I am asking you to imagine a scenario where you never make a rape joke again, and then to imagine what you might lose because of that.

No, idiot. Here's an example: murder. Murder exists as a problem in society. Yet we still make jokes about it. Know why? Because murder is pretty unambiguously wrong, from a societal standpoint. Rape is just as unambiguously wrong as murder, however it's perpetrators tend to get away with it. We, as a society, appear…

What on Earth are you going to lose if for some reason your ability to make rape jokes is cancelled? Do you for some reason have a store of really quality rape jokes sitting up there in your brain? If you can't tell them, no one will ever know what a comic genius you are?

Okay, white straight cis male here. I really wish I could think of a nuanced rebuttal to your comment, but the only thing that comes to mind is "go fuck yourself. with a pineapple."

What on Earth are you going to lose if for some reason your ability to make rape jokes is cancelled? Do you for some reason have a store of really quality rape jokes sitting up there in your brain? If you can't tell them, no one will ever know what a comic genius you are?

This isn't a goddamn valuable debate. You live in a society. There is a social contract. You don't make jokes about the n-word. You don't make fun of Holocaust victims. If you're on Twitter, you don't joke about killing the president, and you don't make jokes about bomb threats when you're in line at the airport. All…

What on Earth are you going to lose if for some reason your ability to make rape jokes is cancelled? Do you for some reason have a store of really quality rape jokes sitting up there in your brain? If you can't tell them, no one will ever know what a comic genius you are?

I have, at the request of a friend, painted her and her brother in their costumes as The Joker and Catwoman (from when they went to LA for Halloween last year.)

Its a problem if the archenemy becomes... silly. The Silence were creepy. The Weeping Angels doubly so. The daleks are boring. They look boring. They act boring. Their origin and intentions have been so thoroughly explored that there is nothing new or interesting about them that is left to discover.

CLANG! $50 contribution got me exactly one crappy t-shirt and a horrible half-broken demo of what Neal Stephenson tried to call the greatest game ever.

To answer this question, I refer you to my previous commentary!

That's encouraging!

I loved this episode but maaaan, next episode is Daleks again.

She is a sweet kid, but if you threaten her loved ones, she'll shoot you in the face. That's probably the best use of a flare gun in literature, btw. SF or otherwise XD.

Spoilers for the book:

But will said solar powered cell-phones be bezel-less?

You have an extra artery?

It would be interesting to know why they initially thought that this test would kill people.

Second helmet looks like something Daft Punk would wear. I SUPER like it.

If clone wars was any indication, the tone will be kiddish overall for about a season and then start getting SERIOUS.