From the logo, they clearly meant “menhir” (I read a lot of Asterix as a kid)...

A straight news story presented as a fucking slideshow? Seriously? In all seriousness, is management threating to murder your pets if you don’t meet a slideshow quota?

Hah. Their reviewer went on and on about “broth and juice” in the description of the beach scene.

Author: “They did a ‘Bury Your Gays’! Shame! Shame!”

Viserys coughed when he entered the Driftmark throne room, and anyone who’s seen a British period drama knows that’s a death sentence. 

No, she and the subtitles both say “duck and goose,” and she specifically says that she finds the latter too fatty for her taste. And odd thing to say about “juice.”

“Broth and juice”? Wut the actual eff? She clearly and distinctly says duck and goose, specifically saying that she finds the latter to be too fatty for her taste. How can juice be fatty?

That’s the screwup du jour of writers who only read Twitter. My other favorite is tech writers who say things like “When the system is running full boat, the fans get really loud” - the idiom is “full bore.”

I hope that one day your family will find you a nice cult deprogramming specialist. They’re going to be in big demand.

1) The War of Wrath also involved a large chunk of western Middle Earth being blasted into the ocean.

Don’t worry, longtime readers of io9 who remember the before-times have long since given up on io9 doing something so wildly out of character as providing weekly writeups of sci-fi and fantasy shows.

Discord, a gussied-up IRC. How quaint.

> It’s not long, though, until the cat you control is separated from the pack.

That’s the second time they’ve used “9 to 5" in The Orville...

To be fair, there’s not going to be a lot of carryover in mannerisms and speech patterns between a 5 year old and 28 year old.

>which means the park I’ve been calling Mobworld could be named Temperance. It’s not used much nowadays, but it means an ability to moderate yourself, particularly in regard to total alcohol abstinence.

> (See also: The moment when William unveiled the latest park in an earlier episode and referred to the pandemic that ravaged the human population in the 21st century). I appreciate the show trying not to will away COVID and its many metaphors, but it still feels too soon.

Said the exact same thing in a (greyed) comment of my own. I have to listen to Cubs games on the radio.

>Just 11% of U.S. adults polled by The Washington Post last year listed baseball as their favorite sport to watch, well behind the 34% who listed football as their favorite sport.

My brain processed that headline as “APALLING Inside and Out.”