Holy crap - did I just f*ck Piper? And did I get a perk for doing it? Was just trying to get some sleep and let a radiation storm pass and bam, she wakes up next to me and I get some kind of “f*cked your companion” perk.

I can’t help but think this is part of some huge covert push to once and for all eliminate physical media. You’re basically forcing gamers to spend the same amount of time downloading data for a game you have on disc as you do if you just download it straight from the X-Box store. Plus, if you download, you don’t have…

Audible Credit Day is the best day of the month! Is it possible that Audible is too good? Between their daily deals, their sales, my monthly credit, and a ton of classics you can pick up for around $2 or less, I now have backlog of some 50 audiobooks. Between my Kindle bookshelf with a backlog of more than 200…

Hide and Creep did not infect Leeds, AL - it was Thorsby, AL. Well, at least that's where it was filmed. Not that anyone cares really but Thorsby deserves some infected love. And yes, it was named after the Norse god Thor (settled by Norwegian immigrants in the early 20th).

I taught high school English and debate for 8 years. The year my oldest son was old enough to start attending school I resigned, took a job in another industry, and made the decision to homeschool all of my children. I can assure you that my children along with 90-95% of the other homeschool children that we know…

Show me one public school where this text is used I will shut up. This doesn't even look like a science textbook - it looks more like some kind of basic theology. But I suppose it has the shock value necessary. And believe me, I'm not arguing for or against the content - but I find it strange that in article so…

I challenge you to show me a single public school system that uses this book or teaches this kind of material in Tennessee or anywhere else. Furthermore, I would challenge you to find a single piece of statistical evidence that links the teaching of creationism in a few private schools (assuming you can’t find a…

Why is this such a big deal - what are you talking about here, percentage wise? Last I checked homeschoolers only made up about 1.5% of the school aged population. Private schools that are specifically Christian are what, about 3.5%? So we're talking about, at most, 5.5% of school aged children that use faith based…

It has been interesting to watch the roles that television and film have occupied for the better part of century completely reverse. When I was growing up television always seemed like a cheaper, watered down version of the magic one experienced at the movies. From the original Battlestar Galactica that looked and…

Refreshing to see a few readers who aren't as moon eyed over Rothfuss as many. I've read the first two books a couple of times and while I find most of it enjoyable it there are elements of the story that seem a little too comfortable or safe if that makes any sense. It's almost like reading a young adult series…

Here's an idea, come out and tell Denna you're in love with her and stop with all the Ross & Rachel will-they won't-they crap. The trend toward interjecting 20th century teenage first world problems into fantasy needs to go away. This would be a solid fantasy series if it weren't for all the Disney channel nonsense.

Although I am a huge fan of Star Trek and have been for eons I can appreciate why the series needed a fresh start and an opportunity to build a new audience. I gave the first the film a wide pass while most Trekkers universally condemned Abrams vision as being decidedly non-Trek. Star Trek was a solid action film…

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Am I wrong in thinking these little killers should have been chopped up into little pieces, incinerated, then their burned little corpses buried?

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Yeah - Ready Player One came out in 2011. The Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) narrated audiobook of Ready Player One was imho the best audiobook release of 2011.

Railsea by China Mieville, Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds would make my short list. I also really dug Further Beyond the Threshold by Chris Robertson.

How about all of Revolution until I got sick of the teenage hormone angst and quit watching?

Well yeah, I thought it odd when they chose to make a sequel to Cars when most agreed that Cars was the weakest of all the Pixar films. The Incredibles remains my favorite Pixar film and if any of their films warrants a sequel (with Brad Bird at the helm), it's The Incredibles.

So you guys really do read Playboy for the articles.