Isn’t a whole thing about the Targaryens their whole otherworldly, almost Elven beauty?

Is Dee being pursued by Hounds of Tindalos? The persistence of the creepy little girls mimics theirs.

It’s kind of funny that this line is then followed by chapters full of examples of discriminated minorities throwing off the yoke of the oppressors and going off their own ways as Nomad clans.

They’re not. At least if we look at the source material, plenty of non-Asian people have adopted those swords.

While there’s many uncomfortable Orientalist details about Cyberpunk, this isn’t really one of them. It’s been established that there are separate Chinese and Japanese districts in Night City, and the district of Kabuki is even mentioned to have been originally built by Japanese immigrants who since mostly moved on,…

As I recall (ha!), the only one who contested whether it was rape was the rapist, himself. 

Even Christopher Lambert’s weird performance had a unique charm to it, the whiteness was a bit distracting, though.

The Greeks themselves posited a similar theory in the ancient times, and Christians later followed suit, as they also did with Norse and Celtic gods, interpreting them as human rulers who were later erroneously deified.

Portrayals of the ancient Rome tend to use British accents when made for English-speaking audiences, since the British English has similar class-based accents as the ancient Latin did, so viewers can tell the relative social status of the characters the same way the characters themselves could.

Pretty much the entire Soulsborne crowd is going to buy it; the ones who are getting the PS5, anyway. The reason the original wasn’t a hit was because it’s the first in the series, not many people knew about it or its creators. Now it’s the origin story of a beloved franchise (in meta, not lore sense). 

My memory is fuzzy on the subject, but I seem to recall reading (during a Wiki-dive) that Lovecraft himself was both fascinated and revulsed by transgender people to the point that they made several appearances in his stories as aliens and the like. Does that scan with any Lovecraft readers?

Guess the waiter either thought that she was more informed than she was, or wanted to teach her a lesson about vague orders. When I ordered sake in a Japanese bar, I got a handwritten list of nihonshu brands that would have been difficult to read even if I’d have mastered the kanji. I ended up asking for a…

True, as far as the names go, but if you go as a foreigner and ask for sake, they will definitely offer you nihonshu — been there, done that. And I’m pretty sure that they’ll ask a local for clarification rather than guess what kind of alcohol they’re after. 

In real life many animal populations have sprung up from surprisingly small gene pools. In my country, for instance, white-tailed deers were introduced in the early 20th century with three males and ten females. Every single white-tailed deer in the country descends from them. And while they have issues with genetic…

The embryos could have been carefully selected or even genetically engineered to have no hereditary traits that would have resulted in defects down the line. 

If your butthole contains a million teeth, you may want to get that checked. 

If anything, its prominence will probably remind people to keep it clean. 

Makes you wonder how many night watchmen already know about the secret door... 

As long as there are regions with slow, expensive and/or unreliable Internet, like much of the rural America, there’s going to be demand for physical media. 

Did you ask your grandmother’s opinion about whether she’d prefer another decade of healthy life before giving her the death sentence? Who are you to decide when people have lived “long enough”? The United States went to war over 3,000 deaths, a war whose effects carry on to this day. But 200,000 and counting isn’t…