Really? If you remember, be sure to tell Ylvis:

Ditto.

Not really. The Mohawks actually fought for the British because the Crown, against the colonists' wishes, wanted to abide by their treaty obligations, whereas the colonists wanted to steal more Mohawk land.

The plants are behind you!

To wit: The Damon Lindelof Intervention, which isn't just from someone knowledgable but also has the advantage of being sympathetic without pulling its punches.

Yeah. He's great on Alex de Campi's Smoke. In another interview with him he said he started working for Marvel on the assumption that deadlines were rock-solid, so when he was asked to produce something in a week, he did it.

It was Kickstarted, but I missed that and only later heard about it on rpg.net.

You might be interested in a recent p&p RPG set in Mesoamerica: New Fire: Temikamatl Book of Dreams.

I loved that movie too! The ship's called the Palomino.

Whereas Mark Strong kept his for Sinestro.

Both change their accent, though: they're playing Americans. (Ditto, as TheGreatApe points out, for Bale and Cavill.)

I always thought American casting of Brits was rather revealing: they're cast as either slightly effete villains or wise old mentors.

Yeah. I think it's more to do with where the good dialect coaches are (LA) and which accents they specialize in (American ones). British actors doing American accents on British TV, however... oy vey!

Shanahan's talking about the support PopSci has received, i.e. other people saying they might imitate the decision. She deals with the research PopSci itself cites, and criticizes it, in her article.

I was a little younger than you at the time and really liked the Ewoks. I'm pretty sure a lot of the Ewok hate comes from the generation who were, say, 10 in 1977 and were too cool to enjoy anything child-centred by the time RotJ came out. I was much more bothered at the time by Leia turning out to be Luke's sister -…

I was a member of the Star Wars fan club back in the day and collected the figures: it definitely came as a surprise to me.

The point is that Gypsies have been and still are subject to murderous persecution for allegedly being shifty, untrustworthy, thieving and generally evil. Associations with black magic and Satan are part of that history of prejudice. So it's a bit like if the next episode had the heroes defeating an evil Jewish…

They're weirdly quiet about it. I think they've got their core Ars Magica audience who buy all the books. But I've got several of them and the quality is across the board good. You should definitely look into them - 5th edition is mechanically the cleanest yet.

OK, just because no one else seems to have mentioned it:

I never knew what to do with it. The art was just stunning, though.