I'm trying to reply to thomasrhys, but it won't let me.

There's not a ton of wish fulfillment in Don Draper. I mean at first, sure, but his whole
character revolved for years around longing and around how insufficient the drinking and smoking and finger banging Bobbi Barrett is. Now he's mostly just becoming old and increasingly irrelevant and failing to keep up with his…

It's actually really interesting how the mainstreaming of science fiction coincides with television. in the UK it happened more than a decade earlier when Quatermass was second only to the coronation as far as Television events go.

Is this really whedon-y? I liked Buffy but everything he's done since is super overrated and his dialogue style's gotten more and more irritating.

It's full of overdescriptions of food and objects, lacks psychological depth, is creepy about sex, and overemphasizes worldbuilding.

What's the big deal about Game of Thrones? I tried to read it and it was like Redwall had a baby with Gor.

I honestly think that it worked because, and only because, we know what happens to Van Gogh. We know he dies. We know it's within a few years of the episode. We know that it's suicide. It makes him seem more like a terminal patient than a regular character. The fact he's unsavable makes it more compelling.

Rand adored architecture because it could confer a sense of the sublime but it was also man made and therefore a manifestation of our superior tool-and-penis-using skills.

Man, just fuck you Rabin. Seriously.

I think the superiority of Abed's pillowfort is supposed to be apparent in its aesthetic. If you look at the picture above the post, it's all clean lines and precise angles, and it's definitely roomier. It's more architectural.

Actually Moreso is in the OED entry for the word 'more' as a variant spelling of more so. So you're pedantic, but incorrect.

New Vegas is actually by a different studio, Obsidian Entertainment.  Bethesda contributed QA and support, since Obsidian was unfamiliar with the technology, and it was published under their imprint. So while the core gameplay is the same they have different philosophies when it comes to things like encounter design,…

If you want a good RPG that isn't anime, Elder Scrolls, or Bioware, go with Fallout: New Vegas. Plays sorta like an Elder Scrolls game, but in terms of content, quest design, etc, it's quite different. It's a bit buggy, but not super buggy.

"Nordic take on Tolkien" is redundant. Middle Earth is Nordic as fuck, to the point where there are actually some pretty troubling racial connotations for LOTR and Fantasy that imitates it. Particularly with regard to Orcs and Tolkien's characterization of them as Asian (seriously, compare an Orc to Tokio Kid)