To fully use all the rules, you almost need two GMs, especially during matrix runs.

My Cyberheart has a wifi connection? Why?!?!

All Chuck Austen needs to be retconned. ALL OF IT.

I think there's still no consensus on which dinos had them, how they manifested, and what they looked like

When Hollywood sticks to an stereoype it stick like them like a motherfucker. Yet you can bet in your lifetime that you will never see a major film about the lives of Harriet Tubman or Mary Elisabeth Bowser.

One of the biggest ironies about the RPG panic was that D&D creator Gary Gygax was a devout Christian who refused to celebrate Christmas because he thought it was a pagan holiday:

At least it makes it completely credible that nobody believes her.

I spoke to a guy who is utterly convinced that the Northern Rocky Mountain Grey Wolves reintroduced in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming are:

Yeah, but in all fairness, half the time when you open the box the cats are alive.

<3 Loved io9 for a long time but your, Annalee, and Charlie's tributes to Serenada today have been incredibly sweet.

IIRC, samurai were allowed to kill peasants in the street for stuff like being rude, so there was definitely some using it for giggles going on there, too. A lot of the whole "honorable code" stuff, both in Europe and Japan was, as I understand it, basically a legend told by later generations.

Additionally, there are plenty of examples of samurai who, in times of war, were more than willing to desert their present master for someone who appeared to be winning at the time.

amen, history degree here. seriously, the romanticism associated with this rivals europe's obsession with idealized chivalry. most of the time it did not exist. samurai romanticism was a product of Tokugawa era samurai who no longer needed to fight and die romanticizing the past and WW2 era Japanese and military…

About the first part of your comment: it's not just the combat drama, but staging in general that would make the presence of seatbelts a boring addition to the series. Imagine if, rather than tugging on his tunic each time Picard stood, he merely unbuckled a seatbelt? Think of all the times the crew stand and sit…

I've been playing Civilization: Beyond Earth (and playing a multiplayer PBeM game at that!) on PC and Fifa 15 on Xbox360.
And in between those Champions Online and SWTOR which I'm still really enjoying.

Next week I'll get Dragon Age: Inquisition. I played a preview and it was good.
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No one is offering shit. They are dictating what you get at a hideous markup. There is a difference.

Of course, we're all talking about a show whose opening scene last week ended up with Gordon and Cobblepot talking on a busy city street, as evidenced by the production conspicuously shining lights in 'turning/passing car' fashion and audio of traffic ... despite ever seeing a single car on the street.

I'm glad someone brought up that point. Amy/Rory's relationship always bugged me because of how manipulative she was to both Rory and the Doctor, but everyone always said they had such a great love. Now we get to Clara and first her and the Doctor sorta had a thing which was weird. Now every week he's talking down to…

I agree. I'm sick of Moffat's run. I enjoy the previous episodes of this series, but episode came out of nowhere, went nowhere, and diminished both Pink and the Doctor. And if it turns out Clara is the Doctor's mother I shall be quite cross. As for the ambiguous, was it real not not thing with the bed, I know some…