Pretty sure they're talking about the forest on the Byzantium. That one had a river, and it's rumoured that we're revisiting that story in the second half.

The Autobot Amos and Andy are back? Ugh.

I heard it was something like Inception, with Steinfeld having to fight her way through a surreal, fluctuating dreamscape in order to return to consciousness. Which is cool, because it means that she actually gets to do something instead of being passive and it (presumably) writes off the Prince's kiss as just so much…

Yeah but that would require Ray Kurzweil to be right about pretty much anything, when even he admits his futurism is driven by wide-eyed babyfaced optimism that has more to do with aspiration and his anxiety over the death of his father.

No, that's not what explicable means. It means it makes sense. Cause and effect.

@heywhat: There being a reason for what he did doesn't make it okay. It makes it explicable. The fact he was a victim doesn't change the fact that he slammed another kid into the pavement. I'm not saying he should be punished, and I'm not saying he should shoulder the full brunt of the blame, but he did something…

Pretty much every system worth its salt suggests that XP be used as a carrot/stick. Hell, that was what prompted me to run nWoD: It institutionalizes the use of XP (either witholding or giving bonuses) to reward/punish different kinds of behaviour.

What bothers me about Casey is that we have this fundamentally wrong-headed tendency of forgiving him for what he did. He was wrong to do it. It is never appropriate to make another kid bite the pavement. I'm not saying that he's completely to blame for what happened, a lot of fault rests with the kid who provoked…

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The only place on the internet where people know Chirstina Hendricks for Firefly instead of Mad Men.

Banks himself once said that he focused on people who didn't fit in the culture because people who did were largely boring. They lived happy lives bereft of desperation (quiet or otherwise) and want. Snooze City. Even in texts where technology is a liberating force it's still about the struggle between the huddled…

Also it's worth noting that we have no idea if technology actually did result in liberation in Egypt- The extent to which it was involved in the day-to-day of the protests is unclear (with some protesters saying word of mouth and AJE broadcasts were a bigger factor in sharing information and growing the crowd) and we…

I think that part of it is that we've seen the failure of the techno-ideological, or at least, the techno-utopian, in the past century. In stories where technology liberates us the technology itself has an ideological quality (sometimes literally, as in VALIS), and it is an ideology that has failed.

It'd be different if like, we were important enough to warrant a position on the GENESIS ARK OF MAGICAL UNICORN FOREVER that would blast off into space but basically none of us are. So why should we give two tugs of the pope's dick about it?

If the world only has another 25 years I think we should give up on this whole science thing, along with education, tranformative political change, w/e, and just focus on getting really hammered and having anonymous sex with as many partners as possible.

Really? Because I Miss the nasty, ascerbic, filthy, grotesque cartoon about a group of misfits in a Glee Club. Don't kid yourself about it being sweet. It was often very cynical and nasty. Hence you get characters like April Rhodes who's basically a cleaned up Jerri Blank. That's why you got stuff like Emma (whatever…

I saw Magritte and firrst I was all HELLS NAW but then I remembered Sailboat and Sirens and it's like "Oh yeah, I can see that"