Yep, You’re the reason most people who commented here left.

because everyone’s racist uncle finds her attractive and therefore truthful?

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Video game companies:

Bad. Comments system is crap. I used to read the comments on a lot of articles, but now I’m not really doing that anymore. Just doesn’t feel the same. Im reading less of the articles too. I won’t stop coming, but it won’t be as frequent as before. At least the What are you playing this week community is still strong.

Nay with enough optimism to stay for now. There’s nothing good about it, but I remain irrationally hopeful that a better AV Club will arrive in a month or a year.

Yeah, Jackson threw in a lot of stupid shit.

My biggest complaints are not making Legolas a badass, but 1.) making Legolas a skateboarder, and 2.) reducing the characterization of the Ents to “they talk reaaaaaaaaaaaally, reeeeaaaaaaalllllllllllyyy sllloooooooooooooooooooowwwwww.”

It always chapped my ass that there are people whose only LOTR experiences are those movies. Not because they’re bad movies, but because they aren’t the pure distillations of all the good things about the books that people make them out to be.

Neither of those gods were men.

MUST REPEAL DEATH TAX...TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMIC THEORY IS VALID...REAGAN...REAGAN...REAGAN...EVERYTHING...GOLD PLATED...SHINY...

Neither of those men are dead, they ascended from their corporeal bodies.

No thanks. If death is good enough for Prince and Bowie, it’s good enough for me.

I like this.

It’s Jaime and Cersei not Jon and Dany the “love” of a short season compared to the “love” of the entire series. It’s Jaime also Valyrian words for lord and light are aeksio and onos and Valyrian words for gold and hand are aeksion and ondos. Second time he tempered the sword it was a lion heart. He is younger then…

I’d bet there’d be a fairly vigorous anti-dragon industry, too.

And yet, the scale of all of that development looks like *nothing* compared to the last 200 years.

“Well, if you consider that our last ice age was 10,000 years ago, things were pretty much the same (speaking relative to today) from a technology perspective for 9,000+ of those years.”

I’m not a fantasy reader (Get out of my spaceship aisle you magic bastards!) partially because I think the tech assumption is completely backwards. If there’s some dudes going around hurling fireballs from their hands, you better believe there’s going to be an industrious person sick of getting his ass kicked…

This. The paleolithic era lasted for most of the existence of homo sapiens sapiens. Hunting and gathering, bare subsistence farming, some pastoralism... but very low population density and a fair amount of migration in search of food and resources. Even after we entered the “modern” era, some areas went in different…