My phone has put itself on airplane mode, and on do-not-disturb, more than once. 

Sometimes I think a certain subset of people heard that aphorism “If you stay silent in the face of injustice you have taken the side of the oppressor” and extrapolated it to “You can never stay silent about any perceived Bad Thing, of any kind or at any level, or you’re also a bad person.” So hassling someone you…

Sounds more like dad just wanted to be left alone.

Oh well, we can’t live without them now. Mine keeps calling 911 while it’s in my pocket. Might be a plus one of these days, lol.

I finally got my first proper cell phone last year. Hate ‘em.

Yeah, those exist now. A friend had one last Halloween. The pixel resolution was awfully low, but I can see how in a few years they might become the standard kind of mask -- you can reuse it again and again because you can send different faces to it and even do animations.

We have, what two, generations now who are growing up inside of the “matrix”? What with AI, rampant misinformation, shit journalism and reality tv, it’s getting harder to distinguish fiction from non-fiction, actors from personas. And then there are just a lot of lonely people who are drawn to celebrities (or…

You gotta love Martin ripping into Tolkien for reviving Gandalf, even as he brings back Catelyn Stark (sorry, “Lady Stone heart”). I’d add Jon Snow to that too, but who the hell knows if that’ll happen in The Books That Were Promised.

They should just say that when they left the microverse she went to the wrong dimension and died in that What If episode where she was a giant zombie.

For real. Like technically the guy in ROTJ that crashed his A-Wing into the Executor had a name, Arvel Crynyd. Every Ewok had a name, like Logray, Paploo, Chirpa, Wicket, etc. That guy that Han threw a toolbox at in the shield substation was named Dyer. It’s gonna be like that. We’ll see Phyla-Vell from Guardians 3…

It is an Event Horizon ref! I’ve seen it twice within the span of 20 years, and a lot has not aged well (MAJOR editing issues in particular), but the ship designs are admittedly really cool and Sam Neil is sufficiently creepy.

How about more awkward foot stuff with Alicent?

You completely missed the point of Laena’s death. Her baby was never born. She knew she would die in childbirth. She chose to be immolated by her dragon because she was a dragon rider - you know, a warrior - and wanted to die a warrior’s death. She may not have been a character that was around for a long time, but she…

Personally, I find Agent 47 with hair off-putting. Also, the movie’s title is spelled wrong, leading people to believe that it’s not a video game adaptation at all.

Yeah this idea that women on GoT/HotD experience more gratuitous violence than men is frankly insane. Funniest moment of this discourse is when the Game of Thrones writers clearly preempted internet outrage when [spoiler!] they chose to cut away to Grey Worm’s reaction when Missandei is beheaded instead of showing it…

I mostly agree with these suggestions. But I can’t buy the criticism of the childbirth scenes. The same negative reaction seems to arise whenever graphic violence is visited on women in the Game of Thrones universe, whether it be sexual assaults or the stabbing of the pregnant Talia Stark. I share some of the shocked…

The main problem with the first season is that they were covering roughly twenty years worth of events in ten episodes. They didn’t have the time to make smaller characters feel more realized or to give moments time to feel their weight. My hope is some of those issues disappear now that the main event is upon us in…

You’re seriously misremembering Laena’s death. Or deliberately misrepresenting it to make your point.

I can do it in 2 steps

Do they want to come across Sam Neil with his eyes gouged out? Because THAT'S how you come across Sam Neil with his eyes gouged out.