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Spoiler Alert: Khal Drogo is a super-rapist. You say “legitimately romantic,” I say, “Stockholm Syndrome.” Khal Drogo is the rape king complete with rape-based economy. His child is the Stallion Who Mounts the World.

For me, it was Weapon X. I’m not going to pretend I didn’t love Wolverine, but Weapon X was a crash course on how crazy back stories could be, how supplemental material can sometimes eclipse the current storytelling in quality. The Hobbit was probably my first read where I got a distinct sense of before and after

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There was a venue for experimental art and music called Fort Thunder that was home to a lot of those dudes before PFFR and ADHD. Check out the Pick A Winner DVD or some of the Paperrad mix tapes for the roots of the good stuff.

I am playing through The Last of Us again. Better half just got us Katamari Forever so that is going to see some play when I don’t feel like stressing myself out with Last of Us.

I think that it speaks volumes that the chain businesses are feeding the National Guard and nameless, local businesses are feeding the local police officers. Painfully clear who is selling a story and how that is separate from the Baltimore community.

This is one of those moments where a child shows you a macaroni art picture of a dog turd and you choke out a “That’s great, kid.” Then he tells you it was inspired by M. C. Escher’s Still Life with Spherical Mirror and a little part of you dies inside.

DUANE!!!

Finishing off The Last of Us. I am actually from Pittsburgh and died at one point because I got distracted passing a shop I used to frequent (before the zombie apocalypse) and got taken out while gawping. I haven't played all the FPS games out there, but of those I have I liked Half Life 2 the best. This game

I have been playing an Xbox for a decade, and I had one of those tiny PS1s circa 2001, so the PS3 controller is a lovely marriage of the two. I'm still reeling from the lack of cable, it messes with my muscle memory.

Ni No Kuni. The aesthetics are beautiful and everything you want. The combat system is actually fun. Studio Ghibli, so duh, and Level-5, let me double down on that duh. But, for me, the thing that's really slaying it is the cel shading because I seriously CAPS LOCK LOVE CEL SHADING so yeah, just perfect.

I wasn't "making a quote," but here's some counter-advice (again): You shouldn't confuse homophones if you want to be an authority on language. You're hurting your credibility when the statements you're making show your lack of understanding. See what I did there?

If you are assuming Eminem is ignorant as well, perhaps it is because he has eschewed white culture for rap culture, which apparently is the culture of the uneducated. Now why is that? Because they are good with words? Because they make a living being artists? It seems like people who are disinterested in rap- say,

Barely literate rap star? This is a contradiction of terms if you take it in pieces, a wordsmith who can't read. Together, you get a stereotype- and the barely literate rap star isn't a stereotype of white people, dig? The company that sponsors a successful musician and actor's podcast asking him to make a spoken word

If you listen to the podcast, the audio tech at the recording brought up the fact that everyone has trouble reading the D&D books. Funnily enough, Ice-T used to be on the forefront of defending artists' rights after being crucified by the media for releasing "Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say" with Jello

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