+1 home run

I hope he dies in a fire screaming in agony myself.

Almost certainly.

Yep.

I had a friend that kept one of these guys as a pet, it was the chillest, nicest chitinous creature I’ve ever met. No bites, no pinches, just chilling on your hand. You could even feed them food on your hand and he would just munch on the fruit. I’m not much for exotic pets, but if I was, rhinoceros beetle would be…

Unless you are a piece of fruit or a plant you have nothing to fear from one of those. Unless one accidentally flies into your eye they can’t hurt you and are quite frankly more likely to be scared of you than you are of them. Don’t be a baby.

If we get technical, “black”, “white” etc. are merely constructed terms. There is no “black” gene, no “white” gene, no “asian” gene; we are all a mishmash of various peoples who traveled across the planet fucking each other for various reasons. The oldest man found in England, Cheddar Man, was what we in the modern…

There are areas of Europe even today with zero black people for a 50-100km radius. While there are places where they are almost a majority.

You understand nothing about the history of the region. Eastern Europe was absolutely full of non-white people as the Ottoman Empire was pushing further and further into the region. Merchants, sailors and diplomats all certainly passed through Bohemia. Japan at the time was largely isolated from the rest of the world…

It’s not poisonous to point out a creator’s beliefs, it’s important for contextual purposes and it’s particularly important here, where an author of historical fiction is calling it “historically accurate”. The difference between Wolfenstein 2 and Kingdom Come is that nobody is claiming that Wolfenstein 2 is…

Venice to Prague is about 500 miles, in 1403 that’s a distance that some merchants regularly traveled; one example from historical records: that Jacob Fugger had processed metals sent from the region to Venice to defeat a rival merchant. You are correct that Moor doesn’t necessarily mean “black”, but most Moors were…

Agreed. And it’s worth noting that Ryder and Reeves were basically studio decisions, shoved in because they were big names at the time.

I’m going to somewhat disagree. It’s visually gorgeous and it’s over the top in some really fun ways. Perhaps more significantly, it made it so monsters in movies were no longer considered to be just for campy, low-budget movies. Without Dracula, we probably don’t get The Shape of Water, or really just about anything…

Violence, or at least the threat of it, is lurking in the background of every so-called “peaceful” protest movement. We lionize MLK, but Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, as well as similar groups, scared the shit out of white Americans by openly stating that black people should defend themselves. Politics and the…

Fun story, this idea has also been beaten multiple times in court. So if this passes, Rhode Island is just flushing money down the toilet.

Ladies of Deaspin, I have one question: why?

I didn’t mind them myself. It was more of a joke that, obviously, the doll doesn’t have that feature.

But does it come with impaling action?

Brings new meaning to the term “ankle breaker”.