Being high-functioning Aspergers—to the point of most people just thinking I'm a "bit odd"—is a lot like being from another country. I know this is the "rule," yet I just can't help myself.

A disabled female POC as the protagonist? We gotta hat trick! If she's LGBT or a religious minority, we have a full Sammy Davis Jr.

We may have invented it, but it seems like others perfected it. America is still far too reliant on conventional military action. I think Obama gets it, but real irony is that the most vocal war hawks in Washington don't. When they criticize the President for not being "aggressive" enough with ISIS and flip their lid…

I present, for your entertainment, Five Magic Cards Who Clearly Just Farted:

Actually his name was Hexxus, and the song is "Toxic Love," easily one of the most blatantly sexual songs in a kid's movie ever, and easily THE most sexual song Tim Curry has sung since Rocky Horror.

Just a thought.

Right, inconsistent was the wrong word. It's consistently impossible. There are things that just shouldn't be there, like room doors that should only open into a stairwell. The Gold Room has zero connection to the rest of the hotel.

The one inconsistent part is the hedge maze, natch. The map seems to appear, disappear,…

One of the most fascinating things to me about The Shining was how Kubrick played with your sense of location to build a feeling of unease without you ever being able to figure out exactly why. I know there had to have been people who got it before, but it wasn't really proven just how trippy the Overlook was until…

Rush isn't (completely) wrong, but he is most certainly an asshole.

I mean, seriously, I thought we retired the "they can use that word" defense, but here it is. Don't know why I thought that, since the "women can hit men so I should be able to hit women" defense is stronger than ever. Fuck Rush.

That said...I did think…

That's one possible interpretation of the metaphor, yes. It could also be about creepy stalker exes. It could be interpreted as either pro or anti-abstinence. It's a pretty unique metaphor in that the fact it is a metaphor could not possibly be clearer, yet what the metaphor really means is open to interpretation.

My understanding is that this was not murder, it was suicide.

I've never seen the Monster Manual Brainstealer Dragons came from, but I don't think they're an actual race of dragon so much as a strange aberration (as well as being the Aberration type). Long-established D&D Logic tells me that they are the result of Mind Flayer implanting in a dragon. Illithids reproduce by larvae…

Speaking of intentional.

I thought they had gone too far the first time I tried a flavored oreo, which IIRC was Birthday Cake. Then, I woke up an hour later with a milk moustache, an empty package, and two very concerned-looking dogs. I have repeated this event many times, most recently with Pumpkin Spice.

Anyone here military? If so, did you stay in the "Starship"-style barracks in Basic? (I know the Army has them, don't know about other branches) I was struck by how incredibly well-defended they'd be against a zombie outbreak.

Basically, casting was not at all the movie's problem. Everyone in the movie was good.

Jennifer Hale (Fem!Shep, many others) has talked about 7 before. I can't look up the exact quote right now, but the gist of it is that for some reason, this is genuinely hard, even for pro voice actors. This coming from a woman whose voice acting career is practically built upon her ability to grunt well, to the point…

There's precedent, but I'd be more impressed if she ate it.

I gave this to a friend of mine once, and when I got to the turtle question, I swear to God, he did the scene word for word. I thought he was acting, but no, he'd never seen the movie. It was uncanny....like the valley.

To quote the Linkara/Spoony review...