It’s really discouraging to me to see all the backlash about Taylor Swift. So many people saying that she’s too white, too rich, not feminist enough, etc, to be a part of this. But you don’t have to be a perfect victim to deserve justice. You don’t have to be selfless to stand up for yourself.

Complain about Millennials all you want, just please get the timeline right! It drives me crazy to read articles that start out by defining Millennial as “born 1980-1995" or whatever, and then the article goes on and on about smartphones and social media and twitter. Most people in that age group were adults when all…

They can’t go the “quick scene that can be edited out” route either - can you imagine the PR stink the minute the US press found out? It’s one thing to make innocuous edits for the Chinese market (add a small scene set in China, edit out nudity or violence, etc) but it would definitely make headlines if they censored…

That was so gross.

Yeah I noticed that too - whoever’s in that suit moves like the Hulk. That doesn’t mean it can’t be Banner, but there’s no way it’s Tony Stark. 

I ended up settling on something in between - Arya is fooled by the letter she finds, and the confrontation with Sansa is geniune. (Arya isn’t exactly the understanding and forgiving sort, I can see how she’d be unreasonably mad about the letter). However, what Sansa says gets through to her, and after the…

As much as I LOVE the Great British Bake-Off, there’s something that feels wrong about recommending such a British show for such an American holiday.

It’s a fun scene, but it’s basically the same joke as the finished scene, just beaten into the ground. 

I’m genuinely confused how this is supposed to work. People can give “Kudos” instead of a tip, and it’s like a cryptocurrency in that it doesn’t really correspond to anything in the real world but still (hopefully) has value? Even though the employee can’t actually use it for anything? Or is it better to think of it…

People find the Scouring of the Shire sad? I always liked it for the pure wish fulfillment - we get to see how much cooler our heroes have become, as they return home and face a foe that’s laughably minor to them now.

It’s the hair - cuts without any volume (like a buzz cut) will make your head look smaller, which makes your body look larger in comparison. It’s one of the reasons that pixie cuts are popular with women who have a lanky, willowy body type.

The Royal Assassin series is the obvious way to go if you’re looking for the “next GOT” - I’m disappointed no one has jumped on it yet.

Yeah to me this really looks like the designer decided for practical reasons that it looked nicer sans hair (and it does), and didn’t stop to consider the political implications. Lupita’s right to be mad about it but the assumption that it was an intentional “censoring” is a bit much. If they really found it…

“One feminist sound bite that has emerged loud and clear over the past few years is that genre stories need more “strong female characters.””

I got the impression that Strange saw Thor as a potential threat, and was trying to keep him confused and disoriented until he could figure out what his game was.

Interestingly, this may mean Star Wars is our big hope for getting gay characters into a big-budget film. TFA and Rogue One both made about half their money domestically, and were a flop in China. So Disney may decide that they can afford to take a hit with the international market in exchange for a potential PR boost…

“They imagine that so long as they “believe in God”, they don’t have to do the hard work of being good people. Their faith alone will save them!”

I subscribe to the philosophy that if you have an old phone, and it’s working pretty well, you should stop upgrading the OS. You’re much more likely to end up ruining your phone than improving it.

I got curious and looked up the plot summary for that one - all the plot revolves around three dudes, and the main character’s only role is that she sleeps with all three of them...

I played Morrowind a bit like all the folks above who followed the traffic laws in GTA. I didn’t want to learn spells or fight things, I just wanted to wander around and explore. My favorite memory of the game is the time I spent two hours walking all the way from the bottom left corner of the map to the top right…