The key is to put the firecrackers inside as you build them.

It's worse now, because you have so many options the combats take forever.  You can't advance half a level in 5 hours.

Agree with everything Hiro Protagonist wrote.  I was excited to see this piece (I was one of those who encouraged Todd to do this in the comments of that AVQ&A where he originally brought it up), but yeah, Traveller at a con sounds like the worst experience.  Maybe it was best that one player called out the GM, so at…

D&D will be around as long as video games have dialogue trees.  Eventually you gotta break free.

whataworkout you might be right.  My Catholic high school had a D&D group that met in one of the classrooms after school, and this was right around the Satanicpanic time

Most of Season 2 of The Wire (just started the series, inexplicably).  Not nearly as good as the first season (casting, story), and kind of confusing, but still excellent.

Dammit Barnito, posting a mildly disguised firstie and getting all these earnest fanboys to play along.

He started with $5 million of David's money, so it'll be awhile before he has to brev for food again.

Most of Adult Swim's live-action stuff has been pretty good at this point.  The only steaming pile was Fat Guy Stuck in Internet (though I may be blocking out one or two failed series), so I think the network has overcome everybody's misgivings when they started using actors instead of cartoons (and I'm with you on…

Here's a classic:  Sebastian Dangerfield from The Ginger Man.
 
He's not a ginger, yet he is an asshole.
 
Sadly, his tale is only available in book form.

This comment section is fucked — the topic is a character you love to hate.

And the police chief is Omar ("I'll be cruising in the area . . .")

The Occupy VODKA joke had that "headlines + old schtick = new joke" awesomeness to it.

It's one of the funniest comedies ever made IMO, but not for the jokes in any one episode.  It's funny more because of the way most of the world indulges Jon's worldview and schemes until they fall apart, the way the FBI is powerless to stop the Russian mob (whose members constantly commit crimes like murder in front…

I never fell for the King Kong v. Godzilla fuckorama because even as a wee lad, I understood that, storylines aside, they would have to completely rework one of the monsters.  Godzilla is what, 10 times the size of Kong?  You are never too young to start obsessing about canon.

Those ads told you everything you need to know to watch this show.

In that pic, Russel seems to be enjoying himself. You'd think Murdoc would be more alarmed.

Okay, Team Franzen.

When Tilda Swinton puts on a duh face, it reflects the crushing weight of her awful reality, and she wins awards.  Acting.  When I do it, I get actively ignored.

Josh, how could you not ask about DC's greatest role ever:  Kicking Jay Mascis' ass in Guitar Hero: