Is it though?

The fact that they're Hermaphrodites is a book thing. It's why Daenerys could be "The Prince that was Promised" - In Westerosi that phrase demands a male, but in the original Valyrian it would have been more ambiguous, because their word for "Prince" was connected to their word for "Dragon" and there are no gendered…

I fucking wish anyone in the U.S. government was serious enough about Gun Control to initiate a vast conspiracy to implement it.

It was moderately funny for the first day and a half.

There are an uncountable number of people yelling that. The problem is that they're not funny assholes, they're just assholes.

I love that the government's highest priority in a crisis is to establish hierarchy.

Is the series still on track to die after a single season of limping along on an unpopular streaming platform?

I had one that lived out in front of my house for a while. Every night he'd spin his web, every day he'd scuttle it and hide. Very considerate.

Counterquestion: How long would it take humanity to eat all of the spiders?

I finished Andromeda last night and have a largely positive opinion of it. The combat is extremely tight, the characters are solid (if not necessarily my favorites ever) and the world they've built has a lot of potential going forward. The Inquisition gameplay model (partitioning the world into several discrete "open…

One of the grand tragedies of the modern age is the death of the public domain. Entire generations are born and live and die without seeing anything they care about pass out of copyright. The idea that the public domain has intrinsic value, something that was accepted by the writers of the Constitution and America's…

They clearly have a pretty loose definition of "Blooper." Two of the clips were just "Black people talkin' funny" and one was "Rural white man talkin' funny."

He actually becomes a Jedi over the course of the movie, but at the end he gets bonked on the head and loses all memory of that having happened.

I would give almost anything for the Democratic party to be even 1/10th as committed to anti-gun legislation as crazed internet right-wingers pretend they are.

See, I'm exactly the opposite. I instantly absorb character names but can't name a single actor from anything ever.

Part of me wants to point out that this isn't actually true (we know how bees fly, it's not a big deal) and part of me thinks this has to be some kind of reference or meme that I'm not getting.

All the talk of "Bubbles" starts to feel pretty inauthentic when everything else is such a fucking garbage fire.

I agree. I'm not generally sympathetic to this kind of thing, but when you're talking about something as universal as currency, avoiding controversy is probably the right move.

I'm like 90% sure this article was written by a computer, some kind of automatic thinkpiece generator.

I know we usually rag on GJI, but this is rad as fuck and I will fight anyone who claims otherwise.