, directly, literally about a society that believes that they're preventing suffering through this process. Now, this is some...

Except statements like "I see the thing. I accept that it's in the story." betray what you're really pushing, no amount of pretending otherwise is gonna put the genie back in the bottle. I see right through it. It's in the story whether or not you want it to be. 1. Representation is more valuable t...

Walter Peck was obviously wrong. He just happened to be wrong in the exact right way to stumble upon a real danger that he had no idea existed. Through no merit of his own, the target of his ire just happened to be doing something that presented a potential danger to the city, and then due to his ca...

Holy shit my dude it's literally just applying subjective critique to world building. Why do you think I keep bringing up subjectivity over and over again? Because it's the only way to excuse your flimsy ideas. Honestly, this is a poor interpretation that ignores what I actually said to engage in w...

Subjectivity doesn't mean no analysis can be done. Sure, but Freeverse's doctrine does. Holy shit my dude it's literally just applying subjective critique to world building. Why do you think I keep bringing up subjectivity over and over again? Actually, the real world is more important than stories...

Subjectivity doesn't mean no analysis can be done. It just means that the analysis will be based on certain premises that not everyone will agree on. An objective analysis begins with certain indisputable facts (for example, an airplane needs X amount of lift relative to weight in order to achieve ...

Honestly, one of the reasons I have a problem with that kind of thinking is that it tends to be dismissive of representation, which I consider to be quite a good thing in general. Sure, but you shouldn't break your story or setting for it, which is my point. If something doesn't fit, it doesn't fit...