Mine too, it was much more excitement than Howard’s End and a whole lot less dense than A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Basically, the hated list contains anything you had to read in school that was long and really, really boring

Jeopardy is not about actually knowing stuff like “who won NBA all-star MVP in 2001" or “What was the date of Charles Lindbergh’s landing”. You know the question style well enough that you pick out the clue that is the real test. For instance, I know jack shit about operas, but damn whenever an opera category comes…

There’s not a team in the league without insufferable dipshits in the high-priced seats for the WS

...and the Marine Corps Marathon is earlier that day!

Isn’t “Seats comfortable enough to sleep in” like 90% of the appeal of first class though?

That’s fair. The games that use the sabotage dynamic to even things out are much more fun. It’s all in the game to go after the guy with a big lead (and they don’t get too upset because, hey, they’re winning). Monopoly sabotage is too often “punching down” and just leaves players feeling ganged up on and helpless,…

Its not fun because the most effective strategy is to collude and screw over a player with a slight disadvantage

In my experience, the longest Monopoly games are the prisoner’s dilemma games where no one cooperates or trades, so no one can build a damn house and you go around getting your $200 from GO and losing $22 on Ventor Avenue

I only use “we” in the context of watching a game. It much easier to have conversations where you use “us” (my team) and “them” (the team they are playing) rather than saying both team names for each part of your conversation.

Right, and given that pretty much all NFL kickers can routinely knock it out of the back of the endzone (75 yards) on a kickoff, they could probably make a FG with this runup from 65-70 without too much trouble.

Logically, thats a strategic mistake. Those with nothing to lose have nothing to fear. A ruined city filled with people that have lost everything is going to be really hard to control! But I can get Daenerys not seeing that.

Like the mailbag says, the issue is micro rather than macro. I buy that she’s more ruthless and violent in pursuit of the Iron Throne than we (and her advisors) were hopeful for.

No, they need to follow the written rules, and race in a way that doesn't endanger all the animals and humans on the track

Yeah, in real time it was hard to tell exactly which horse it was, but the way the group behind the leaders checked and moved out, it was immediately obvious that there was going to be a DQ.

Thousand years from now, there will probably be tales and legends of the Assassin Princess or the Faceless She-Wolf or whatever.

Thank you so much for using the Kent Brockman “Where’s MY elephant” picture.

They both look like idiots, but I hold critical civil institutions to a higher standard than random TV actors.

If they’re worried about unnecessary costs, seems like addressing the $662 Million they’ve paid out in misconduct cases for the past 15 years would be a better target.

My headcanon for the Quiet Place universe is that the cities survived not by being silent, but by being walls of sound (like the waterfall). It would be interesting for a follow-up for a “silent” movie to be a movie filled with constant unrelenting noise.