Though using the dryer takes a significant burst of electricity, which is almost certainly as much or more than a towel takes to produce.

He really f’ed up the series by not doing the 5 year time jump as planned, and instead writing out a 2000 page training montage in the form of books 4&5. He just couldn’t bear anything happening off camera, it seems. Not only are the later books boring, all the stark kids are too young.

Said many times before, but bitching about 4th wall breaking in baldur’s gate is kind of completely fucking stupid. Did you play the original game?

I can’t beleived you Hamfisteldy crammed a bucket who transitioned into a duck into your work! There’s no room for duck buckets in stream of conciousness writing!

Agreed. The idea that the only thing people talk about in Marvel is the jokes, not the story, what horseshit. DD, JJ, Cap 2.

Then there was that time on his podcast where he let a guest get away with claiming 200,000,000 children die of malaria every year, suggesting he’s actually pretty iffy on orders of magnitude for an astrophysicist.

Somewhat relevant:

dont forget about the geography changing completely!

SO what possible effect can becoming the God of Strength have on pre-depowering Sueprman, who was effectively omnipotent ?

Yeah, I think the 2% human is false positives, and want to see their control reactions.

exactly. this and other scandals over the last decade (horse meat in beef, cheap fish being passed off as expensive fish) have led companies to beleive that new FDA regulations are impending. DNA based testing has also gotten really fast and cheap, and can answer these questions.

Its about getting ahead of/being prepared to respond to new FDA regulations.

The business model is “the FDA pays us to test foods for pathogens and/or species identity” or “companies pay us to test their foods so they know they will pass FDA tests ahead of time.” There’s actually an incredible amount of money in the rapid DNA diagnostics market right now, in food and elsewhere.

Well, I thought it was dumb because his logic so easily translates to professional sports—this is a billion dollar industry where people go sit and watch people play games they could just play themselves!?!?! There’s nothing really new or clever or insightful or funny about making that statement regarding video games.

Looks like World of Warcraft on its highest graphics settings.

What is with all the cat hate on io9 today! THOSE PAWPRINTS ARE ADORBS

Yeah I’ve come to this way of thinking because the Red God and Valeryia are both clearly assholes, so if the Others exist to oppose one or both, they probably have a good damn reason. I’ve read a theory somewhere the wall may have been erected to keep Men out of the True North, not to keep the white walkers out of the…

I think the white walkers are either Children or First men who were wronged by the ancestors of Valeryia, and did this to themselves as their only way of fighting back.

More and more convinced of this. My other “GRRM is a bad storyteller/troll” theory is that the reason book 6 is delyaed forever is that he has no intention of writing any more books. Its just a reasonable trillogy, two meandering side plot compliations, and then we’re done. Jon Snow isn’t coming back because there’s…

Actually, the creeper Quiverfull church basically requires constant sexual availability and a even more creepier highly specific set of guidelines for how a woman should keep herself attractive. TO her husband, of course.