Boy, did the shit hit the fan tonight, or what? I cheered when Lagertha planted that dagger into her husband's eye, though the impact was somewhat diminished by History's own spoilers. She looked like she was prepared to go down fighting when that guy drew his sword, but I guess Jarl Assface wasn't very well-liked…

I've read that the 48% figure included mobile games, which are usually played by more women than console/PC games are. However, that doesn't change the fact that there are a significant amount of console/PC game-playing women as well (myself included) who are being actively discounted by developers when they design…

Wow, somehow I totally missed that. Thanks for the heads up, I'm looking forward to it already.

Too true… I guess we'll just have to wait and see where they go with her.

When he said "Ravish me," all I could think was, "Well, if God won't, I will!"

Yeah, I actually saw her exit in the last scene to be a farewell to the character, because there's really not much else they could do with her that would still be somewhat based in history. That's why DP's interpretation that now she's going to be more of a main character struck me as very odd, given the context.

I loved the way Ragnar and Lagertha's parental concern for Bjorn played out during the battle. Every so often, one or the other would cast a glance in his direction, and the second he got into trouble, Ragnar was there to protect him until he got back up. It was quite touching, and made me think for a moment that…

Hey, shoggoths are no laughing matter! I'd like to see how you react when one of those gelatinous horrors comes oozing toward you out of an ice cave. "Unexpected" doesn't begin to describe it.

Can't be, it has nothing to do with the missing plane.

I too perversely miss that, despite that 9 times out of 10, the manual got lost five years ago and now you need to Google it in order to continue the game. Of course, pre-Google, you were just screwed.

Ah yes, Quantity O. Butts. I hear she's descended from Roman aristocracy…

They seriously don't do anything. My friend and his girlfriend(!) both recently became MRAs because neither has a job, so they spend all their time reading terrible Tumblr pages and then posting rants about "feminists" on Facebook. They're losing their house and they still won't do anything to make money except pimp…

Some with just X's too, dude! I found out what a paleontologist was at the age of 6, and whenever any adult asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I'd tell them, and they'd just give me this confused look like "And what the hell is that?" So I, the kid, always had to dumb it down for them, "A person who digs up…

Man, those Scholastic book orders were awesome. They could be pretty hit or miss, but they got me into Animorphs, the Redwall series (which also gets pretty formulaic after a while), and even introduced me to Roald Dahl. I wonder, do they still do them in schools, or did the internet make them obsolete?

I was so ready to rejoice, then they dashed my hopes! Damn basic cable!

You could see the relief on his face, though. I think that, like many viewers, he was surprised in the extreme that they would really go that far, so soon after his capture. Once he was granted a reprieve, it appeared evident that he felt nothing but gratitude for it (also pain, of course, but hey). Now, when he…

Ichor. Cadaver Generated Ichor, just oozing all over the picture.

I've really been looking forward to Athelstan's arc this season, and they kicked it off right with his killing of that monk. The look on his face as he watched the guy die clutching the Bible was just "I am so going to hell now." He tried to mitigate it somewhat by telling the bishop to run, and later, by putting…

In general, the languages other than modern English see only sporadic usage, I don't think there really is a "rule" about them per se. Both Old English and Norse (old or modern, I can't tell) get used occasionally just to distinguish that yes, we're in the past and no, these guys don't understand each other (with the…

I too hate Aslaug and love Athelstan. I was so happy to hear some Old English this ep; it's amazing how easy it is to recognize certain words, especially if you know a bit of German. I'm pretty sure Siggy was getting it on with King Horik, though, not Jarl Borg (which I always hear as "Jawohl" for some reason). …