I mean, we all die. How many people get to choose how their death will shape an entire section of the universe? But then I’m a huge pessimist and appreciate a bit of bitterness to even my escapist fantasy.

Flemeth defintely feels maybe a little weird in the DAII (recall that she was also a bit of a deus ex machina in DAO as well), but in DAI, I feel like that choice was completely redeemed. And I liked that it gave us a completely different perspective on the Grey Wardens (which is borne out somewhat in DAI), which also…

Yes, DA2! It’s fun to play, the writing’s good, and I love the contrast of scale from DAO to DA2; it’s a completely different but still compelling story. I also feel like of all the conflicted allies one deals with in this series, this one has the strongest reasons so it’s a gut punch. Also, it gave us Varric. (I also…

But IHOP has boysenberry syrup, its saving grace.

I mean, who’s going to go for a sit-down breakfast at an IHOP in the morning before work?

1. I didn’t know how much I wanted these in my life

WHAT?! OH NO!

While it depends on what exact scotch he’s ordering, any major city will have specialty liquor stores in the area that carry multiple bottles of various rare spirits in the $500–+$1k range.

Yeah, but this is about the best shows on TV this year. Choose a different year/previous season and I’d agree with you. That they didn’t make this year is the indictment their piss poor decisions deserve. (I do feel for the crew and the actors, though. They deserve a victory lap.)

GOT had previous seasons that deserve to be on a best-of list, but the final season was not one of them. It had one really good episode, two fair-to-middling, and the rest were just whaaa?

I’ve been trying so hard to get into it, and I just can’t. But that said, I felt the same way about The Office, so maybe I’m just not in the right headspace yet.

Love GLOW but where it ended has me very concerned. There was great work there, but given the other entries on this list, I can see it just missing out.

Any profession in the public trust, this sort of shit should be an automatic firing barring some incredibly extenuating circumstances (e.g. going along with it while documenting everything and reporting it, followed by leaking if when it becomes necessary).

I thought a tartan is the specific family plaid pattern/colors, not a thing itself? I find his wording confusing. Like, men have kilts made of tartan, you can have a blanket in your tartan, etc. so it’s hard to tell how much this would of have cost (kilts are f’ng expensive), but if it was Scottish made from Scottish…

We can only hope.

When you’re young and desperate to break into a highly desirable and competitive field like art—particularly when you lack the sort of financial and cultural capital that these kids did by this account—you’ll put up with a lot. It’s easy to armchair quarterback these things, but put yourself in their shoes: it looks…

To be fair, her entire job is to stay in top form whereas most of us are merely grist for the mill.

Also: Beck Bennett looks way more like Macron than Fallon. I guess they felt that they could only have guests in the cold open now except for McKinnon?

and I thought, “Finally! Something fresh!”

Stash’s lemon ginger tea with pretty much anything is also very good and a winter staple for me. (I’ve tried pretty much every other mainstream tea brand I’ve been able to get my hands on, but Stash’s blend provides the most substantial ginger flavor.)