I don't know what it is about bad television, but it - more so than anything else - inspires within me a fierce urge to find the people responsible, lock them in a room, and not let them out until I'm convinced that they all truly understand just how badly - and how, specifically - they fucked things up. I would not…

Yes, there have always been problems with the Ghandi/Samurai mashup that Star Wars didn't properly address. Just as the problems with the Sith philosophy made Palpatine the most (potentially) interesting character in the series, the problems with the Jedi philosophy make everyone on the Light Side seem pretty wooden…

@avclub-dc10fce584f2cdf09d6690e0f2883227:disqus Constant expansion has always been, historically, the way to square such a contradiction. It's never stable. It either grows or collapses, and it only grows if there's a constant "distraction" for everybody in the pyramid - like, say, a galaxy-wide conflict with a rival…

From everything I've read, SWG fucked up a lot of really good ideas, and WoW's runaway success made every potential AAA-MMO-developer immediately conclude that anything SWG did that WoW didn't was anathema to making money.

It's funny how some people expect a game to be better than a highly similar game that was released 7 years ago. It's almost as if they expect there to be iterative improvement based on an awareness of what other people have done, the mistakes that other people have made, and the improvements that those same people…

They're both poor means of delivering vital criticisms.

It blows my mind that there are multiple substances in existence which would cause me to enjoy some of this music if I were to ingest them in sufficient quantities.

It was indeed a totally sweet secret.

Well, all the books say you have to let them hit rock bottom, or, as God refers to it, the Stone Age.

The overlap between Catholicism, gullibility, and general bad taste is… significant. And then of course you can add in all of the whack jobs who think the Catholic Church is hiding awesome secrets instead of just mundane-yet-horrific ones like sex abuse and Nazi collaboration.

A little scattershot for a mid-season premiere, but hopefully they'll find their footing. I'd hate to see much more wheel-spinning after Beaver took one for the team so brilliantly.

My problems with perving on CW shows are that 1) as I get older, I find people pretending to be teenagers less and less attractive, even if they themselves aren't teenagers, and 2) the Internet is like right there. While I concede that there's still a cockteasing thrill to be had by watching "legitimate"…

Should've switched to the nicknames, though in fairness Nick didn't last long enough OR make enough of an impression to earn one.

@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus I would contend that phrasing is key. Uttering words to the effect of "she was asking for it" is a bad move. Uttering words to the effect of "the prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that consent wasn't given, was given under duress, or was otherwise…

@tabernacle:twitter You're too kind. If television writing were a true meritocracy, I'd never get a gig, but there is a grim shred of self-satisfaction to be gleaned from being dubbed superior to the who-you-blow crowd.

Disqus hates me, apparently, as much as I hate it.

[Edit: guess how much I hate Disqus. Hint: it's probably double what you're thinking.]

Pretty much all of it, though to be more specific, the legal system is going to have a hell of a time turning a statement like "if you feel violated, then you've been violated" into any kind of a sane, reasonable, uniform rule. And I'm not sure what it's going to do about Mr. Penis-Arms either.

@UninvitedChristopherGuest:disqus I think the general consensus is that it wasn't easy for Gandhi to be outspoken about politics. That's part of what made him a badass motherfucker.

We've long since passed the tipping point where "you can't make this shit up" was almost completely supplanted by "you can't make this made-up shit really happen."