Unless you're getting drowned in gallons of water every second, learn to enjoy rain showers. Tuck away your electronics, spread your arms, and enjoy the sprinkle. 20 minutes from now you'll just be complaining about how hot and muggy it is anyway, so you might as well be refreshed ahead of that.

The 'Copernicus' one is inspired design, the rest just aren't on the same level.

I'm reading that book again at this moment. I never understood this. Lots of interesting things happen! It's a better book than a lot of people give it credit for, IMO. Seems like people are salty because their favored characters are nowhere in sight for most of it, but the events that take place seem to be of rather…

They are splitting that book into two seasons. Looks like Season 3 will be dedicated to the build-up to and aftermath of the Red Wedding and Season 4 will be dedicated to the build up to the Purple Wedding and Tyrion's trial and escape, with the other storylines taking place alongside those events as they must.

I was under the impression that a mouse with the body curved over the top like that was terrible ergonomically.

Of course, Tywin Lannister would be privy to information about the shooting.

Yyyyep.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

People love the theory that the world is supported on trees and that Ash Lake is indeed 'below' the world.

How the #$@! does a Sonic water zone end up on a list of relaxing aquatic levels? Every one of them is a always blind-panic race against constantly-impending death!

Could be. It's really just the economics of scale for me. Look at something like Dwarf Fortress that runs individual simulations to an obscene degree and it works well for that game, but the intended focus is supposed to be more intimate and it's a wonderful thing. Multiply that by a factor of 1,000 and suddenly it's…

I don't disagree. There's relevant micro-sims, and irrelevant ones. I feel in this case the desire for an extreme level of individual granularity disposes of what I wish was still the intended focus of the game. Which is (supposed to be) city planning.

And the horrible punchline to the joke is—- we're building a city, not managing a household. All that individual simulation generates signal noise that I think is counter to the very concept of a macro-simulation!

I'm sure they won't. They explain that the change to Tyrion was for practical reasons, they didn't want to compromise his performance with CGI or force Peter to wear a green sock on his nose for the balance of the season when it really does not affect the plot to change the injury. That other injury, on the other…

Episode 9, this season. Confirmed in S2 commentary. (Or at least strongly alluded to.)

Jamie and Brienne. The episode lines up nicely with when a certain departure from Harrenhall wherin Jamie's rescue of Brienne (the maiden fair) from an actual bear would happen.

Given that episode 9 is titles "The Rains of Castamere" should be pretty obvious which one it will happen in. Besides they're all over the S2 DVD commentary referring to a "certain event" upcoming in 309 and how important it is to make sure people know that song in advance of it.

He does, he says he expects Bran heading north of the wall to happen around the season finale, not in ep. 4.

As history has taught us time and time again, the ultimate result will most likely be: Not very well at all.

I as well will never be able to know the other side of the story. I'd like to think (as most men do) that I do alright. But, I've always wondered that myself. All I know is that occasionally people do things to it where the physical shock is so sudden and so intense the nearest thing I could compare it to is suddenly…