It's a shame that you can't (so far as I'm aware) turn on the Polish language tracks in the console versions as you can with, for example, the Assassin's Creed games.

Yes, as much as I'm loving Witcher 3 I really miss having a persistent gang of party members to pall around with and a somewhat customizable home-base. I had a blast with DA:I and I'm having a blast with W3. It's a nice time to be an RPG fan.

*Manically sprays silver spray-paint over own face, screen*

I adore Venture Bros but feel the show didn't really hit its stride until midway through the first season. I recall thinking the pilot is particularly bad and unrepresentative of the show as a whole. If you feel inclined to give it a second chance you might consider randomly looking at one of the season two eps and…

*tents fingers evilly* Yesssss. "Reasonable."

You make a totally fair and reasonable point about them being different fields, of course. Still, given that we've been told that Caitlin holds multiple completed PhDs and on top of that spends 14 hour days working in a particle accelerator where her husband was an engineer, her boss is one of the top people in that…

I only played the first one, and not recently at that, but your description of it as self-serious to the point of silliness rings very true to me. This is an odd comparison, I recognize, but on a meta level it reminds me a little of "Hero," the martial arts movie that Zhang Yimou came out with a while back. "Crouching…

A friend of mine is a Victorianist who frequents a listserv populated by scholars working in that field. Evidently there was a lively discussion concerning the announcement of this game and one of participants eventually revealed herself as the historical consultant that Ubisoft worked with on it.

To be honest, I was a tad surprised that the show hasn't posited that Eobard somehow absorbed faint echoes of the actual Wells's personality when he used his crazy face-stealing machine. On the other hand, the idea that Thawne, despite being a pretty bad guy, would still have some level paternal fondness for Barry and…

I believe the preferred unit of measure is "thing" of candy beans.

No, but from time to time Guanyin shows up to save the monk from pets of hers that have gone rogue.

"Po-ta-to."

It's truly hard to say. I do think that the literature of the very late Ming / Ming-Qing transition (Jin Ping Mei, the works of Feng Menglong, Li Yu, etc) feels to me like it has as lot more in common with the material that followed it in the Qing than with the stuff that was being written in, say, the early Ming. But…

I agree completely. China's a great setting that definitely deserves to be explored further.

As I said, it's an honest mistake. I was just being a grouchy pedant. :-)

It's certainly possible, although it still strikes me as unlikely. Who knows? I'd actually really like to know what the results of the poll would be now. Get on it, social scientists!

Yes, yes, and yes. Even if we grant that the onset of the modern era is a fuzzy line at best, the late Ming surely doesn't qualify. I can't recall the exact year the game is set but the later half of the 16th century would make Shao Jun a rough contemporary of William Shakespeare and nobody would ever consider him an…

On a recent episode of the Idle Thumbs podcast the hosts brilliantly observe that "Venn Diagram" is actually an almost prototypical Star Wars name.

The director's cut has a scene of her crawling back to the restaurant like a bird on its belly.

"You could fake your own death! All you need is a car bomb!"