Bargainwatch: Episodic Because "Work" Rhymes With "Jerk" Edition - First things first, you've probably all heard this by now but GoG is crossing the line, knocking the chip off the shoulder, pushing the big red button, etc. and linking up with Steam accounts so you don't have to buy the same game twice on different…

(Can we use material from the books here? Because if not, please ignore this.)

Great interview. He reads like an articulate, educated person who nevertheless didn't spend his formative years obsessing about Star Wars, which makes his perspective an interesting one; I'll almost certainly buy this book and I expect I'll enjoy it.

I'd have loved to hear more of his thoughts about TFA. His defense of the prequels wasn't as full-throated as I expected, given his intro to the point, but TFA pretty clearly rejected several of their more prominent characteristics.

This was a great read, and also a more-than-slightly surreal one.

I liked other non-action parts of that movie, but I agree, Grammer was great for Beast.

I think if you mentally replace "North Korea" with "China", you'll have the story they actually wrote. The idea that they might want to sell the game in China someday made the name-change necessary.

I see Margaery and Tommen's joining the High Sparrow as setting the next Unexpected Consequences Bomb for when the Lannister/Tyrell joint plot against him succeeds. I mean, he's not long for this world for sure, but having the Crown publicly support him raises the stakes even further than your usual public uprising.

I've lived in a dozen cities in a half-dozen states in the U.S. and L.A. is second highest on the "never living there again" list after middle-of-nowhere, Kansas.

It's like the difference between a crackhouse and a crackhome. Like Ricky Bobby: "Hey y'all! Want some crack?" Only with cults! "Hey y'all, want some fake mumbo-jumbo plus tons and tons of slightly-off sex?"

So quote her? Or else actually have her song playing or have someone listen to her saying it, possibly at a suitably indirect-but-relevant moment? I mean, sampling has (sometimes deliberately) obscured the fact that you can legitimately honor the source and use the work by openly quoting it as someone else's work. …

This reminds me of Joss Whedon's thing about structure being everything for a movie. You have all these multitalented people just performing their guts out, loving every minute of it—and it's structured around five mandatory songs per episode that they admit just might slow the action to a crawl.

Even as a kid, I thought her perspective was pretty clearly conveyed, too. It's not like we needed a thinkpiece to explain this one to us.

I didn't recreate the stories I was told because it's been awhile, but this goes further than a "they're as bad as we are" or "they're smart and dangerous." Two of them are zookeepers and the third was a research scientist; they've all worked with lots and lots of animals and they're all capable of those…

Ever since they announced this, I was going "okay, fine, get this out of your system then go back to Borderlands…"

SR IV gets a pass from me on this point just for committing so completely to the idea of going as far with it as it can. "Wacky" implies (to me at least) going halfway; I wouldn't have said SR4 was wacky so much as insane. It's not just the gameplay or the graphic design or the writing or the plot, it's all of it. …

Reminds me of http://www.theonion.com/art…

Dang it, any way I try to parse this baby joke I've got is just lousy with Unfortunate Implications. Might have to just pass on this caption contest, alas.

The biggest counter-argument I've heard to this logic comes from three different people I know who have worked with chimps, and they all used the same phrase without ever having met one another: "Chimps are evil." Every time, every one of them: "Chimps are evil." I only ever once saw a chimp "disagreement" and it…

Exactly. If you can't watch the movie without seeing it after you read it, that doesn't mean he was wrong, it means he was right. Either way, go with it and see where it takes you.