Nabin can be a good writer when he's motivated and when his hangups and obsessions don't get in the way. He's much better at writing about bad things than things that he loves.

"a searing, trenchant satire of American culture and the hypocrisy and greed of our cultural institutions"
I think this somehow explains Nabin's terrible Simpsons reviews.

Nabin has got some serious issues.

My big guy just loves to prance around dramatically in front of open windows, and he flicks his tail like crazy. Sometimes he pisses out the window, but you take the bad with the good…

My folks' cat never paid attention to the TV unless I was playing Metal Gear Solid, in which case he would actually make hunting chatter and whack at Solid Snake creepin' around. Like: "whoa, look out! that tiny man is up to no good!"

When I first saw him I said "that man looks like he's wearing a mask of himself". He looks slightly more humanoid these days. Makeup or lighting or something.

STO and its lead-in material is officially an alternate universe from the novels, which are still many years before the game. Worf is unmarried and back in Starfleet for some dumb reason in the novels.

It's surprisingly hard to find any sources that aren't involved in one side or another of some diet war, but Paleolithic life expectancy at age 10 wasn't too much shorter than in 1800 or so. Both were substantially lower than today. The last century has increased age expectancy at birth (by reducing infant mortality)…

@avclub-b20754d0f1e8ae843e00a8b39a667112:disqus He's not a hipster, he's Patrick Bateman.

The most common type of domestic abuse is playing Nickelback where your partner can hear it and refusing to turn it off.

I couldn't remember what song this was until they mentioned the scatting, and then it sprung into my head like some sort of inverse shitty-song Minerva. Uuuuuuuugh.

I also love the episode.

A few loosely connected remarks:

Saying "I'm not okay with what you're doing" and distancing yourself from someone is one thing. Saying "no sex until [non-sex related thing]" is manipulative horseshit.

Jesus, I have never agreed so hard with anything in my life.

You can't cancel Game of Thrones! It's a tentpole! A TENT-POOOOOOLE!

I assume the "renewal" is pretty much exactly like Dany's wedding, except with a bunch of guys in suits crawling up and offering the showrunners chests of currency.

"gratuitous" != "implausible"

What's a CD?

^ totally a cop