I'm running a Shadowrun game for some people who've never played it before. They're learning the hard way that old maxim "Shadowrun is three real-time hours of planning a run that goes south in the first ten seconds".

Just to let nerds and wannabe nerds know: this Saturday is Free RPG Day, where game stores around the world will be giving away free RPG quickstarts and running demos: http://freerpgday.com/

Please tell me this is leading in to AV Club having a regular RPG column. 'Cause boy howdy do I have some recommendations for games to talk about.

Yes.

I don't know which is worse; the fact that these people will never admit they were wrong, or that it's a safe bet that the majority of the people doing this boycott were publicly critical of Obama.

I don't know about the "vaguely racist" part (it's been decades since I saw it), but I'm guess the "inexplicable" part is "why do the Harlem Globetrotters have a cartoon?"

"To be honest, your honor, I'm only defending him because this courtroom is a pokéstop."

"The defense rests. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a job interview at the pretzel place in the mall in half an hour."

"Listen, I'm only defending him because I drew the short straw, cut me some slack here."

Cosby attorney: Sorry, mind was wandering. Monday, you know? Anyway, what were we talking about again?

Don't forget the old chestnut, "look at how she was dressed!"

The only one I know about was a PR guy for that old OUYA game console that crashed, burned, and crashed again took a screenshot of his browser with a RedTube tab open while trying to promote games.

I legit love the fact that Gyro still has his little light bulb robot helper.

Oh, right, I forgot all about the whole posthumous-book thing.

You know, it just occurred to me that while I did read the Hitchhiker's series back in the 80's, I think haven't touched or revisited anything Adams wrote since I started reading Terry Pratchett.

She was just so proud of herself each time. How could you not love that?

I'm pretty sure that'd kill all of us.

Two things:

Going to see it in the theaters as a kid when it first came out. We were a little late, and we came in just after the opening crawl, so the first thing I saw was the giant Star Destroyer zooming past the screen and I knew in my heart that this was AWESOME.

The "threat" is that they can't make fun of it, or insult the people there and get away with it, or that they'd have to face consequences for their words and/or actions.