Oooh! Also, Buffy. This might be my age showing, but I was a pre-teen when the original Buffy movie came out with Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry. So, when I was a bit older and the series debuted, I was crapping my pants with excitement over the idea of more of that stuff. Watched the first few episodes when they…

I was absolutely stunned when I started watching the first few episodes of this, expecting it to be lame. I got addicted pretty quickly! I don't think the second season was nearly as strong, but it was still enjoyable.

I'm going to say that I was REALLY shocked at how much I enjoy The Vampire Diaries. I loathe Twilight with the fire of a thousand suns, and expected this would just be more of the same. Was I ever happy to be wrong!

I was actually coming here to post the same thing! I avoided Buffy for YEARS because I thought it looked cheesy and hokey (I was a teenager when it came out). After hearing people gush about it for the past fifteen years or so, I finally decided to catch up on Netflix.

I'm obsessed. Went out and bought a matching…

I see the point, though. The vast majority of characters that have been shown so far are males. It's reasonable to assume that there will be at least one playable female character- but that's still a bit off for the Final Fantasy Series. Most of the time it's pretty close to 50/50.

I agree with you. I loved the character designs, for the most part, up until FFX. FFXI on, and I'm just, like... meh. Except Snow. I liked Snow.

That's what I thought, too.

That's not how Autism works.

I think you summarized it perfectly. In British Columbia, where I'm from, calling someone an Indian is generally considered a pretty racist term. Most of the First Nations people I know will refer to themselves as being "native", though at the same time it's not a term that's usually considered appropriate for…

YES! 100%, this was our biggest complaint about our wedding. We invited about 150 and 110 RSVP'd, so that's the number we gave to our caterer. About 75 people showed up. That is a LOT of additional/unnecessary decor (centerpieces for the extra three or four tables that we had set up and ready), food, beverages…

No. Just no. The "rule" is you give what you can afford, if anything. Also, traveling to a wedding isn't cheap (if guests live out of town). It's unrealistic- and incredibly tacky- to attach a dollar amount to what a guest "should" give to a bride and groom. The fact is, not everyone has tonnes of cash to spare…

Wait, a hundred bucks is considered a small amount? In what world?

I got married at the beginning of April and the average amount we received per person/couple was about forty or fifty bucks. We received a hundred bucks from a few people and maybe one or two of our better-off, older relatives gave more than that. …

Result: Yogurt tastes like a million dollars.

Peh. What sort of hoity-toity people use SPOONS to eat yogurt? I pour it into my mouth, then crush the container and roll it like a tube of toothpaste to get the last bit of yummy goodness. Because taking the extra couple seconds to pack a spoon along with my lunch requires too much brain power, I guess. I forget…

Yes, sometimes you just have to shake your head at her and remember that she's got a flair for the over-dramatic (which is mostly what I think this was). I think she sort of, almost, had a good point or two... and then she just took it several steps too far. The comparison to lynching is a good example of extreme…

...But Howie's okay, right? Just as long as Howie's okay.

In all fairness, Charlaine Harris sort of shit all over Alcide's character long before True Blood got around to it.

I love Anne Rice. I really do. I've loved her since I was thirteen and first discovered her world of wonderful, sensual, bisexual vampires. She's had her moments of weirdness over the past few decades, but recently caught my attention again when she publicly distanced herself from the Catholic church because she…

Do you believe that pornographic actors and actresses are rapists and or the victim of sexual assault because they are paid for what they do? Obviously, because they collect a paycheque, it means they don't ACTUALLY want to have sex with one another. What does that make the people who view pornography?

No,…

Yes. Freaking yes. Thank you. This is one of my biggest pet peeves when talking about prostitution- the fact that society infantalizes people who work in the sex industry and assumes that they must all be victims in some way. Clearly, there are real serious issues on this planet with regards to sex trafficking. …