Why the results could be downright apocorcalyptic!

Hey there's no "u" in "color."

I don't know if Highgarden is actually particularly populous. Presumably there is a town there, but the Tyrells are one of the younger houses and their supremacy over the Reach isn't as well established as the Lannisters' hold on the Westerlands. It's certainly hard to imagine any Lannister vassals jumping ship the…

Yes, but he also likes trains.

He's basically the cliche of the liberal technocrat who can't help condescending to the people he thinks he's sticking up for. On issues of urban planning, for instance, he's convinced that high-density urban areas are the future and treats those of us who don't want to live like Manhattanites as quaint rubes who…

He can take the gold in their treasury, but he can't take the gold that hasn't been mined yet, nor can he seize the (arguably more lucrative) Lannisport trade. Looting the Rock would have destroyed the productive capacity of the whole region for years to come, so in the end simply accepting their surrender and levying…

Hehe, you said "stump."

I've been debating whether to read those preview chapters for like a year now. So far I haven't because, frustrating as the ending of Dance was, getting two/three chapters into the next book and then having to stop again seems like it would be even worse. Every time someone brings them up though, that resolve is taxed…

For the first few books it certainly seemed like the Realm was likely to split in two what with the North and the Riverlands declaring for Robb (fun little discrepancy, in Clash of Kings, Robb claims everything north of the Trident and west of the Mountains of the Moon, in the show he just asks for "North of the neck"…

Then how come Tywin shits it?

You can make that case but the real problem seems to be the devastation of the Riverlands. If the Lannisters hadn't trampled half the cropland on the Trident (not to mention indiscriminately slaughtering the people who were supposed to be harvesting it) they probably wouldn't have been facing starvation in the first…

Don't get me started on Settlers of Catan. I like it well enough (although two years later I'm still pissed about the game where I started next to two 5s but 5s were never rolled), but I've got a couple board game snob friends who refuse to play it with me because they hate getting screwed by bad luck. I tried to…

I don't really see how this makes sense as an argument. One specific whale killed three people, therefor all killer whales should be set free. How does that follow? Is it outrageous that a literal "killer" whale was allowed to commit three homicides before anyone thought to do something about it? Of course. Is it wise…

I've noticed a similar phenomenon on Something Awful. Wars between cynical, acid-tongued nerds and the manchildren they live to ridicule are nothing new there (their exile of a bunch of creepy anime obsessives helped birth 4chan, for instance), but the Brony contingent has proven remarkably hard to quash and even if…

Holocaust pony cracks me up every time. I'm still not sure if the text underneath is a joke or not.

That shit is amazing. The best part is easily the guy scolding the crowd for throwing glowsticks at little kids.

It seems like girls can get away with liking a lot more "kiddy" stuff than boys — as evidenced by the somewhat disturbing number of grown ass women who still wear pink sweatpants with Hello Kitty on them and dream of being Disney Princesses. In the US it's not really accepted for straight men to like things because…

Some of them are. *Hides under bed*

No idea. After years of seeing the internet overrun with "bronies," I decided to watch the first episode and see what the fuss was about. I didn't even make it ten minutes.

Also I had no idea there were deer in Australia.