Actually in days of yore opinion polls shows that it was a well-liked fee. Back in 2001 a survey showed it was actually popular amongst the general population. But over the last fifteen or so years it's been under attack from the left (for being a regressive tax) and from the right for basically being a tax and…

It's more minor secondary or tertiary characters. Well, that and the fact that he inexplicably made Cyborg Roy Cohn into the villain in a Christmas Special with a very confused attitude towards HIV.

Well, no, and Big Gay Rusty's Big Gay Agenda also has a lot of tokenism built in, but it makes more sense when you realize it was all about trying to help younger kids arrive at progressive values.

Haha. "The Might and Money of the BBC"

Davies was pretty clear about this. He viewed Doctor Who, first and foremost, as a family show that children watch with their parents. So his goal was to try and instill progressive values in kids. This is especially important because so much SF&F is hyper-regressive.

Oh hey it's the glistening head penis episode.

Yeah but I think sperg works here because

I think the resolution actually made more sense than the first D&D episode. Fathers and sons tend to bond through play, whether it's because of how we're socialized by society or not, and whether it's parallel play like hunting and fishing or competitive play like sports or unreal tournament, it makes sense as a way…

The Group are all terrible, overbearing, shitty people who are convinced that they're like, the best and most important and coolest people ever. This is like, the whole point of Season Three. Several of them point out it's a terrible idea, and neither of the Hickeys want to be there.

That's not what that means. "rolling a character" means making one, It's a reference to the use of dice to determine a character's basic attributes.

I could've worded that better. Players were supposed to roll them, but the company that manufactured them didn't intend for them to be used as dice.

The worst game for that is Exalted IME, since it's got powers that effectively double (or more) your dice.

Because it's not a review. It's about providing a starting point for conversation based on the notion that that will create a strong community that views a lot of pages and clicks a lot of adverts.

When I run a game I generally roll all the dice, but that's mostly because I usually run online and I play games like WoD that can involve a really high number of dice per roll.

Todd: The players don't, in fact, always roll their own dice. In fact, it's not uncommon in a lot of systems (including, IIRC, D&D) for the GM to roll anything where a failure might tip the players off, like a search or spot check, or encounter rolls.

I am never going to understand how Phelps, crusading civil rights attorney who won accolades for helping black people and women sue over discrimination, turned so overtly hateful. I mean he'd been pulling the primitive baptist hardcore calvinist thing for decades by that point, but it's such a change in his outward…

Phelps was actually pretty sure he was going to hell. He was a hardcore Calvinist.

Hey, another example of the show cannibalizing the eighties that I thought you in particular might dig: the official crew clothes for Series 8 are using the JNT Neon Logo for internal purposes. You can see a pretty good shot of it on a shirt here:
http://i.imgur.com/gWgZVAy.jpg

It makes a lot of sense! Ten is capricious with a penchant for ironic punishments and hypocrisy. No second chances, he's that sort of a man. I mean, good god, look at The Runaway Bride. He kills babies en mass.That's in Psalm 137! "Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." Sometimes…

The comparison is interesting because the show is now at a point where it's referencing times it's referenced that late seventies/eighties SF/Comic zeitgeist. The Live Chess arena from The Wedding of River Song is pretty clearly based on this era of the show, for instance.