This is fascinating, and some of those photos are mind-bending. Wow.

I bet this one could handle it on his own.

Really? I hadn't heard that. Very interesting. Thanks for the info, now I have to adjust my worldview slightly =)

Think about it: if someone really did tie three people to stakes in the middle of Central Park and lit them on fire, how many people do you think would intervene?

Came here to post the Geth. Was not disappointed. =)

These are all excellent points. Excuse me while I distribute this article to my social networks. =)

That was almost exactly my thought. When the brain hits the "post-ictal" state it really does sound like whimpering. :/

Yeah, this one is key. My grocery bill can vary by as much as $15 depending on whether I go before or after lunch...

Oh yeah, no need to apologize. It's stuck in my head because I'm close to someone on the autism spectrum who also thinks it's bunk. =)

Autism, not Down's. But still hogwash, regardless.

I agree, it did get a bit repetitive, but the fact is that the book is basically a mea culpa from a man who unintentionally perpetrated and promoted evil and didn't even get it until later.

Only slightly off-topic: I believe that all high school students should be forced to read The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo. It's the Stanford Prison Experiment as related by the guy who ran it, and it's equal parts informative and horrifying, but I'm sure someone would cry about how we're hurting the childrens'…

I initially misread "Sengoku" as "Son goku" and thought I was coming here to see DBZ characters dressed up as Bat-folk.

That's pretty fascinating, actually, and very well analyzed.

OMG is that Peter Dinklage?!

Is that Peter Dinklage?

I'm having a problem. When I saw the first Hobbit flick last year, I thought Thorin's casting and character design were brilliant.

I've speculated on more than one occasion that ASoIaF is actually a deconstruction of the 'archetypical' fantasy. The rebels rise up against the White Prince, the hero of the story, because of his evil father, and instead of winning the day and going on to bring peace and love to his kingdoms, Prince Charming dies…

That can make it difficult, for sure. If you've got the ability to armor yourself against the worst that the Internet can bring to bear, it might be worth looking for critiques on reddit in /r/fantasywriters. I know they do fiction critiques over there, and while I'm not a regular, I drop in occasionally.

I love how a whole bunch of people on this thread are commenting that it sounds like Indo-European languages that they're familiar with, and yet everyone seems to take their individual experience as meaning that it can't possibly be even remotely accurate. =)