Thanks for the info! I think I know what I'll be listening to on the drive home for Christmas!

I didn't know either, so I looked it up.

I've always just assumed that the kids are getting cooking lessons related to what they will be challenged to do while on the show. I'm fine with that.

I always assumed they were carrying water pots. I never wondered why those water pots always matched their dresses, though.. Peasant fashionistas are hardcore I guess.

I would just do a spastic stab, crouch-stab, stab pattern trying to stab where his shield wasn't and shield where he stabbed. This way sounds much better!

Wait. Whoa. What now?

My favorite in the series is Link to the Past on SNES, but I'd put this one second for sure.

Those were in the form of adorable little Link dolls weren't they? How could you not pick it up and hold it triumphantly right away?

They evolved to turn around to always face you! Clever knights.

My only complaint on replay is that I damned well know how to stab up and stab down; I shouldn't have to wait for some old guy in a dungeon to tell me!

"never trust a woman in blue" — it's right there!

I've never understood the bad reputation of Adventures of Link. I love that game! I've replayed it multiple times as an adult, and maybe I'm blinded by childhood nostalgia, but I still really enjoy it.

I hope you feel better!

What I know of that story is that he got in a car accident that killed two people. The accident was probably his fault, but he wasn't speeding, or driving recklessly, or under the influence. I'm not sure I'm ready to light torches and gather villagers for that one.

Seriously. The really interesting character in this story is this Trinh guy! It sounds like getting punched by the future Marky Mark was barely a blip on his radar.

I am perfectly willing to hope — even believe — that Wahlberg is no longer that pissed off teenaged racist. I'm just not sure that means he deserves to legally pretend he never was. If what is at stake were more like that which is at stake for most felons — difficulty getting a job, difficulty getting into college or…

I do not dispute that one bit. It's abusive, sick, and arguably terrorism (not in the conventional sense). I'm just saying I'm not sure it should be legally classified as animal cruelty.

Exactly. I mean, I'll be honest and admit I grimace a bit in distaste when I see a Facebook friend post a photo posing with a string of dead pheasants or a deer or whatever, but I also grimace in distaste when I see commercial agriculture practices. I can't imagine being able to kill an animal myself (or raise an…

Well, on the other hand, this article notes that they have no evidence that the woman who called to say the rabbit is fine is actually the ex-girlfriend or that the rabbit is, in fact, alive.

Okay, guys, I want to make it clear that I love animals very much and would never condone killing someone's pet, but assuming the rabbit was killed relatively humanely, is this really animal cruelty (beyond the general ethical question of whether all killing of animals for food and fur is cruel)? People kill, skin,…