The question marks translate to "someone in Silicon Valley buys us."

I get that you're being salty right now but I can't think of anyone in those areas where the popular faces are decided on who least resembles the norm.

Yeah. Hipsters on a website I definitely don't know about tell me who and what to like and what Stephen King writing tics to use. It's tough.

It must be hard being a victim all the time.

Look at the fandom for both of those shows. Not only are they canonically nerdy subjects but the big draw is their perceived reality: Game of Thrones gets excused a lot with 'historical precedent' and The Walking Dead is all about what our society would be like in a zombie apocalypse, not to mention the effort that…

The Sisters Brother by Patrick DeWitt: Did you like The Coen Brothers' version of True Grit? Patrick did. He liked it so much that he wrote his own downbeat western with two dim but violent smalltime crooks, quirky minor characters, hinted at spirituality, flashes of nihilism and a fortune that ends up in someone…

If only we could all be as Down To Earth as you.

You have no idea about the England, north, south or otherwise, if you think UKIP is taking over from Labour because of jobs, and that talking about science jobs would get people voting for them again.

That's because the ideology of the centre left is kowtowing to the right.

The problem with pop science is that outside of the curated TV experience, all the personalities start to reveal themselves as the same kind of boring nerds from high school who fucking loved science and had little else going for them. Tyson's gimmick of being a smug pedant online falls too much inline with the…

You shouldn't post if you don't know what pedantic means.

I liked “[Death Note] is more along the tone of The Guest, but something completely different” as if that doesn't mean a direct adaptation of the anime full of De Palma style ironic references to other, better things.

The internet collectively drumming up excuses for Blair Witch might be my favourite online reaction of 2016.

Event Horizon is Alien in the 90s: great science fiction until it turns into a horror based around characters acting like dunces.

Movies are so devoid of emotional content that anything more advanced than a Christopher Nolan explaining the plot for ninety minutes movie gets treated like Tarkovsky. The Grey excels because, like No Self says, it's blue collar guys talking about (and mostly regretting) their blue collar lives, done in a way that…

And a very young Tom Cruise too.

From orbit, too. Just to be sure.

I know Trump isn't president (yet?) but he's one of two people in the running and yet this is how he acts on TV, with a fawning host to go along with it. American politics is always scary but this is really bizarre. Also, it's my standard knee-jerk reaction to a lot of this sort of thing but can you imagine just how…

Memes and poor literacy.

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