The past didn’t change in this episode.

There’s a difference between keeping them in case they can be cured, and keeping them knowing no cure is possible but believing their immortality is worth something. If anything, it reminds me more of the Governor, who believed that something of the original person could remain in the zombie even before it was cured.…

Hodor had a vision of his future. Visions and prophecies have been part of the story since always.

With the success of VR still uncertain, fragmenting the market is a bad idea.

Not Cameron himself, but his friends in various industries, especially Murdoch’s media ones who hate competition from the BBC. This recipe thing will mostly benefit the big supermarkets, like Sainsburys. Sainsburys has a website called “taste.co.uk” waiting for this to happen. They’ll use it to sell us ingredients.

So when Jack Whitehall backed her up, you think he was lying too?

That’s not the same at all. I’m guessing not, and I’ll also guess he doesn’t mind movies and TV shows being third person too. Games are different. The last thing I want, when I’m playing a game, is to feel that I am watching a movie or reading a book.

We can’t complain about the politics until we start sending good songs. The most recent decent one was Jade, which came 5th as I recall, a respectable showing. I have heard this year’s and it is mundane, almost school-boy. It’s less quirky and interesting than last year’s jazz type thing, and I enjoyed it less than…

I don’t get your first point. If Bucky had been taken somewhere else, then he’d have infiltrated that other place. Possibly with the same method, albeit attacking a different power station.

Personally I am hoping for some fluffy jumpers.

The Winter Soldier is not being taken out to the range for practice sessions. He’s been frozen indefinitely, in a remote and secret place, because he is too dangerous to be allowed to walk around. I doubt we’ll ever see him awake again.

Cap wasn’t just saving Bucky: he was saving the SWAT team. If Bucky had been evil, then Cap knew that sending a normal SWAT team against him would get the SWAT team killed. So this was a text-book example of where the Avengers need to be deployed but the Accords won’t deploy them. It counts just as much as imprisoning…

There’s more to Cap than protecting Bucky, though. First is knowing that anyone else that tries to take Bucky down will likely get killed. It needs at least an Avenger to have a chance, and the Accords were preventing that. Cap went after Bucky himself to save lives of other people, not (just) Bucky. Later, it becomes…

I am not getting your point.

Aurora made me angry, but mostly in a good way. For what it’s worth, it’s probably the better novel. I don’t really agree with the science of it, in that I think to prey upon humans you really need to co-evolve with humans. Also, its protagonists gave up really quickly. Still, I think it is an important book. It makes…

How do you choose between Seveneves and Auroa?

If it doesn’t look cool, nobody will want to go to Mars, and his life project will be wasted.

It’s Mars. Elon Musk wants to put a million people on Mars. Those other environments you mention don’t matter to him. Mars is the one. Does that simplify things for you?

The Vive does room scale and the motion-tracked controllers now. Those two things are awsome and are what VR should be about, at least for some people. I hope your friend does get his Vive, because it is so much more. Once you’ve experienced it, the current Rift looks a lot compelling, unless you are primarily…

That was my thought also. I’d go further and say that sometimes a goal of bullying is to cause that change in behaviour. The attacks against Sarkeesian are at least partly an attempt to discourage her from writing about games in the way she does, and to discourage others from doing the same thing.