Given how everyone talks about the female leads, I'm surprised there weren't a lot more joke giving it the D votes.

Comey was indifferent to whether there were tapes and realized that he could call the bluff and kick Trump in the balls at the same time at zero cost. This same thought process goes on in much the world these days when they ponder how to react to our foreign policy unforced errors.

They're hugely disproportionately white, as are most of the criminals in Marvel's street-level comics set in New York from the same era (and afterwards). Marvel knew what it would look like to have its overwhelmingly white stable of superheroes roughing up young black men so into the '90s you still have these vaguely…

Ennis strikes me as the kind of guy to tell people adapting his work to keep him the fuck out of it, a la Alan Moore. Conversely, I can see marketing guys saying that Ennis's name has no cachet and using it can only cause people to start sniffing around his other work and discovering that he wrote a hooker superhero…

Sucks to movies. I want my Masters of Rome prestige drama series.

I feel a little bad for Jane, because he was all in to play the Punisher right, but all reports are that the director and studio couldn't figure out what they wanted to do. Including the Russian meant going with Ennis Punisher at its most cartoonish, but the movie was unwilling to be a dark slapstick like the comic…

So what's the point? You chide others to "extend" themselves so that they can "figure out what the other side's damage is so that you can have a meaningful conversation" but you have not done so yourself. It's disingenuous.

You're not hearing what I'm saying. I concede that you cannot change minds by telling people they're dumb. I dispute that you know how to change their minds even knowing that, though.

Yeah, it's a real problem, because telling people that they're being emotional, egotistical morons does not change their behavior. But the problem is not that we're failing to recognize the legitimate reasons people are against vaccination. There are no legitimate reasons. Just dumb reasons.

The problem is that they do "think X for no reason." The inability to evaluate information and theories and assign appropriate weights is the root of things like anti-vaccination, chemtrails paranoia and climate denialism (to name only a few). There is zero evidence supporting anti-vaccination. Zero evidence…

I'm not quite sure I understand what you wrote, but assuming that "loosely banned from getting live viruses" means that your health was fragile and therefore you were advised by a medical professional to avoid getting the flu vaccine, then you are actually a strong argument in favor of vaccination. A major reason…

This delusion appears to me to be fairly non-partisan. Ordinarily I hate the false equivalence of "both sides," but it's true here. Living in New York, the majority of the people I run into with this attitude are liberal women, rather than conservative.

That's pretty much it. The unquantified risk of autism is so terrifying and horrible that these parents would not only rather risk death, partial or total paralysis, disfigurement, hearing loss and brain damage for their own child, they're happy to inflict those risks on the rest of the community by introducing gaps…

That song is why I'm going to watch this series. True story.

I was going to write that in some ways it's appropriate to the setting. Geralt's "signs" are supposed to be pretty low-key stuff—more like cantrips than real spells, if you're old enough to remember AD&D. But I'm not sure that it's a design decision so much as a side effect of all the enemies (and Geralt) feeling…

I actually just started playing The Witcher 3 too! So far so good, though the combat system is kind of clunky and underwhelming with a mouse and keyboard. It feels like it probably plays better with a controller, though there's something insubstantial about the magic that just doesn't "feel" right. Maybe that goes…

I am shocked. This is my shocked face.

They're both predicated on learning through repeated losing. They both make a game feature of facially unfair difficulty. They both incrementally reward playthroughs with increased stats, although talented and lucky players can win the game with very little using appropriate strategems. They both have a deep lore…

English is a Germanic language, .gif is an acronymic file extension coined and used by English speakers. Gif is pronounced gif, not jif. QED, Latin.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we shall not put! Seriously though, fuck Latin.