And yet, gender-swapped versions of beloved originals seem to just set these new shows up for failure.

And was turned into the eternal Silmaral bearer as the morning star whose light was captured into a glass phial by Lady Galadrial who provided it to Frodo who used it to drive off Shelob and by Sam to break the spell of the Mordor gate-watchers. It is saying that the events that happened in the semi-mythical past…

You don’t read much, do you?

I’m going to quote another reply, courtesy of 2Fast2War:

I have. Again, a lot of lore, but a mile wide, and an inch deep.

Apparently, any photos of myself with a lady friend is ‘evidence’ that we dated. Thanks, Moby!

My opinion is sure to be massively unpopular, but I’ve always felt that Tolkein’s world is a mile-wide, and an inch deep. There’s a lot of lore, but it’s not terribly meaningful lore, operating more like ostentatious window dressing. I’m unsure there truly is that much substance to really explore. I think the best…

Yeah, I’m not even a LotR fan, but LotRO was great (and maybe still is, I’ve been off the MMO train for years now). It was good enough that WoW lifted some features from it, e.g. earning talents by completing feats in LotRO became achievements in WoW.

And after briefly dating in 1999

As long as drivers know ahead of time, and can decline to pick up passengers based on their preference.

Google Stadia is firing shots across Sony’s bow, and Sony is in no position to compete in the cloud sector... Microsoft Azure seems like their only real option. And since Microsoft is making more money off their cloud services than they are Xbox, they’re probably more than happy to play ball with Sony.

Each successive candidate for the Democratic nomination is necessarily dumber than the last, which means De Blasio is dumber than the previous 22, and the 24th candidate will be dumber than the previous 23.

Dude definitely sounds like a self-serious fedora scumbag, yeah. That might not actually be the case, but the tone of the letter just pissed me off on principle.

But that’s the thing about dating: There is nobody who’s “perfect” for you. There is no “one.” There are many people who are right for you, but every relationship is going to involve deciding that what this person or that person offers is so awesome that you’re willing to give up on the stuff you would be giving up.

From the Politico headline, Beto’s Long History of Failing Upward:

But Melee and 64 live forever!

New Smash Bros comes out:

I didn’t realize Veep was only 7 episodes long for the final season, so for a moment I thought I was seeing some kind of fantasy that Selina was having about her future that would encourage her to avoid making the wrong decisions she had apparently made so far. But nope, the show went right for the fucking throat.

I feel it suffered from that Ubisoft problem from eventually feeling like a checklist you have to go down, taking care of all the bases and other icons on the map. But it sure was a pretty game, decent melee system, and it was creepy going into the underground. Oh, and the sandstorms were badass. I picked it up for…

Right? It was a better successor to System Shock than Bioshock. It seems like it had long legs, though -- enough to warrant some good DLC down the line.