That's actually one of the better explanations. Apologies to the people who spent way more time trying to explain it…

No one's making you explain or justify anything. You could have scrolled past.

That's interesting. I love the Lucasarts-type games (I'm currently stuck on the Day of the Tentacle remaster), but the plot is always a really minor part of it for me - actually, some of the Monkey Islands I love despite the plot.

"But someone on the internet said it was fine!"
"Well okay then, if it was on the internet…"

I don't really understand the appeal of this kind of game. If I'm after a story, I'll watch or read something that isn't basically a badly animated choose-your-own-adventure novel (and at least those had the possibility of totally different endings). If I'm after a game, I'll play something where I get to do something…

Tell yourself that, honey.

You know you're in trouble when people are saying of you that you're like Nixon, only with worse judgement.

He's from an alternate reality where Bruce Wayne just stays in the monastery.

Wow, I missed the vacation aspect of it. You're right, that was terrible advice.

Yeah, some gay men need to learn that they don't have a license for misogyny.

Cheers! Just to be clear, I wasn't arguing that upbringing has no impact on what we're like as adults. I just get annoyed when people act like you can predict someone's entire adult personality and life trajectory from what they're like when they're two. Or 'you were like this as a child and like that as an adult and…

The unusual articles list is also amazing (although bad if you don't want to waste several hours).

22.86 Centimetre Nails: Redirect to Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor is not likely to go metric any time soon.

That was great, thank you.

Yeah, it's nice on the inside, which makes the hideous outside even weirder.

I always struggle to understand how Christianity beat out the Roman/Greek gods. Look at the world and tell me who's more likely to be in charge: an all powerful, all knowing, benevolent deity, or a bunch of frat boys with superpowers?

This is a bit of a random segue, but am I the only one weirded out by how huge and ugly Chuck's house is? I would expect someone like that to live in a really nice looking, architecturally designed house (or a nicely restored old one), not a giant yellow box that looks like a cheap tenement.

He's right. The main reason people see the 'we don't know if this character will live or die' as important is because if you know a character isn't going to die, the scenes where they're supposedly in mortal peril lose their suspense. But if you're depending completely on that sense of peril to make the scene…

The only way that'll happen is if it's a 'we don't have the time or energy to worry about trivial nuisances now that the apocalypse has happened' culture.

I haven't seen Breaking Bad, and while I would really prefer not to know who does and doesn't die, I don't think it's reasonable to demand protection from spoilers from a show that ended nearly four years ago. I accept that nearly everyone here except me has seen it, and if I want to avoid spoilers I can choose not to…