I realize this is a pop culture website and all, but does anyone else think it's weird that according to the original Telegraph article people found guilty of viewing child pornography receive heavier sentences than the people found guilty of producing it? Is John Grisham's PR blunder really the most interesting…

I'm going to restrain myself from trying to articulate something someone else already has said. I can't vouch for everything this guy says since I first came across this video months ago, but rewatching the beginning of his discussion of FO3 vs. NV, I'll stick my neck out: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I'm making my way through Fallout: New Vegas for the first time. So far it is infinitely more compelling than I found Fallout 3, even though I think I put around 200 hours into that one. There's a dissertation to be written comparing these two games. Thank God I already learned my lesson about getting advanced…

I understood what the designers were going for most of the time when you would come across some scene whose story was communicated via the objects left around, but as a former archaeologist, I couldn't get past everything I know about deposition processes and variable preservation rates etc., so I ended up feeling…

I'll admit that I'm sticking my neck way out by putting so much faith in an incomplete story, but I'm not sure those flaws you mentioned are necessarily flaws. For example, I find Theon's story a pretty compelling exploration of what constitutes justice and a fairly accurate depiction of how someone copes with being…

[Potential spoiler warning since I'm a book reader] First, I am incredibly impressed with the comments in this thread, and by extension with the showrunners. You guys are discussing nuances of Cersei's character that I didn't really get a handle on until later in the series.

I could not disagree more with your take on Tyrion murdering Shae. There is a mountain of scientific evidence which
demonstrates that amongst ordinary people the weakest male is typically
physically stronger than the strongest female
(e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov… which actually supports the notion that for the…

Todd, I think you are beginning to miss the forest for the trees in your GoT reviews. Martin, and by extension the showrunners, don't seem to give a fuck that you (in your role as critic) have a hard time imagining where this story could go. How many times do they have to pull off incredible feats of storytelling…

I think that the more that science is able to penetrate and shed light on our species-wide mental blindspots, the more absurd these tongue-clucking articles start to look. For instance, we find it very difficult to shake the notion that other people in other places and at earlier times somehow know something we…