Umm, yes. I’m pretty sure nobody was advocating that refusing to accept this award should be illegal. He has every right to do it. Other people have every right to think and say he’s a misguided ass for doing so.

So *that’s* who Aunt Baru was calling! It makes sense now!

Also, when you do family style you let everyone order one thing or so so everyone can share. I mean, sure, if you’re at someone’s favorite restaurant and they say “let me order because I know all the awesome stuff”, sure I could put myself in that persons hands, but generally “family style” doesn’t mean “food ordering…

Of gaming with strangers (who could of course become friends) isn’t an issue, you may want to poke around at any local game stores or check out meetup.com.

Annoyingly, there are exactly 2 games on this list I’d be interested in owning (Santorini and Sherriff of Nottingham). I already own Castles of Burgundy and Codenames (which I’d happily recommend to others)

Annoyingly, there are exactly 2 games on this list I’d be interested in owning (Santorini and Sherriff of…

Mutant or possibly a half-elf, depending on where you are in continuity. :P

If they are making a “calculation” at all, then, yeah, screw them. Given that you have no idea why they are standing and what it means to them, maybe stop projecting thoughts into their heads.

You sure have a lot of insight as to exactly why the people who aren’t kneeling aren’t kneeling. Have you been talking to them personally?

Eh, Alex could be a jerk, but in a pretty standard 14-year-old boy kind of way.

If people like something you don’t like, coming up with a theory other than “different people like different things” to explain it is rarely (read: never) correct. Different people like different things. Agree that Hot Fuzz is more scattered tonally, but that’s part of what I (personally) like about it. I may like…

Yeah, Lost Boys is a much better movie than the Wraith, plot structure notwithstanding. Lost boys has a fairly consistent set of rules (as explained by the Frog Brothers) about how vampires work (antler kill notwithstanding - maybe it was *carved* antlers?), whereas The Wraith has no rules that makes any sense at all.…

Find one clip of anyone doing anything like this. I am not a massive volleyball expert, but I did spend 5 years in college marching band attending nearly every Cal men’s and women’s volleyball game and I never saw someone dive/layout in one direction and manage to hit the ball 50 feet in the other.

En masse? I...don’t know how to do that. I’m horrified by this. I promise every single person I know (white, black, whatever) would be horrified by this. The idea that some white person living in the SF Bay Area (me) has some kind of way to move the hearts and minds of the kinds of people who would allow and/or…

Well, I think Miles Teller is just horribly out of place as an action movie star - he just doesn’t have the right kind of swaggery screen presence.

Yeah, but not really at the same level. I mean, the X-men movies aren’t exactly high art, but they are goddam Citizen Kane next to some of the dross Butler’s been in.

Yeah, that’s what’s weird about him - it’s not like he’s Van Damme or something and can’t act - he’s at least a serviceable actor, it’s just that he seems to take on projects as some kind of dare.

There have been a number of studies showing that people collaborate better with a (well behaved) dog in the room, chilling out, so at the very least if a dog is well behaved it probably doesn’t *hurt* to have it in the office. I’ve had only positive experiences with office dogs (and by and large I am not really a fan…

Why am I only learning about this now, in my 44th year, when I have a 5 year old with a goddam peanut allergy.

Oh my god, they really *are* just like us.

Man, now I want to hear the Anvil Chorus on defibrillators...