Accurate.

Oh, we’ll find out in a year or two.

Mostly written, video, audio records and also living memory. Are you fucking twelve?

I don’t know whether to be dismayed or amazed.

The vuvuzela is not an instrument any more than “accidentally backing over the family cat” is a musical performance.

I can tell you have not moved to Brooklyn by the way you ask that question.

I still don’t know why they didn’t get Crystal in to do the resurrection. They had established that Melisandre was a dead ringer for his Princess Bride wife in the prior episode and they wouldn’t even need to put any make-up on him this time.

I never played II, but I’ve been told it’s actually better than III on the economics and finicky planning stuff. RRT III is just so well-made, though, except for the regrettable integration of GameSpy to power the multiplayer. A friend and I got multiplayer working as between us a few years back (TCP/IP I think?), and…

Railroad Tycoon III does a better job. It is, to this day, the best and most intuitive primer in how corporate finance works and how corporations make money. To give an example, in OTC, debt just happens when you don’t have enough of a given resource and have to buy it on the open market. Even if you have cash, the…

Okay, now I’ve played it. It’s like Startopia with the priorities reversed. Startopia was mostly about sandboxing and kind of dodgy RTS combat. This is mostly about resource optimization and trading, with some underdeveloped and clunky “combat” in the form of industrial sabotage and dirty tricks.

I got this, and it’s actually like a kind of disappointing version of Railroad Tycoon III’s multiplayer. Not that it’s a bad game—I enjoy playing it—but the developers really missed the boat when they made “debt” a weird autonomous concept that ticks involuntarily in the background, and deprived you of any way to…

Are you thinking of Utopia, for the SNES? This doesn’t sound much like Startopia at all to me, other than the space theme and presence of trading.

How old were you then/now? That makes a big difference, too, though not as much as regularly swimming.

No, this is helpful, and I get the notifications so it doesn’t matter that Gawker’s ridiculously censorious commenting system hides your comment from everyone else in spite of it being literally the only non-idiotic (and actually quite helpful and intelligent) reply I’ve received.

God, Jezebel commenters are the dumbest of the fucking dumb. I’ll never understand how you illiterates post so much.

No, I know how weed generally affects people, which is all that’s relevant to the conversation. I’ve known guys who can drink an unbelievable amount function at a very-nearly-sober level. That doesn’t mean that, as a rule, people should be drinking whisky at work (though, of course, they did in some environments in…

You keep saying that, and it continues to be factually inaccurate. I do not have “no idea.” I have an idea formed over years of interacting with people who use marijuana. I am baffled at this continued insistence that unless I have the subjective experience of being high, I am barred from a discussion of whether weed…

I am pro-legalization, and have been for literally decades. I have also been around a lot of people who smoke. I have yet to encounter one whom I actually know—i.e. have experience with stoned and sober—who I didn’t notice was stoned when stoned.

He is literally nobility. Lesser nobility, but nobility. House Payne is a Lannister vassal with holdings in the Westerlands. These aren’t touchy-feely concepts—medieval law (which GoT does a relatively good job of following) marks a clear delineation between noble and non-noble persons.

Okay, and if someone shows me proof of that, I’m happy to consider it. I’ve been around a lot of people who smoke—including people who think that no one can tell when they’re stoned—and I have stated my opinion. P.S. We can tell when you’re stoned.