Darkest timeline?

You're right, it's not a rule you created. It's not a rule at all. English is a tough language, I know, but do try to read nuance just a little bit. When someone says to you "representations of supernatural animals are not subject to your rules", that person is not suggesting that you literally have codified rules…

I have no artistic skill, and I envy those who do, so to assuage the pain of being talentless, I will smugly dissect this story's headline and point out that the subject of the painting isn't really a dragon by common Western standards and that the artist used more than one stroke to create beauty that I can't…

Really? I think the resource is fresh water. Salt water renders land barren, and desalination is expensive, even without the associated costs of infrastructure for distribution/transport that would come with it. And who's to say the film doesn't take place in an area particularly marred by the shortage? I don't…

Damn, not even a token black guy.

The Ace Attorney spin-off series Ace Attorney Investigations is worth checking out too. Just to clarify, the trilogy coming on 3DS isn't really a remake, just an enhanced port, like the millions of other Capcom titles. Would've been a great time to plug Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney coming out in…

Cannot recommend Phoenix Wright enough! I don't remember how I ended up with it but I remember being convinced I'd hate it when suddenly I was absolutely in love with the series. Excellent characters, interesting cases, and tons of laughs to be had!

How to play it: Start with the first game (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) on DS or iOS, then work your way through the series in sequential order. Then get the fifth game (Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies) on 3DS or iOS. Also, if you don't mind waiting, Capcom is releasing a 3DS remake of the first three games later this…

Must, must, must add Save The Date to the list. It's an American-made visual novel with a crazy meta twist. Super well-written and heart-wrenching too. Oh, and it's free. One of my favorite games of 2013. Check it out.

I'll vouch for Phoenix Wright, that series is probably in my top 3 of all time. Don't skip out on Apollo Justice, it isn't called Ace Attorney 4 but it's a must-play!

Have you actually paid attention to any of the coverage of this case? Witnesses have gone on national television and said Brown had turned to face the officer with his hands up. But it's cool that the spirit of Jim Crow's alive and well and blacks can't be trusted as witnesses.

Only there's examples readily available that show your assumptions of equal treatment aren't a reality. White people in Huntington Beach riot and there is no teargas. White people threaten people with guns (not open carry idiots, but disturbed angry people waving guns around), are talked down and arrested, while…

It is about context. It's about the fact that an African American man who shoplifts or smokes weed is a threatening criminal where as when other races are doing the same these crimes are treated as more innocuous.

Dickheads who deserve to be dropped off in the middle of Siberia to fend for themselves.

If he wasn't blue, then he was not truly a Canadian Tuxedo cat.

Animal control stepping in varies from shelter to shelter. In my county anyone surrendering an animal, cat or dog, to the county pound has to pay $26 . They are told upfront that this is to cover the cost of euthanasia if the animal doesn't get adopted. Private rescues won't take a surrender, but direct people to the…

I knew when the invasion started it would be with the well-dressed ones.

I live in a rural area. People dump cats all the time in my neighborhood thinking (incorrectly) that hey, they're cats, they'll survive. I believe that's how a tuxedo cat ended up on my doorstep two years ago in the dead of a frigid Michigan winter. Miss Sir Stanley Matthews (she was named before her gender was…

At what point can Animal Control step in on that type of situation? It's distressing that many places are already overrun with cats. Spay/Neuter your pets people.

On Jalopnik, this would spawn lots of "hell......cat" jokes.