I actually really dig it. It's a ~moe~ anime gender-bent, but the character development is well-done if cliched, and the animation is downright gorgeous.

"unless you want to outsource decision-making about what content is right for your kids to other people"

As a result, the bodies never decomposed, and so there were graveyards full of corpse waxed bodies. People are still wondering what to do with them.

Maybe it's not taking a turn to the absurd. Maybe it went over to the Metaphor Track, and someone is saying goodbye to their longtime spouse.

I'm gonna have to go with either Dresden Files or The Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, et al.)

Harry Dresden. Feels natural and it has principles. Its the most thought-through magical system I know.

The practisioners Belief in themselves Makes the magic Happen. To do magic you must feel it is not only possiable that it Will happen, One must feel that it Should. If you kill with magic, you believe it to be…

Do straight people really think we gays have private mass gatherings?

Hello there - religion scholar here with a strong background in new testament and hebrew bible studies. I think you are working with a poor translation that is undermining your larger point. I strongly recommend reading the NRSV (New Revised Standard Version) or the JPS version (Hebrew Bible only). These translations…

How the hell are we going to get one of these in every household? It costs nearly $6m (adjusted).

This is the real problem with the video game industry and internet/videogame culture as a whole. It's all a bunch of manchildren (myself included at times, I will freely admit). Any time someone disagrees, it creates this ridiculous behavior of becoming children. Children. Because an adult would deal with their…

Not to sound absent of empathy but Thomas Jefferson one said. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Though his word would have to be questioned in my eyes cause he was a strong supporter of the french revolution and blood baths. At…

Bottled water, you mean?

Iodine in our salt, folate in our bread, and Vitamin A/D in our milk are in products that you can buy, and all those products have alternatives without the chemicals. Let people have the choice if they want it or not.

I think people's reactions to some of these characters may have a lot to do with who they know in real life. Rose reminds me of other characters I've seen on television, but no one I've actually met in real life. In that sense I always saw her as shallow and two dimensional, a little annoying and sort of a plot…

Anastasia (as voiced by Meg Ryan): I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school... I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy...

Ariel: She doesn't even go here!

It would be fascinating if someone used this idea for an urban fantasy about werewolves: werewolf society in the story does have the alpha/beta structure, but as a result of the influence of that famous study, rather than natural behaviour. I.e., since werewolves are half-human, they've been socialized with human…

It's a popular niche attraction referred to as "bear" if I recall correctly.

The problem with that chart is it's missing the ACTUAL scientific explanation column for comparison.