Every time I look at CNN, it just seems like the news is trying to fuck me right in the eyes.  Three or four news trackers, two, three, even four heads chattering about.  Even their website is inanely busy.

The GOP is all for 'balanced' reporting, which ignores the fact that one side may be completely fucking nuts.  I don't always watch Frontline, but they really do a good job of making sure you know that, say, Jenny McCarthy is not just nuts, but a fucking dangerous human being.

I have doubts about any strictly movie channel surviving for very long. Why need a channel when you can get most of these old movies on Netflix, and the trivia from Wikipedia.

I love the BBC too, but I'm not sure if it would work easily in the US.  They get all their money from the license fees each British person pays on their TVs every year, and from selling their stuff abroad, which is consistent, but never huge.  In a way, their kind of like a public library… they want to provide things…

Isn't it all just about money, in the end?  Making a good documentary, such as a good BBC nature documentary, takes a lot of expertise, luck and time to get good shots. The BBC documentary series Earth cost $25 million to make (as far as Google could tell me at least).  Part of the reason the History Channel had a lot…

For me, the best moment of this show was when the group got up on their roof and fired a laser at the moon to bounce it off the reflector that one of the Apollo missions put there.  Like it should, the laser was invisible, and they clustered around a computer to see the laser bounce back.  I thought to myself "How…

The Cheesecake Factory at our local mall looks like something a really cheap Genie would conjure up.  It even has little decorative glass dishes on the backs of each booth that, I shit you not, look just like the Eye of Sauron.

You know what, I have never played D&D without at least one lady being part of the game.  Right now, the game I play is 50/50.  And the best roleplayers I've ever played with have all been women.   I still remember this tiny, cute theater-nerd woman, who within 2 hours of getting a character sheet was enthusiastically…

And Ben doesn't really force his geekiness on anyone unless he's being  clueless (like when he planned his own bachelor party to have a marathon of Homeland), and he's always happy to change those plans if the group objects.

I don't hate it… I'm disappointed by it.  For example, I was watching a repeat the other day, where they were playing Settlers of Catan, and the were making a joke about having Wood, and wanting Sheep.  You know, the same joke *every person* that has ever played Catan has made.

My theory:  Nerd get sick of non-nerds telling them to watch TBBT, assuming they'll love it.

I blame Battlestar Galattica.  I never heard any of this 4.5 bullshit until they realized they couldn't put out more than 8 episodes at a time.

@avclub-ee2e9e1447fcb49c96e19af584ca11b4:disqus  Yeah… I'm still not entirely convinced that the last common ancestor was so recent, since I'm pretty sure there are still some remote parts of the world that have been isolated for 10 to near 50 thousand years (uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, New Guinea, and some…

I heard it written that all humans, everywhere, are at most your 50th cousin.  That may have been reduced somewhat by Europeans going to strange new places and banging everyone there.

Yeah… but, I honestly found that lore to be pretty convoluted and ridiculous a pretty good portion of the time.  Its a tough challenge, adapting stuff like that, and it seems more likely to spit out a Green Lantern than a Iron Man.

Fixed, Sorry, John Constantine Denton!

I agree, one of the great things about video games is you always care about the main character, because he/she is you. Because things are happening to you, you care a lot more easily than if they were happening to, say, The Rock.  Suddenly you have to characterize the protagonist, and often times there is no one…

And you spend a lot of your time zoomed super far out too.

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And you never saw Everquest, where it would take days to level, you'd lose xp if you died, and your items, and everyone wanted to kill the same monster as you.  WoW was significantly better than its original competition.

What did we even get out of the Timbermaw?  I remember there were exactly 15 guys that gave rep, and 200 people trying to do it, but I can't remember the goal.