Being an atheist is an intellectual pose?

Sincere question: What does it help?

Uncut cynicism. Sounds like fun! Does it only burn going down, or on the way back up too?

Fair. Sarcasm doesn't read clearly over the Interweb so my apologies. (I saw that sentiment nearly verbatim elsewhere in the thread, and it wasn't clear there either, fwiw.)

Being judged unfairly is not a good reason to act badly. I think the article is tripe but this sentiment of "why bother trying if people are mean?" is pretty poisonous.

If you've ever wandered over to the gawker-verse (io9, Jezebel, Gizmodo, The Root, etc.), Kinja is the publication/comment system they use (as opposed to Disqus, for example).

I haven't been around here nearly long enough to assess that judgment usefully, but hey, from what I hear the whole place is getting Kinja'd imminently anyway.

That escalated quickly.

She's damn sharp. Now if only someone would tell her that at her level (insanely successful author that most people have at least heard of) there is no such thing as the sci-fi ghetto and it's ok to admit that some of your works do in fact fit that genre.

This…is a good point. If this were a random vanilla media critic venture, it would be way out of left field and gratuitous, but there is a wheelhouse and this is in it.

And there will be overly lush and indulgent descriptions of how Thoros tastes.

He basically has a wife, adopted a child, has won some glory (killed a White Walker and a Thenn!), and is not living at his post. Now his ancestral lands have just become available, and by coincidence he has deeply ingratiated himself to the new conqueror's favorite love pet by curing his greyscale.

When seven ride past Eastwatch, six will die. Jorah is the one that has to make it, because he humanizes her. He'll come back just as she's about to leap off the deep end.

When Davos is pointed, he makes a point.

If she's Henry Tudor, and Cersei's Richard III, that makes Jon Snow…Elizabeth York?

Don't forget to stick the flounce!

Quite so. Though, they also are talked about as quite intelligent and seem to discern at the least between their mommy-queen and other possibly edible morsels. Tyrion surviving his first encounter was supposed to be something of a demonstration that while they can tell the differences between people, they can also…

Dany might not have had a clear look at Bronn, but Drogon might've, and who knows how much of a grudge he'd hold. Ever accidentally stepped on a cat's paw? They harbor that hate for years, and they don't even breathe fire (they prefer to believe they can kill you with a stare).

I suppose the only significant point was that cjm69 was correct, and you were not. Otherwise, you'd indeed have quite a complaint to file. Arguments can be as internally consistent and intricate as you like, and they can address every point an opponent makes, but if they're wrong none of that matters.

I did like the gimbal it was mounted on, as it made the original demonstration on the skull retroactively way less silly. "Ha, ha, it works on dead, non-flying dragons standing still. How useful!" […] "Huh, so that's clever."