What is it with Ricks?

Chicken or egg, though? Does the responsibility lie with an andro-centric film genre creating a fanbase that skews male, or with a heavily-male audience demanding to see only men as rounded characters onscreen? When we're talking about the creators of new Star Wars, it makes sense to talk about the side of that…

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Words: Eyes up here, pal.

We need the final word from HBO's CEO of Tits. Where's that guy when you need him?

The tricky bit is that the books are like that, to a degree. Like when I read book one, I was half-convinced there was going to be some kind of "Ned's not dead" hail-Mary because Arya's far away, and averts her gaze when the blade falls. The show can't (or at least doesn't) leave room for that kind of doubt.

I know right? Why are people even debating this? It's well-established in canon that Cersei has dentata.

Totally. The only way that quote isn't just stomach-turning is if the on-set material went one way, and the choices in the editing bay went another. But still, he had to have seen a rough cut by that point, right? Just ew.

The only way his comment makes sense and isn't horrible is if they had been trying to go for some kind of Rashomon perspective thing (Jaime interprets consent, a la the books' description, but Cersei/reality begs to differ). But if that was the goal, boy did they fail to inject any ambiguity into the scene.

Right? Not suspicious even a little bit at all!

If the AV Club is like most operations, headlines get written by the layout folks/editors, not the article authors. It's a pretty common problem for an article to get misrepresented in favor of drawing more attention to itself by being provocative.

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Let me add nothing to this conversation, other than to indicate my happiness to see somebody sporting the best Hellboy quote ever for their username. Good show!

I say only "in his day" because most of his talk show comments have made the D&D stuff sound like something he's not up to anymore, however much he still appreciates it. Though if he does still play, I would not be at all surprised.

I kind of agree, but team him up with his buddy Mike Phirman and the annoying bits of his act seem to fade away.

Mean, maybe, but I'm familiar with that bit from the "Best Of" DVD and I think it's hilarious. This is coming from a person pretty deep in the geekier end of the nerd pool. Magic-playing, D&D-running, pop culture-obsessing, public radio-listening, Lovecraft-reading, convention-attending, etc., etc. Pretty sure I'm not…

For my part, I'm not interested in drawing any lines — jokes at the expense of autism or anyone else follow the usual rules: all's fair game as long as it's funny. I also think the best humor comes from a kernel of observed truth, or an exaggeration of truth. Some of the go-to nerd/ASD punchlines just happen to be…

There's definitely a stretch where she's around more than Wallace!

When it comes to nerds eating their own, I think an element of it is how enthusiasm-based a lot of nerd culture is. And when you're exploring something or someone who shares that same particular nerd zeal, it's a pretty safe place to goof around, do some teasing and try out your best, mouth-breathingest nerd-voice.

This is truth. However, I think it's also true that lots of nerds end up with a grab-bag of expert-level nerd skillz just due to their instincts. A new field of nerd-dom? It must be mastered.