Here's one: if you don't understand what's being said (as in, you couldn't hear, or their weird accent and their muttered dialog is impeding your actual ability to take in the words), WAIT UNTIL THE CHARACTER IS DONE TALKING before asking what was just said. It's not possible for me to hear something, repeat it back,…

The worst part is that he had to walk alone.

It takes place so long before ASOIAF that it's really hard to call it a prequel...although, in theory, there could be a little bit of overlap with the way that ASOIAF tells stories backwards and forwards at the same time. I suppose it's not out of the question that you could (or have) run into some overlap, is the…

It's hard to say without knowing the site; maybe it was a site that, for some reason, happened to appeal more to Canadian and Australian sensibilities than American and British? Or even one that just had greater penetration (no pun intended) in those countries than in the other ones.

They wouldn't cover the specialized treatment that Skyler wanted him to get, but that was way after he'd already started cooking meth. Regular treatments presumably would've been covered. Walt wanted money for his family after he was gone, because apparently Walt never got life insurance for some reason or something.

To be honest, actually, we're both wrong; he decides to cook meth before Skyler even knows about the cancer. It's not to pay for treatments at all, at least not immediately. While I would think he had some kind of life insurance policy to pay for his family's expenses after he was gone (he strikes me as that kind of a…

The first season I absolutely love. My theory with this show is that it lost it's way after Nancy Marchand passed away; she was such a fantastic foil for Tony that, when she died, the show didn't have a good back-up, and they tried to make his sister fill that role but it didn't work.

Yeah, I kind of agree. I'm forcing myself to get through it, but in the back of my mind I can't quite figure out why his insurance didn't cover his cancer treatments. That's a pretty standard thing that insurances handle, so that you don't have to resort to cooking meth to pay for your treatments.

My wife and I got into a conversation about Lost last night, actually. The thing I come back is that, when the show was at it's absolute peak, it was one of the most fun I've had with a show. That's about middle of season two until, I don't know, sometime in season four. I understand it lost it's way (I think probably…

What I really need is an app that does all of this, but then also lets me export the list to Wunderlist, since that's where I compile my weekly grocery list. Apps like this that build lists are great, but if the list stays in the app I have two competing grocery lists going: lists for food for meals, and lists for…

If you just added a few Lego steaks and maybe a bottle of bourbon, you'd be able to get the effect.

You definitely need to stick with it, although I understand why it's hard; for me, Season 1 was REALLY dense and disjointed, and Season 2 was only a little bit better. In Season 3, though, things really start to get fun...and they do a good job of making some of the problems I had with the show (which, mainly, was…

I can't help but thinking that there's probably a middle ground between "$550 rice cooker" and "$30 rice cooker".

My wife also lost interest, also due to the pacing. She's not necessarily it's target audience, but she tends to go along with genre stuff if it's not incredibly insane...but she just got bored with it midway through.

It's pretty funny how many comments are against pen/paper notetaking when you look at how that vote's turning out.

From the TV replay, this tackle looked like a clean hit. A HARD clean hit, but clean; it's actually pretty much as Gipson says, he lowers his shoulder and goes for the runner. Watching it live looked like spearing, but that's mostly just because of how fast the whole thing was; on replay, there appeared to be minimal…

From the TV replay, this tackle looked like a clean hit. A HARD clean hit, but clean; it's actually pretty much as Gipson says, he lowers his shoulder and goes for the runner. Watching it live looked like spearing, but that's mostly just because of how fast the whole thing was; on replay, there appeared to be minimal…

From the TV replay, this tackle looked like a clean hit. A HARD clean hit, but clean; it's actually pretty much as Gipson says, he lowers his shoulder and goes for the runner. Watching it live looked like spearing, but that's mostly just because of how fast the whole thing was; on replay, there appeared to be minimal…

Yeah, I wasn't into it then, but I've heard those old ones were sluggish...the new one's pretty good, though, and the match engine actually looks decent as well. I had a two-three year stint where the only game I played for any length of time was FM (FM'09-12); I'm on a year-long hiatus and have mostly skipped 13…

There's a similar thrill in "Football Manager", where you take charge of every aspect of a professional soccer team, set up the training, figure out the tactics and the formations and the set piece instructions, and then...watch them play the game. Something about setting up your side well and watching as it comes…