I could watch this for hours. 

Very much agree. I’m probably not their core market as a casual gamer with a bad internet connection (I’ve spent about an hour total in the Crucible, through D1 and D2, because I’m dead before the enemy loads half the time) but I was buying every DLC. But that hour or so winding through a story mode or running…

I once took a very short DC to Albany flight with three people on it and I wished it could have lasted for days. The space, the attention, the space...my buddies were upset they didn’t get some free 1st class and/or drinks from it, but I just wished every flight could be vacant like that. 

I live in one of those parts of the rust belt clinging to the dregs of manufacturing and, yes, we regularly hear from the local factories that they can’t get qualified workers.

My inlaws made this comment yesterday too. I should have figured, as usual, that they were just quoting whatever racist they’d seen on tv.

They generally aren’t admissible in court, though. 

I’m always a bit torn on this, for DAs and judges, because at least in an election, the political process gives a choice and, in theory, weeds out the least competent. If it’s appointment, even if screened by some body, you’re likely getting the politically connected with no choice and no guarantee of competence. 

If anyone was following the Garret Phillips murder/Nick Hillary trial or saw the documentaries, the reliability and acceptance standards for evidence came into play. The prosecution wanted to offer DNA evidence tested by a relatively recent process and the trial may have been decided by the defense win on precluding…

They never made a Highlander 2. I never heard of such a movie. And you can’t tell me otherwise. 

DC, I am available. I have minimal writing credits and no comic experience, but how well has that sort of credential really helped run the company? 

Great, now I have to go home sick just to catch up on some of these I haven’t seen in a while. 

This always bugs me as a fan of Trek and sci fi generally. As long as there have been humans, there have been people addicted to something. Trek has never shown us that they’ve fixed the physiological and psychological enough to eliminate addiction. So, sure, synthehol may exist in Trek but that doesn’t mean people…

The thing that boggles my mind whenever there’s outrage like this: NBC made a business decision that keeping was more problematic than firing. But the same people that foam at the mouth about less government regulation and more business-being-business will yell at NBC for this. 

My student loan debt from undergrad was about $15,000 from the early 1990s. If I’d stopped there, I’d have paid it off before my 40s and I’d probably have a very different view on student loan issues. I expect most of my classmates and our cohort mad about free/subsidized college will feel very different in another…

I watched “A Good Man Goes to War” this weekend because I needed a good cry. Worked. 

I really appreciate this take. I was a fan from Day One (well, probably the 1978 re-release, but still...) and spent a lot of time with the movie novelizations and then the EU novels. I had definite ideas about who Luke and Leia as adult would be and I was surprised to find I liked the versions I was given in the ST.…

I’d say about 110 to 150% of the complaint is people who were already complaining about Whittaker. The sort that would say “it’s not that they cast a woman, it’s just her...” to every single woman cast in the role. 

I like your way of stating that. I felt that, no, the Doctor didn’t behave as A Hero should, in part because this is a ten episode (or however many) arc about her own flaws and inability to cope.

I wish I was assertive enough to stand up. But no, I’m not. And no, my spouse doesn’t support my desire to limit contact or establish any sort of boundaries. Any description of my actual mental state would need trigger warnings and be behind a cut that I don’t know how to put in place on kinja. It’s bad, kids. 

Somehow I am still very disturbed by 1970 being 50 years ago.