I think we may be past the spoiler-warning period for this particular IP.

Summary: Europe and Asia had more easily accessible natural resources plus easier to domesticate animals, which is why (rather than any inherent superiority of their cultures or people) they developed technology quicker and so dominated the rest of the world through trade and colonialism. It makes sense, although many…

Well, something's clearly afoot.

Do you actually believe short selling is “greedy”? Is that your actual position or just one for the sake of snark. Because it isn’t Shorting a stock is not greedy. However, one could certainly make the argument that certain investors on Reddit have pumped and dumped this stock. Which you appear to helping them do.…

I often feel terrible for the way the internet treated this very genuine and delightful theatre girl a few years back.

Well, if Whedon’s exit from his HBO series was a direct consequence of impropriety on his part, that would be a remedy, I guess...

For someone who’s released a number of classic rock albums, dude sure has a massive amount of dud albums covers. Besides Born to Run, has he had a particularly “iconic” cover that’s risen above passable? I guess some would say “denim-clad ass” from Born in the USA, but nah. 

I’m tired of trying to paint Taylor Swift as some schemer (even if you are trying to make it seem like a good thing now to try to avoid coming off as misogynist, which it totally is!) Particularly, since your big example of how she is such a clever and elaborate schemer is that she’s re-recording her songs which is…

Yay for another year of Dowd in Cannes. Looking forward to it as always.

A good tip is always nice. 20-25% is more than reasonable. 50% is WTF?

Tipping 50% is weird. It’s like you’re both apologizing and trying prove to the waitstaff you’ll never see again you aren’t the low-class ruffians you appear to be. It probably has the opposite effect, too, and they think you’re either recent lottery winners or are on the run after knocking over a Wawa.

Who the fuck upvoted this guy? I say upvoted, coz only one awful person did it.

I’ll take your sarcastic apology[.]

I’m sorry my description of five people being murdered was insufficiently cheery.

Stan Lee Man, Stan Lee Man

Anyone else out there think that since “RadioLab” has largely abandoned science stories they aren’t anywhere near as good as they used to be?

Hmm... I hate Dan Carlin. He uses the “I’m a fan of history, not a historian” gimmick as an excuse to spew out sensationalist bullshit, which is then parroted by listeners. I teach a course on the First World War and the amount of bizarre misconceptions I have heard attributed to Dan Carlin is seriously aggravating.…

Yeah, who wants to see a beloved entity be taken over by some corporate overlords? Why that’d be like this here AV Club being purchased by some large conglomerate and shifting its editorial viewpoint to accommodate their new corporate masters.

Mama, just fucked a kid

I’m so glad the AV Club became merged with Kinja so you could share bullshit articles about Taylor Swift insulting Kanye’s dead mom. What hateful nonsense, and your endorsement of it should be questioned.