They must've figured out how to delay aging in the Disney Genetic Engineering labs.

The problem with that comparison being that this game isn't dealing with the atrocities in Africa and India and elsewhere, but a war between two largely English-speaking, European and 'civilized' groups. That's not to say that warfare between European states during this time period was a genteel and harmless thing,…

Did you seriously just compare the British to Nazi Germany? Really?

You're quite welcome! :) Though this is a couple of centuries off (ie in Shakespeare's time), this Open University Youtube clip on the original pronunciation of Shakespeare's works might give you a taste of what it could have sounded like. (Hopefully the Youtube link works)

"I will be honost with you, but getting tard and feathered and running away to Canada does not sound like a fun game. "

AFAIK, the accents during this time period were a bit strange. The modern 'British' family of accents as we know them developed after the divergence between America and Britain; the American family of accents retained a lot of 'archaic' pronunciations, while British English developed on its own, separate path. I'm not…

It may interest you to know that there were significant numbers of American colonists who actually sided with the British leading up to and during the War for Independence; they were known as the United Empire Loyalists, or more commonly as just Loyalists. Most of the estimated 70 000 Loyalists fled to what is now…

Blargh. Not entirely sure why that didn't work, but here it is again, just in case;

I've always been partial to a lot of Bear McCreary's work, myself, particularly in the remake of Battlestar Galactica;

Tyrion was only ever given the title of Hand of the King because Tywin couldn't be there to take the position himself, as he was off fighting Robb and the Stark forces. Now that Tywin is back, Tyrion lost all of the authority he had, simply because he wasn't needed any longer. That and Cersei made absolutely sure…

For what it's worth, the serious, planet-wide effects of climate change are unlikely to start occurring even within the next decade or so; despite all of the CO2 we're pumping into the atmosphere and acidifying the oceans and deforesting the world, the Earth is still a bloody massive system that's fairly slow to…

'Vaginabombing'? Does that refer to a while back when people filled their senators/congressperson/whatever's Facebook page with updates on their vaginas? The difference comes in that the congresspeople/whatever put up their Facebook pages specifically to get feedback/drum up good PR/be accountable to their voters, and…

I would imagine it's more that the national media is picking up on these cases moreso than normal what with the Copeland case. It reminds me of an incident a couple of years ago when a large bird die-off was reported somewhere in the Midwest; it got picked up on the national news, and all of a sudden national outlets…

You humans are all RACIST!

Wonderfully, we're well on our way in regards to phylogenetic trees. This website here has a wonderful, scrollable diagram of all of the organisms that we've sequenced the genomes of, and is thus really accurate;

Well, the aquatic ape theory in general is pretty bad, to be honest. To quote Wiki;

Of course, that whole 'love the sinner, hate the sin' dealio tends to break down as soon as it's applied outside Christian apologist platitudes. As you say, humans are imperfect, and the likelihood of hormonal, angsty teenagers, let alone grown adults, being able to successfully naviage that bit of moral contortionism…

You don't have to watch it if you don't want to, you know. It's not as though HBO is the only channel on television; I'm sure ABC or the Family Channel or whatever has a nice, wholesome and non-offensive family comedy for you to watch instead. That way you can have your virtuous TV all to yourself and let the rest of…

I can't remember where I read this, but Martin has apparently given an outline of what will happen in the last two books to the directors/writers of the TV show, so that in the event of his untimely demise, they'll hopefully be able to give us closure via television. That is, if the series lasts that long. (which I…