In retrospect, with Gregory deciding to rule over dish choices with an iron fist - they were going to make his menu and his menu alone (unlike Kevin, who mistakenly let Voltaggio put his own spin on shrimp & grits that didn’t fit), Gregory’s choices make more sense - Malarkey won’t mess up that by being FOH and…

Suspect this is part of the reasoning behind it - I, like I suspect many people, only got twitch prime when Amazon made it an auto perk of Amazon Prime.  That probably greatly boosted the # of Twitch prime subscribers, but also reduced their ability to get ads from companies as a result.  So they could’ve separated…

In the Old EU (sigh, Legends), TIE Fighters were specifically singled out for being non-aerodynamic, which limited their maneuverability in atmosphere. That said, X-Wings were considered not to have this issue, sooooo yeah.

This is not the first time they’ve had a drink-element to the challenge with a contestant who couldn’t drink (I think back in Boston?). I remember back in the blogs for that challenge they excused it by saying that they didn’t judge based on the drinks, despite the appearance in the episode of doing so.

They no longer…

Is io9 doing book reviews again? Because I miss when this was a regular thing

CEO has for several years had a gimmick where the actual finals for every game are played in a real wrestling ring. It’s specific to CEO

Jaran by Kate Elliott is EXCELLENT (as are the remaining 3 books in the series).

This is a weird conspiracy theory again that has no proof. The donations literally go straight to PCF (You can see this on PCF’s tax returns every year in fact!).