Sorry about that.  I guess I just assumed that a taste for endless, pornographic violence was more a male thing.

Dude, RA Salvatore is one of the worst writers ever.  Comparing him to Pratchett is a gruesome injustice.

I fear your mind is so open your brain has fallen out.

Can you present ANY positive evidence that Shakespeare couldn't have written his stuff?  Or is it all just this circumstantial "oh ho ho, there's NO WAY he could've known any Italian!" stuff?  Because, uh, that is less than super-convincing.  Without anything more than that to go on, I'm really not sure why we're…

Actually, even more than the Richard issue, what REALLY bothered me was the thing with Darren Nichols: he has a complete change of heart in season two, but then in season three, with no explanation or reference to anything that had happened before, he's suddenly precisely back to his old self.  What?

>>The point, rather, is that if Shakespeare was indeed one person, then
he had the largest vocabulary and greatest breadth of knowledge of any
person ever by such an incredibly wide margin that he probably would
have needed to be a super genius AND have had a lifetime to study.

The sequel will be about the slightly-less-popular Russian Glass.  And if you get that reference, I want to have a non-poisoned drink with you.

I hadn't read a Discworld novel in some time, but I picked up Unseen Academicals and thought it was pretty great.  Dunno about these endless Watch novels, though.  I have difficulty summoning much excitement about MORE damn Vimes.

Maybe, but they just made him SO MUCH more horrible than he had ever been before.  I mean, some slippage, okay, fair enough, but it just got to the point of caricature.

Piss Christ is not a crucifix in a jar of urine.  It's a *photograph* of a crucifix in a jar of urine.  I feel as though a poster with a Magritte username should get the distinction.

I didn't like how they redeemed him in the first series and then went back and made him irredeemably evil in the last.  That felt mean to me, and not artistically justified.

Whoa, man, a new Thomas Dolby album?  I find this exciting beyond all reason.

It was!  And you know what else?  So was "One of Our Submarines."  When you get right down to it, very few of the artists that people cite as "one-hit-wonders" actually are.

I would say that as far as the early stuff goes (which is pretty far), Blue Valentine is a better album than Small Change by a fair margin.

I think it's kind of pointless to compare them to Heroes, but I love the original games.  M&MI was one of the first game I ever played, on my parents' ancient Mac.  And I cannot TELL you how addicted I was to World of Xeen.  The later ones (VI-VIII) get a little goofy with the monster-quantity, but they're still good…

It's worth noting that IV was the last one developed by New World Computing before they went belly-up and Ubisoft got the license.

I can't help thinking that the series was basically perfected with III.  After that, continuing seems somehow pointless.

I really don't think that he tailors his show according to what random people on the internet think.

Wow, that IS wonderful.  How had I never seen it before?

Thank you!