I’ve made my sacrifices to CThulhu, so I’m optimistic! ;)

That is a really good point! It’s so easy to forget other contributing factors when you are looking at stats. :)

Yeah, my OH has been to about 6 funerals this year, not including her dad and my aunt. We are being hyperbolic when we say ‘2016 - worst year evar!’ etc. but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a pretty awful year for a lot of us!

This appears to be the only year for a while in which we have had so many very-famous people die, though. In addition this year has given us Trump, Brexit, mainstream Nazism, Aleppo... so I think we have some degree of right to declare it a pretty shit year in general. No nuclear war *yet* so that’s a plus.

I had Norns! They were so cute.

I think generally it goes into a trust to look after them or the relatives sue for it. But legally, in the UK at least, everything goes to the spouse unless stated otherwise. Which is a tricky precedent if you are trying to counter-sue for the money. Plus robots may not actually *have* the same needs or rights as…

Eh, as long as she’s happy it’s all good! It does bring up an interesting moral/legal quandry though. If sex/relationship robots do become common and are able to get married, what happens to any money willed to them by a spouse/partner? Does it go to the robot? (Who presumably lacks human rights.) To the nearest human…

Its 2016, guys! We don’t need no stinkin’ ‘ocracies!

Right?! If you are so eager to kill someone, at least nut up (I like that!) and do it the most painless way. I could give a crap about your own damn squeamishness.

Now, I don’t agree with the death penalty, but if you insist on having it why on Earth wouldn’t you just use a guillotine?! Incredibly quick, rarely goes wrong (I think it was once during the whole French Revolution?), painless (as far as we can tell.) cheap and efficient. Cleanup is, arguably, a bit harder but FFS if…

“Even though I am omnipotent and omnipresent and decided what good and evil are in the first place.”

See, unpopular opinion  but I actually love season 4! LOL. (It’s not just because of Tara, I swear.) Yoko Factor is hilarious and Restless is just surreal but interesting. (Plus Hush, Fear Itself etc.) I do agree with you about Spike but I think he actually gets *more* annoying in season 5 with the whole ‘endless…

Thank you! Best werewolf is best werewolf. ;) Yeah, that might work. Or perhaps a wig shop? I would suggest we lure him in with pussies, but that seems unfair to the cats.

I did think that myself. Maybe if we just stick a big pile of money in there too?

So all we need to do is lure the orange one into a library full of explosives? Sounds like a plan! :P

I feel you there. Sometimes ADHD does not play well with new TV shows! LOL.

I *want* to watch Westworld (loved the film.), season 2 of Daredevil, Luke Cage, Gilmore Girls... but for some reason I am just sitting here with episodes of Buffy on. What is this apathy?! I blame 2016.

Tell me she at least wrote a book about her experience as a space farmer with Stockholm?

*their, obviously.

‘Gender-based violence’, huh? Well ain’t that a new and exciting way to avoid saying ‘rape.’ Good thing it only happens to opposite genders, eh. Imagine if people were attacking there own gender sexually. What on earth would they call it?!