Yay for false equivalences.

Deb needs to get it on with her therapist.  C'mon, you know you're all thinking it.  Sure, it would be fucking ludicrous, but as you say, there ain't nothing ELSE worth watching for.

That's not what "prior" means.

An' let's not forget about the Magic Search Engine that lets you find names of people who mysteriously aren't on google!  That's some gooooood writin,' you betcha!

An' another thing, and this isn't necessarily a 2D-vs-3D thing, though the transition certainly facilitated it: people who say that OoT is basically LttP in 3D seem to have somehow gotten their hands on special-edition versions of LttP that feature enormous, featureless, pointless overworlds.  I feel cheated.  No I…

He or she said that.  I corrected him or her.  I'm not sure what the problem is here.

The gameplay, atmosphere—it's all completely different.  The fact that there are eight-ish dungeons and you get a bow and boomerang does not make the substance of the games remotely the same.

Personally, I don't rank ANY of the 3-D Zelda games especially highly.  I mean, I guess they're okay for what they are, but "what they are" sure doesn't seem to have much resemblance to the games I fell in love with.

I believe you'll find it's about six season too many, actually.

That's why I liked it, really: nothing against the fantastical elements, but I feel like there's a point at which Murakami sort of uses them as a crutch.  It was a good idea to consciously restrict himself like that.

That WAS the point of his killing.  But the writers changed it without noting it any way or, almost certainly, even being aware of it.  This is because they're lazy hacks.

Hell's bells!  Try this:

OMG, you guys, I found this leaked preview of season seven:http://tinyurl.com/c275julL… like a definite step up from what we've BEEN getting, at any rate.

I actually liked Lumen a fair bit.  Whether it would have been a dramatic success or night, if they'd kept her on as Dexter's serial-killin' girlfriend, it would at least have been something DIFFERENT, which is desperately needed at this point.  So, of course, it didn't happen.  Okay, so maybe it also wouldn't have…

"Fascist," obviously.

"A cross between Time and Newsweek on television?"  Am I the only one who thinks that sounds fucking horrible?  A teevee version of our favorite print sources for inane, facile conventional wisdom?  Where do I sign up?!?

Awesome.

I hate doing this shit.  But Soul Music, Small Gods, Hogfather, Night Watch, Interesting Times.

I disagree with you, but I will defend your right to hold those opinions to the death.  Well, not the death; let's not get carried away.  But certainly to the thirty-page sword fight with eighteen hundred orcs.

>>why does the burden of proof fall completely to the anti-Stratfordian side?