I thought it was meant to imply that Velcoro had helped her at some point—crooked cop who dishes out Real Justice on the side kind of thing. Partially explains why she was okay with him sleeping it off in her bar, and probably will be relevant down the road.

Taylor didn't have sex with the speeder. We can be pretty sure of that, because he's impotent, and appears to regard sex with his girlfriend as a chore.

I know, and not needing the calories to maintain an additional set of sturdy forelimbs frees up all kinds of energy for firebreath. Checkmate, AD&D 2nd Edition. ists.

I think you're overestimating longbows here. You're talking, realistically, about 100 lbs of force. The real life actress Rose Leslie might not be able to muster that, but it's well within the range of normal women. Also, I'm not sure where the video gets the idea that keeping a bow drawn is as hard as drawing it. …

Whew, thank god I can stop enjoying things with super heroes in them now that someone has finally taken them down a peg with a handy infographic featuring such categories as "too many minor comic book character cameos."

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Drogon is a Mark's Daily Apple reader. Paleo all the way.

In the books it's not Jaqen, or at least I'm not aware of any reason to think that it is.

Did Sonia Saraiya start writing under a pseudonym?

A corollary to this is that Portishead making £1,700 off of streaming is an incomplete measure of income. In order to know what the streaming actually brought in, you'd need to know (or estimate) how many people bought albums, singles, concert tickets and merch after having streamed who would not have otherwise. …

This is a battle that was lost literally centuries ago. The usage of "decimate" to mean "destroy a large portion of" dates back to the 1660s, back when Latin was virtually universal for educated people.

How is Autoclave not in that list?

All Hail West Texas is an amazing album, but it's hard for me to get too on board with any argument about which Mountain Goats album is "the best." Each one is so different from the others, it's kind of weird to even compare them. Tallahassee and Sunset Tree share similar production, and both have clearly defined…

But not killing Dwayne means listening to him talk endlessly about how bad his life sucks.

Yeah, they're going to hate it! https://medium.com/the-nib/…

Isn't that the point of a moral dilemma? I understand that you're saying this one is forced, but if you can discern a relatively morally superior choice, then you're no longer faced with a moral dilemma.

Here's something to consider: by far the most potent killing device on planet Earth is the United States Military. Save for the President at the very top, it is a self-contained unit. In many (most?) other countries, a powerful military tends to be a powerful political force, and very often eventually displaces the…

There are a couple of moments in In the Loop where you realize exactly how out of his depth Simon Forster is that are actually kind of chilling. He seems smarter and more cynical than the Americans at first because of the cursing and theatricality, but at the end of the day he's really just a backwater lackey who…

Good job internet, like, ten years ago.

No, Mountain 2 was worse than Mountain 3. Both were inferior to Conan Stevens, who brought to the table the irreplaceable experience of actually having raped, murdered and killed the children of Elia Martell.