Let's hope so! I hadn't heard about it until this morning either, but as Mike hadn't brought it up in his OP I thought it wouldn't hurt to alert the readership, as it were. Happy stuff'n'seasons to you and yours, and to all who eyeball this bit o'digital ink!

You do understand that they were actually hacked (see http://www.dailydot.com/politics/anony… for a list of affected sites)? Or the Lizard Squad made up 13,000 account details and posted the document online (doubtful)?

This is such an "other comic book guy" response, but http://marvel.wikia.com/Pietro_Maximof… begs to differ about Pietro's speed.

You...um...meant P4 characters only, hence no Mitsuru, right? Seeing as how Mitsuru is a P3 chara?

Nope. It was a Thing that Let the Filmmakers Have a Hand to Hand Combat Scene for the Denouement; nothing more, to me at least. And after the fact, it was a "safe" accessory for Ripley that wouldn't have half of the sensitives in the nation screaming for retribution, which they would have likely done if they'd…

I never went out number-gathering, so I had no idea.

Well said. The whole idea of Clara being freaked out by the new Doctor bugged the hell out of me as well, for the reasons you note. I wouldn't characterize it as the show using a character to talk down to people who might dislike Capaldi, though, as that completely ignores the "not a boyfriend" theme, which seems…

College degrees aren't required more and more. I've seen a huge number of undegreed professionals being hired more and more frequently, as it happens.

Yes, it really is that simple.

While true that the PS4, at least (not an XBoner, can't speak to it and don't feel like looking it up as it isn't relevant to my point), can download while on standby, do you have a source for your assertion that most downloads occur this way?

Nah.

Why is a scene delivering one of the main episode themes - that Capaldi's Doctor won't be the boyfriend - worse than sorta-slapstick with Strax? Is is that the scene later where Capaldi explicitly kills the boyfriend angle, noting that he had been the one responsible for it, sufficient for you, then, and did not, in…