I’m still skeptical this can be adapted well (its qualities as a book were somewhat specific to the medium, in my opinion), but this might be good. Moffat does his best work with limited series, rather than ongoing ones, so he might not mess this one up.

So this is definitely getting an Ig-nobel, right? Pretty sure this is precisely the reason they exist.

So this is what they’re doing instead of making the Skies of Arcadia sequel or remaster I’ve been desperately waiting on for almost two decades. Got it.

Somewhere, I still have my novelization of Jurassic Park from when I was a kid.

Some things, yes - I’m actually playing Zero Dawn now - but not all. Spider-man still eludes my grasp.

For good games, I’ll gladly settle for that.

Please tell me this is somehow a precursor to a bunch of the PS exclusives (Spider-man, Horizon 2, etc.) getting PC releases.

Yes, miller came out as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. The AV Club is just following that (as they should). I’m not sure what you’re getting at with the Linklater thing, since as far as I’m aware he uses he/him pronouns (or at least hasn’t made any public statements to the contrary).

Do we have any sense of whether they’ll be part of the regular cast, or just making guest appearances?

On behalf of disabled people, fuck him. To quote Dominick Evans on a recent webinar, “Disability is not something you can act - full stop.” If he’s going to put on being disabled like a costume for the cameras, that bad enough, but this type of behavior is just complete horseshit, and extraordinarily insulting to…

No idea. I saw her speak locally to promote Lafayette, and have been wondering about her next book ever since.

I’m in the DC area too - there are a bunch here. (Woodley Park, Tenleytown, Dupont, chinatown, etc.) I’ve found some dishes are better than others, but when they’re good, they’re quite good. My go-to these days is three boneless thighs (mango and lime sauce) with garlic bread - great dinner, and then leftovers for…

Nando’s is some good shit. I’m lucky enough to live in one of the two cities in the US that actually has them, and I get food from there all the time. 

Watching the early seasons of the current run of Doctor Who is a very different experience now.

Can we also talk about how toxic it is to link loving one’s family to violence? (Yes, defense is sometimes necessary, but there’s a reason that self-defense laws in this country only justify the minimum force reasonably necessary to stop the other person from using force - a physical attack to stop a verbal one is a…

Speaking as someone who works on disability civil rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion for a living, and who is multiply disabled himself, I do not find it offensive. It’s fine. There’s a reason the disability community was going after Bond films for constantly relying on the trope of having villains with…

I can’t imagine a prosecutor going ahead with charges for something like this, though, unless the victim actively wanted it. On more serious crimes, sure - no one is going to get away with bombing a building even if the owners don’t want it to happen - but for a relatively minor battery charge, pretty much any…

That said, it might not have been the worst thing if Page had a little less privacy in the 70s, and didn’t get away as easily with disturbing shit. (Google Lori Maddox.)

Plenty of those types of choices to criticize, like Forrest Gump beating out Pulp Fiction and Rocky topping a ridiculously stacked field (including All The President’s Men, Network, and Taxi Driver). I also think The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (which wasn’t even nominated) and There Will Be Blood were dramatically…

It’s not like it’s not in good company though. Giving the best picture oscar to How Green Was My Valley over fucking Citizen Kane (and The Maltese Falcon) sure didn’t age well, and throwing awards at Slumdog Millionaire instead of, well, almost anything that year (including, famously, The Dark Knight, which wasn’t…