Of course Stormtrooper armor does something: it increases all Strength codes by 1D for damage purposes only and reduces Dexterity codes by the same die.

OMG YES! Somebody gif'd it already. Just in time for the party! COOKIES!!!

TV Bronn is one of my favorite characters. Which means he's dying this season.

I think you missed Joe S.'s point. Could be wrong but as I read it, he was asking whether it's possible that Obi-Wan contacted the Empire, knowing they would come in, kill off Owen and Beru and wreck the farm, and leave Luke with really no choice but to go off on his adventure.

I see you've read his book

Three rings for the Sporty-kids, under the sky,

Here's a photo of Aiden outside of his school.

"Where's David Bowie?"

One of my brothers, who worked at a hobby shop in NYC at this time—and had an intentionally off-putting Sid Vicious look going on—was asked to run a Dungeons & Dragons session for a Geraldo Rivera special about the unholy perils of D&D. It sounds like him and his friends either gave Rivera's crew too much of a bad…

Huge fan of Brooker. Welcome America enjoy :)

"Obviously life isn't the same as it was when these sayings came about"

No good word for the Ventures? Rusty Venture lives in the shadow of his overachiever father (as well as PTSD from various childhood adventures). He is also now eclipsed by his twin brother Jonas Jr. Absent father to two socially-stunted sons- who were actually a batch of clones, since he kept losing them to various…

Own grandfather. Baboom.

I had this! Here's a scanned photo I found from when I was a kid in the early 90s re-creating the Battle of Hoth in my front yard with 70s/80s Star Wars toys

Black Mirror keeps being one of the best shows on TV over and over again.

They just got carried away because they're so concerned about ethics in journalism.

"I don't feel like doing that thing. Oh, I know what'll work, looking at LH!" Every. damn. day.

It was never a fair fight between fundamentalist Christianity and D&D. One was a dangerous system full of dark mysticism and threats to warp a young mind beyond repair, and the other was a tabletop RPG.