He was almost 100 when he died. He gets a pass on the hard-copy obsession. What I don't get is how people our age can justify their physical-object fetishism as anything more than wasteful, conspicuous consumption. It's like a VHS, or vinyl, or laserdisc collection. You're not enjoying the thing you claim to be…

How brave!

Dandelion Wine is by far my favorite Bradbury book. I didn't think I could ever enjoy a non-genre book until the middle-school summer I read this and To Kill A Mockingbird and realized it was possible to enjoy a book without robots or magic — that writing transcends genre, and therefore — for a good writer — genre is…

Hear, hear on #2. Rob Bricken is a genius and io9 is very, very lucky to have such a talented writer on board.

Some of the worst writing ever visited on the usually excellent Vampire Diaries. Charlie Jane, I'd expect you to at least acknowledge the formal mistakes made here, since that's half of what you write about for io9. Not a scene went by without some page-long expositional and unrealistic speech on matters already…

1) ABC's Scandal is the 2013 mainstream TV equivalent to The Invisibles. If you don't see it, look again. That's how this works. Speaking of:

EXACTLY my first thought. They're like Gen Y Grendel and his Gen X mother, those two.

That was hilarious, thank you for that.

Well I, for one, am shocked that the same people who can't see the obvious homophobic insult — and didn't understand the original post in the first place — are the same exact ones that throw these verbose shit-fits whenever this subject comes up.

I wish I could read minds like that. To me, it seemed intended to provide more website traffic for this website.

I know, it's so creepy how he linked to both positive and critical articles from the gaming community.

What scandal? These are two different pieces worth reading, according to this site, if you want to read other articles about the game. What is scandalous about that? Does just the presence of the word "criticism" set you fanboys off now?

There's been plenty of coverage, both negative and positive. What are you talking about?

I was just playing devil's advocate...

I'm gay, I'll use whatever words I like. What's your point?

No one is this stupid. Stop being disingenuous, it just makes you look silly.

A "snappy comment"? It was a fag joke. Once again proving the author's point.

I didn't mean to be rude, it just seemed strange that you'd take the time to comment on it, but not to think about it at all.

Nolan hasn't been Lawkeeper for three weeks, Amanda's been Mayor for three weeks. The battle with the Volge was 24 hours before the start of the episode, which lasts 24 hours and ends with the group funeral. So Ben's coma is since yesterday, as is Nolan's Sheriffhood.

You're seriously going to strain something, stretching that hard.