Some jokes just write themselves.  Repeatedly.

Yes yes, a thousand times yes.

What we're talking about is whether maps serve as an "authorial crutch."  You seem to think authors have some sort of moral obligation to render absolutely everything of importance in their prose, and that any extra material is somehow lacking in writerly virtue.  Or worse yet: compromising the virtue of the reader,…

The Beatles did kind of tour for Revolver; they just didn't play any songs from it.  My music history professor told me he went to one of their 1966 concerts when he was a kid, and that they played the album before the show as warm up music.  That's kind of weird.

Bowie is as Bowie is; gender does not apply to him, except when it does for the sake of convenience, such when as choosing which public restroom to use.

Afghamistan, the simple fact is that maps do not do what you think they do.  You have an insurmountable bias and that's fine, but please keep it away from those of us who like maps.

It's not quite accurate to say that everyone has the same job and each district makes only one thing.  Peeta is the son of a baker, and Katniss's mother is a traditional healer.

I think that may be more or less what he's saying.

That's true, but the mapmakers have to contend with the canonical information given in the book.  They also have the ability to assume that there are more cataclysmic upheavals than simply a rise in sea level.  If something were to  cause catastrophic erosion in the Pacific coast states, in combination with massive…

FIRE CAN HAVE TWO
SYLLABLES IF YOU PRONOUNCE
THE "R" WITH A SCHWA.

I'm underwater.  Do I win?

You never specified they had to be fantasy maps.

I have tons of books with maps, most of which are neither fantasy nor science fiction.  Is there something wrong with having a visual reference for a narrative?

It's not that crazy.  Assuming the population crashed in all of those ecological disasters that led to the creation of Panem, plus the war, there might only be a few hundred thousand people in the whole country.

Care to make a specific criticism?  It seems as though they know quite a bit.

Just watched that.  Quit shadowing my life, damn you!

Funny, sir.  But I don't think you'll ever manage to convince me that a horse has any less interest in protecting its head than a human does.  Even if it can take a heavier beating, it doesn't make it a painless experience.

I think punching a horse in the face is probably exactly as painful as punching a human in the face.

Because nothing about the term "exploitation" requires that those being exploited be unaware or unwilling.  Saying it isn't exploitation because they knew what they were getting into is missing the point entirely.

What's your basis for saying that, @avclub-e26d68e86ee6c41ac90ca1669ecb9a3e:disqus ?  Because it's a gender specific insult?  Because it refers to genitalia?