I love NIN, though I will say TDS as an album is very, very hard to listen to from beginning to end. It crushes your soul over and over and doesn't let up (except briefly for "A Warm Place", which is beautiful).

I don't necessarily mind being at a show where the artist stops to let the crowd sing part of the song, and being part of that crowd can be an invigorating experience - but I think if it's being recorded for a live album, the artist should nix that shit, because people are going to be buying the record, which should…

I don't believe Courtney killed Kurt, but that's a shitty fucking argument. IF (and again, I don't believe she did, but IF) Courtney murdered Kurt, the fact that he had been suicidal in the past would do nothing but take suspicion OFF of her, if she was wise enough to make it look like a suicide, because everyone…

I have to preface my opinion with Kids with the fact that I only saw it once, when I was 14. I thought it sucked, and was nothing but shock value for shock value's sake. "Oooh, here's a bunch of underage kids doing drugs and having sex, how scandalous!" Granted, I haven't watched it again since, and it's possible that…

I used to believe Courtney hired someone to kill Kurt. I have since come around on the matter, realized I had some of my facts wrong, and no longer subscribe to that theory.

At the time I thought Bart did it because in the TV guide spread of all of Springfield's residents lined up, Bart was the only one smiling in the whole picture. That was my reasoning.

As I said in another thread, the time to leave this show in outrage was over the Cersei rape scene, and the subsequent handling of the fallout of that scene, last season. I almost did, but decided to keep going. Since then, the show has done nothing as odious as that scene, so if you kept watching after that, I don't…

Hopefully not. They are grating in any discussion. If there are any still left now, they'll be unbearable.

What surprised me is that one of the spears clearly ripped a hole in Drogon's wing, yet he was still able to fly. I really thought they were setting us book readers up for a cruel surprise there by having him hobbled by a punctured wing, but no, he could still fly. Would that work in real life?

"I want them to make a movie series out of the Dark Tower"

After Nimoy's death I was joking about taking bets for last TOS cast member standing, since it's now down to her, Shatner, Takei, and Walter Koenig. Consensus seems be her far ahead, with Takei a distant second.

I love how Stannis fanboys are all like "Stannis has unquestionable birthright to the throne!" when Robert Baratheon didn't exactly win it by birthright. He won it by being on the side of the people who killed the shit out of the previous king, and then sitting his ass down in the fucking chair. So don't give me this…

So then, you're telling me that vinyl DOESN'T sound warmer. OK then, explain to me why that assessment is incorrect, and what would be a way of describing vinyl's sound that would be acceptable and non-hipsterish to you, sir.

Shhh, don't tell this to the irrational Stannis fanboys who think Stannis is the ONE TRUE HEIR, END OF STORY. They'll go apeshit!

You could in theory have a point there, but in (story) reality it's more like, "minding her own business and making a right fuckery of ruling Meereen".

So, anyone who likes vinyl is a hipster. Good to know. I own a record player, so I guess I'm a hipster, as is probably most of AVClub. Whatever "hipster" even means anymore. I'm not sure, but from what I've seen in recent years, I think it now means "anyone with opinions I find irritating".

It's not the vastness of worlds that bothers me in games - I am impressed by a sense of scale, but I will say, I was never a fan of the "wide-open sandbox" style of gaming. I like an objective in my video games. I get that a game that railroads you can be restrictive, but I'm not a fan of going to the other extreme,…

Yep. Always thought they were dicks for the way they treated Jason. Hazed the shit out of him for the unforgivable crime of not being Cliff Burton. Dicks.

"When it comes to Metallica there are a few things that are unequivocally true. "

This might be the one time the Olsen twins have ever showed a modicum of good taste for once.