Cancel the cry for help — at some point the login instructions were updated to specify that Kinja adds the suffix "—disqus" to the end of unavailable user names. Sure enough, "devf—disqus" turned out to be my login name. Whew, I'm in, and it only took a whole day!

So, Hail Mary question for anyone who's still hanging out on this side of the looking glass: For people who successfully ported over their Disqus accounts but had to choose new user names, what were the automatic modifications Kinja suggested to your old user name to create the new one?

So, Hail Mary question for anyone who's still hanging out on this side of the looking glass: For people who successfully ported over their Disqus accounts but had to choose new user names, what were the automatic modifications Kinja suggested to your old user name to create the new one?

Update: I redid the whole "claim account" thing and this time I got the screen where you select your user names and confirm the terms of service, and I was able to finish setting up an account.

Update: I redid the whole "claim account" thing and this time I got the screen where you select your user names and confirm the terms of service, and I was able to finish setting up an account.

I'm having exactly the same problem. I saw my user name and avatar, typed a test reply, selected "burner account" and wrote down the stupid twenty-letter code, but when I try to log in with it nothing happens.

I'm having exactly the same problem. I saw my user name and avatar, typed a test reply, selected "burner account" and wrote down the stupid twenty-letter code, but when I try to log in with it nothing happens.

Her architecture background was mentioned a lot when the Joss made Much Ado About Nothing, since she designed their home, where the movie was shot. It's been mentioned in other news reports and Whedon biographies over the years as well; it's definitely her real profession and not some sort of pipe dream or put-on.

Do we really have to ascribe some attention-getting ulterior motive to explain why some people are unhappy that a show they enjoyed is getting worse? I can think of no expectation more fundamentally fair than to hold a show to the same level of quality it was able to reach in the past.

Sure, if you're watching the show just for the spectacle of it or to cheer your favorite characters like they're your friends, it's no big deal if it makes less and less sense. But there are plenty of us who were watching it because it was more than just eye candy and character porn, and it's silly to accuse us of…

It certainly could mean that (and certainly has in other cheating a-hole situations), but I also don't have a hard time imagining a self-possessed young woman in the entertainment business making a conscious choice to throw herself at a powerful man for fun and/or self enrichment.

If all Whedon did was write strong female characters, he wouldn't have inspired this kind of backlash. The backlash started, long before these latest allegations broke, because he let all the praise for his enlightened feminism go to his head, climbing up on a pedestal so high he was almost certain to fall off it.…

I read Joss's explanation, at least, to be more like, "These hot ladies were throwing themselves at me; what was I to do?" Which doesn't mean he didn't take advantage, but I wouldn't assume he did.

Though Joss has also acknowledged that the network, in its squeamishness about the sex slavery themes, forced him to water them down in a way that actually made them offensive. (Because it turns out that if you try to make sex slavery look like it's not so much of a downer, you end up looking like an apologist for sex…

He supposedly thinks he "changed the narrative," offering himself up as a distraction from Trump's troubles. Which isn't true and is an insane reason to stomp on your own administration's foreign policy and nuclear deterrence strategy, but it's the kind of 3-D checkers a guy like Bannon would imagine himself very…

Yeah, fair enough.

You, you gay Irish fireman . . . you're okay. But you I do not like!

But the story broke in 2012, and G&O's show didn't even come out till two years later.

Yep, yep. Though I know that some trans activists find even that distinction problematic, seeing it as an artifact of an outdated clinical notion that there's only one "real" way to be transgender (i.e., by being stereotypically feminine).

There were absurdities all along, but I definitely feel like they got worse as the series progressed. They started out as melodramatic embellishments along the edges of a largely coherent story , and only later began to infect the characters at their cores.