Copyright is one of those ugly areas of fandom where companies are more than happy to let fans use their property as free publicity until suddenly they aren’t. I can’t recall the specifics, but I think Fox did something like this to X-files fan sites back in the early days of the Internet. I’ve always wondered what…

This is, in all seriousness, the reason why his election as VP terrifies me.

I do not take solace in how absolutely delighted Pence looks by comparison. Trump may want to hire an official food taster.

Interesting. Would you mind editing your post to include that research? It seems more opinion than data, but I’ve been surprised in the past by counterintuitive research(like spikes in gun ownership not correlating with increases in gun deaths). Despite having less faith in data than I did before November 8th, it’s…

Try not to hold those reactions against them... a lot of us are stuck in the second stage of grief, and moving past anger is going to be very, very painful, given who and what we all have to bargain with(ugh). I’m glad people like you have our backs, and they will be, too, even if they don’t want to admit it.

Contrariwise, the longer a politician is in office, the harder it is to get them out, regardless of how little they actually do. And there’s been a whole lot of doing nothing in Congress ever since they decided the best way to serve the country was to sit on their hands until they controlled the White House again(and…

Didn’t the exit polls show Trump’s groundswell of support was middle and upper middle class white voters? More white collar than blue collar, if such things even exist anymore? The picture I saw was one of moderately comfortable people anxious about losing what they have, not people who have little and are…

It would be very nice if he could fix all those things he talked about, like our infrastructure, but that’s an awful lot of government spending. That money has to come from somewhere, and if Republicans wouldn’t pass a jobs bill for Obama, they’re not going to pass one for him. But I hope they do. I hope they make…

I would swear there was a Greek myth about a guy captivated by his own reflection.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’d like to see those statistics. I’d gotten the impression that media has grown more diverse over the past twenty years. (I’m assuming you’re referring exclusively to American journalists, and that you’re not excluding freelancers or other non-staff news contributors.)

I realize the term is actually being used appropriately here, but ever since I learned alt-right whackjobs use “cuck” as a racist insult, seeing the the word anywhere just makes my skin crawl. I’m probably going to have to watch the extremely violent penguin just to remind myself there are worse things in nature than…

So, as a general rule, do you enjoy posting your opinion and insulting everyone else for having their own? I’m curious what motivates a person who only cares about their own opinion to spend so much time and effort letting others know you don’t care about their opinions. If it’s to raise the quality of human…

I would have loved to see a presidential debate when all those snide, under the breath comments and retorts were silenced, and candidates actually had to wait their damned turn to object and argue. I’ve seen high school Model UN meetings where immature teenagers portraying dictatorships showed more civility and…

The older I get, the harder it is for me to feel as idealistic as you obviously still feel. It’s a genuine struggle. I often think back to the scene in Twelve Angry Men when the racism of one of the holdout jurors is finally revealed and a man who had been on his side until he started ranting becomes so disgusted he…

Politics are usually part of a comedy act, but people are weirdly blind to it. My parents stopped watching George Carlin because they felt like he was getting “too political,” but his act was always consistent. They just got more conservative over time and it bothered them to realize it.

Judging by gaming forums, it’s no smaller or less vocal a community than the people who show up just to argue with us for being “put out” by the news. And then there's the crowd who show up exclusively to remind everyone that PC gaming is better than console gaming whenever there's a story about console issues. I…

You're underestimating the number of people who want to revisit older games and buy remastered editions for their new DLC, graphics, and features like mods. The ability to use mods on a console was a selling point for the Skyrim re-release on PS4. Now it's just another graphics update, and that's going to hurt sales.…

Read this article exclusively to comment on the phrase “generating a fair amount of online outrage.” Things like THIS are exactly why people online need to dial down their rants and outrage over pop culture nonsense. By all means, have an opinion on tv show cliffhangers and whether Game of Thrones offended you this…

I’ve actually been replaying Fallout 3 to see all the DLC I never got around to seeing, killing time until Fallout 4 updates for the PS4. I want to play the rest of the Minecraft and Game of Thrones Telltale games, but the Fallout universe has kind of sucked me in for the moment. Bethesda games have been doing that to…

That enable modders to create content that will work officially with all platforms. Kind of a big deal to those of us who used to ride dragons in Oblivion for mere moments before the game crashed to desktop. (Not that vanilla Oblivion or even Skyrim were altogether stable on consoles, but I'm encouraged by how much…