I didn't say it's good. It's just marginally less unusable than I thought.

I just noticed you can expand the comments to usable width by clicking the sticky-outy arrows in the top right. So now I can make the comments readable with two clicks instead of zero clicks. I guess I've suffered worse.

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I'm not saying it was perfect (magic-as-drugs didn't work on any level— I'm guessing they were trying for a mulligan on "Beer Bad" with only slightly more success), but I do think there was enough real brilliance in there to balance out the misfires. And it had jokes, or at least a sense of humor about itself.

Season 6 earned its scares and its darkness. I don't get people who think S6 was too depressing, especially coming on the heels of the endless wallow of S5. ( I know I'm in a tiny minority, but I really didn't like S5.) I think of S6 as the part where they remembered that jokes exist.

I'm still vaguely annoyed with myself for being blindsided by it. Amber Benson's name in the opening credits should have been a major tip-off. Tara was so central at that point; specifically, in S6, she was the glue holding the gang together. She was everyone's anchor to sanity. She was the one person Buffy wanted…

I'm still partial to "Topsy"-era Mr. Ambrose, when he was a fan of starting shit and watching from a distance. Maybe it's character growth or something that he's now starting shit and getting in the middle of it (he's correcting his one flaw!), but it kind of pushes him over the line from amusing weirdo to headache.…

War farts!

There's a depressing pattern in the Xbox One's backwards-compatibility list. Most of the major X360 titles are backwards compatible and can be played for free with a copy of the original disc, but not the ones that have been re-released for the newer hardware. You can play your original copy of Oblivion on Xbone,…

Has any character ever made a better on-screen exit than Darla did for the fourth and final time (Angel S3E9 "Lullaby")?

When I'm driving through Arkansas, I like to keep a running count of how many churches/Christian bookstores I pass versus strip clubs/porn shops. It's usually about 50/50.

*Sigh* I really want to support sites like this by whitelisting them, but whenever I do, I get auto-forwarded to sites telling me they detected a virus on my system. Ads are annoying, but security is the number one reason I use Adblock. If the ad networks ever decide to give a shit about security, I'll reconsider. I…

I miss the halcyon days of clicking on individual instances of plugin content to run them.

Hmm, fake blood seems like it would be shipped as a concentrate to be diluted on site. Maybe that's why I'm not a special-effects guy. Anyway, thanks for the answer.

Please indulge me…I can understand being at an airport while working for FedEx, but where did the stage blood enter the picture?

And yet, from the other comments here, there are a lot of folks out there who want animal-free meat simulacra. I guess we're the weird ones, what with our superior taste.

Today's Best Deals: an OBDII reader and, I don't know, some USB cables

I'm an omnivore, and I've had (and enjoyed) veggie burgers. I freaking love a good black-bean burger. I prefer my vegetarian meals to taste like what they're made of without pretense of being something else. Apparently there's a market for meat-flavored meat substitutes, but as a meat fan I can't fathom why.

That's the point. I like The Rock, but the worst thing about it is its general Michael Bay-ness, the fact that it doesn't trust the audience to stay interested during the slow-burn thriller stuff in the first couple acts. It came out pretty good in spite of its director's worst instincts, and I'd love to see what a…

Wait, are we talking about the Arnold line his new boss went on to ruin?