There's only so much trust you should put in something owned entirely by the royal family of Qatar, the country that is currently working foreigners to death so they can have a World Cup.

It is funny how you remember things in better resolution…. I know my memories of System Shock 2 were a lot better than it looked seeing my girlfriend play it for the first time last year. Certainly Diablo II looked a lot better in my mind than it did only a few years later.

There is nothing wrong about wanting to make sure all your settlers have power :)

I could definitely get that… I'm actually the opposite, I was very invested in the biologist, but I wasn't super concerned about the overall mystery. Maybe Lost burned me too much on that for me to trust that there is a really good resolution that doesn't involve magic? But I loved how that book managed to be very…

Zen of Fish, which is about the origin of sushi, with a particular focus of how it came into America and how American sushi traditions differ from the Japanese, which is interesting, though I find the writing style (particularly around science-y) topics a little too simple.

I tried reading The Color of Magic too, and eventually got tired of it…. it kept introducing fantastic interesting settings with some cool plots, and then abandoning them for another one. When they got to Imagine Dragons country, I realized that's just what the book's point was, but I was starting to get a exhausted…

Have you seen a velvet worm? That's what I imagined.

The film is one of the few where I really see the point of the shippers… much of the actions of Thorin and Bilbo only make sense if they have some unspoken feelings towards each other.

I've only read Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, but both of those were books with really interesting characters, but not super heavy on the plot.

I read it on a plain, and while I didn't initially like the style, it really grew on me, like a horrible glowing mold. Being in the biosciences myself, and having spent hours watching ants as a kid, I really liked the mindset of the narrator. She was 'flawed scientist' in a very different way than most novel…

"Its all about the war on terror!"

RIPD would seem to indicate that, its at least his base mode of acting.

So, "Your Popular Movie Sucks", the awards show?

Prometheus. It may have been an Intelligent Design theory disguised as a movie, but for some reason that only accentuated my enjoyment of the cast dying.

In all seriousness, I work with a bunch of Russians, and most of them are stone cold sober cause of the shit they've seen. A lot had a run in with Methanol and were like "maybe that's enough of that"

Some time they'll make a somber, beautifully shot movie of Adam Sandlar doing nothing but being a sad, bored, super rich guy trying to care about making a movie.

Ha, you only know part of Russian bootlegging technique. True Russian can get drunk off of distilled alcohol made from a chair. Because sometimes you need to get drunk more than need for home furnishings.

If only they'd taken some Mentats.

It is Russian drug, which, you know, rots your face off. But you imperialist Americans wouldn't understand the appeal.

I remember when JD on Scrubs dumped her, and she basically yelled at him "I am as cute as a BUTTON!"