Other way around. Softporn Adventure was 1981, LGP was five years later in 1986.

My favorite current monomyth is Jessica Jones on Netflix.

You're thinking of Jerry Pournelle, not Barnes as the co-author though. Personally I always liked Niven's solo works like Ringworld.

Such a departure from the Paris Review, playing badly in professional sports teams, and promoting the Intellivision. Oh wait, *Bill* Plympton, not George.

And Stalin was a Georgian who spoke bad Russian his whole life. Sadly, Mao actually *was* Chinese, ruining the generalized 'dictator of X is actually from Y' theory.

"In order to defeat the evil Putt-Putt master, the hero must travel to strange new lands and defeat the puzzles near the Eiffel Tower, a Dutch windmill, and more!"

How about a version where Dora is an adult with a pair of twin daughters that she allows to endanger their lives by going on adventures? Oh wait, that's kind of ripping off The Venture Bros.

M Night might quote mine you as saying "I really loved the … movie … of The Last Airbender"

But the Mexican food in AZ is great. It's the Sonoran influence that you don't get in Tex-Mex and Southern Californian styles.

No. I know Barry is viewed as a joke by most of the white population for his many personal vices such as drug addiction, but he wasn't a Rob Ford style scumbag who neglected his duty in office. He cared a *lot* about the plight of the poor and disenfranchised, having been part of the civil rights movement in the 1950s…

But wouldn't they think Gaad was in on it and attacked poor Maily in order for it to be sent out for repair? And that he got killed because the KGB was pissed that he got fired.

Exactly. I like AV Club, but it talks about pop culture pretty much exclusively (duh). But reddit has a subreddit for everything — my subfield of science, the programming languages I use, and even the city I live in. The comparison to Usenet is a good one, but probably one which only us olds get.

The thing about the first episodes was it was basically just Bojack being a jerk. Which can be funny — I mean that's pretty much the schtick of Archer after all. But later on he *realizes* he's being a jerk even if he's not really capable of changing, and as he said "life is a series of closing doors". It's basically…

And it shows the main character cares. I mean, taking off your shoes, whether at a friend's house or in a demon-infested complex, is just common courtesy.

Except that "South America is Naziland" is itself one of those controversy things. Yes, some Nazis like Mengele went there after the war, but there are a *lot* of South Americans with German-sounding surnames who are actually descendants of European Jews.

There's something to be said for the idea that darkness in fiction works better when society is doing well. The "dark and gritty" feel in comics started in the 1990s when (at least in the US) things were going well — the Cold War was won, and it looked like America was only going to get more and more powerful as it…

Yeah, but the Indiana Jones Nazis are still pretty lighthearted. They aren't shown committing genocide — they are just trying to get a treasure. Yes, one that they think will help them rule the world, but basically they are presented as no eviler than typical henchmen in a Roger Moore James Bond movie.

It's a quote from Repo-Man (cult film from 1984). As were the plate of shrimp comments. Watch it if you haven't (or even if you have). It's not on Netflix, sadly.

Basically Vietnam (which was really a JFK, or even Eisenhower idea) made people forget all the good stuff that LBJ did.

I'm not quite old enough to be a IBM 5100 user, but as a user of early 1980s computers, we basically had playmates rendered in ASCII that we downloaded off BBSes and printed. If the image was spread out over about five pages you had something that was worth wacking off to as a teen, but only just. I'm aware how old…