I read the headline earlier, with no picture, and thought yeah he always looks like a bloated orange monster that tracks.
Actually seeing the pictures all I can think of is the training I did on FAST, literally the F is for face drooping, that old mother fucker is having a god damned stroke...
I agree with you in premise, there is a general trend to over lore in modern sci-fi. Things can't just be, they need some specific explanation.
This though, I didn't hate. It's always bothered me that aliens in sci-fi are just humans with shit on their face, their cultures are just aspects of our culture turned to the extreme, and every species' technology is around the same level.
Having a progenitor species that seeded the galaxy and that's why every intelligent species is basically the same is fine, basic but you know at least it makes sense and doesn't need to come up again.
Why are they the same, because a wizard did it essentially.
This planet is 100% magical, we've just let capitalists divide it up into tiny preserves for their own pleasure.
turtles all the way down...
I'm an idiot and it scares me the number of times i've been the "smartest person in the room"...
Such a good show.
I mean it does suck, but it sucks less than anything else we have.
It deters me lol
Cory Doctorow is a writer who I want to love, i like the plot descriptions of his work and he seems like a really smart and with it person, but his writing style just doesn't spark joy. It feels like work. IDK how to describe it, I just can't get in the flow with his writing.
Maybe I'm missing context on this, but halo slop?
Infinite came out 3 years ago and though they've done updates and general live service garbage there haven't been any major releases since. Halo isn't a yearly release schedule, charging full price for the same game every year like sports games, so i'm not seeing the slop...
You can buy a bluetooth speaker that sounds as good (if you don't need real stereo sound) and still have room in your pocket.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, re social constructs having some basis in reality, but the problem I have is the sort of appearance based aspect of it, most of the toughest most manly looking men I know are actually socially anxious teddy bears and the most "strength, willingness to physically protect others, usually valuing rationality over emotionality" people I know are 5'4 women.
Like the archetypes make sense, but the social construct is pointlessly gendered...