Never read past book 4, so couldn't tell you. Certainly up until then, on the surface at least, the books were presenting fate and parentage as the main determinants of character.

Yes, this. I really dislike this aspect of Harry Potter - the almost total submission to the aristocratic ideal (and, for that matter, to equally repulsive ideas like the sorting hat). I think Rowlings subverts it a tiny bit in like book 6 or whatever when one of the bad kids challenges Voldemort or something (?) but…

@avclub-8b5e7836dd068601d1d820b4147fde37:disqus no, no, you see, he REALLY LIKES black people, it's not that he's doing her a favour, she's doing HIM a favour, and so it's not racist at all!

Yeah, he's the one who's clueless here…

I'm an L-A-Arch and I'm here to say
I lose needles in a deciduous way

Dude, that was clearly a very well-rehearsed guest spot with the blessing of everyone else on stage (including Harrison's kid). You can't throw a guitar 10 feet up in the air at random and just expect a roadie to catch it. He was meant to be a surprise for the audience. And he was - it's one of the most fantastic…

And it couldn't slow down to less than 25.

I was thinking it sounded a lot more like The Magic Christian, but possibly slightly coherent. Then again I haven't seen Holy Motors, so who knows?

Is this actually the real secret? Oh well…

Actually I think both of those would make awesome inventories. The weirder and more specific the better.

To be fair, Halo actually had an explanation - your "healing" is actually the suit's shield recharging. If you get hit when your shields are down, you pretty much just die.

Vocabulary, not grammar.

LCD screens don't really generate static electricity. Sad but true.

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus You're thinking of Asuka Rangyu Sore or however you spell it. Weird, weird dude.

He only ever made like 10 posts or something, didn't he? Anyways, yeah, these yunguns don't know what it was like for us back then. Not even a like button!

You mean by fapping all over the screen, right?

Well, according to him she's more of a bottom, but you're right, his defining that for her could be the problem…

"does the job", huh?  You sick bastard.

@avclub-b991e1dcd51bcef155428c414a0e056b:disqus hot skiing sucks. Trust me on this one.

Too much potential for fapping.