Basque is unrelated to either the Indo-European or the Uralic language families, so it wasn't included.

I understand why people think of Scots as a dialect rather than a separate language, but I can't help but think such people have clearly never actually heard Scots...

No, Frisian is not "evolving into" English. That makes no sense.

I forgot it was getting there already! I'm excited. I've been pretty interested in New Horizons since I first heard about it however-many years ago, it'll be sweet to see what it sends back.

That's close to the original meaning of the term, but it's changed since then, and today is used in a variety of ways by a variety of people. Which is the problem, IMO—people mean so many different things by it, it's no longer a useful label.

People always say that—myself included, historically—but I've never actually seen hard data on that. I don't really know how you'd go about designing a study to look at that, but has anybody tried? Looked at uses of it in professional reviews or something like that.

I agree. I think if you're careful to define your use of "Mary Sue", it can still be meaningful, but if you don't specify how you're using it, it has so broad of a meaning that it's basically useless. Honestly, these days it mostly seems to just mean "character I find annoying", and that's not very useful in terms of…

I just don't understand comics fans like that. Helloooo, you read comics, the medium most notorious for retcons and wildly differing continuity depending on what book/author/issue you happen to pick up. What are you complaining about?

Oh, Kvothe.

Let's be real. Does anyone actually like Guy?

Unfortunately, it wasn't all that great, from what I remember.

Interesting selection of products for a fruit stand, eh, Skynet?

I still can't get over the fact that that's Brandon Keener's real voice. I was positive it was a voice filter in the games, but nope, it's all him.

My friends labeled me the queen of Alt-Tab for this very reason. Who needs a mouse?

But only one, exactly one, named Emilio Ortega.

This week is the first time I watched either the Flash or the Arrow... my sister and a friend roped me into it.

As I said when I was watching the episode, I'm pretty sure that is literally a textbook example of "not guilty by reason of insanity".

Some friends of mine roped me into watching this episode and the most recent episode of Arrow, and... I was surprised. I never watched the Arrow or the Flash because I figured as much as I like DC Comics, the live action shows couldn't possibly actually be any good.

The forest one at least had the redeeming features of being pretty, I thought, and had a couple of genuinely creepy moments for me... while Love and Monsters was just 100% awful all the way through (or at least the bad bits were so bad that I can't remember anything good about it anymore).

I'm firmly of the opinion that even if the outcome isn't what you thought it would be, the motives behind your actions still count.