lol I had the low-fi equivalent happen: a homeless drunk bumping into me dropping his brown bag of drink, and demanding I buy him a new bottle of vodka. I opened the bag in front of him and it was a coke bottle or something. I enjoyed the whole thing so much I gave him a dollar anyway.

Man, how amazing and refreshing it would have been to just run the source audio instead of having someone talk over it explaining what the source audio sounds like. I’m so damn sick of nonstop talking heads. Hey, you won’t get fired if you can just shut up for five seconds, okay?

soooo, we’re going for the Deadwood strategy.

Holy Shit! Apparently Nathan Rabin has somehow finally mutated, fly-like, into the entire AV Club Staff! And My Year Of Flops has been scattered to the four winds in the process. Perhaps the greatest reviewer this site ever had, and the forefather of current serial AV features like “A History of Violence” meets an…

I have a different problem with your analysis. It ignores the fact that the storytellers (whether GRRM or the showrunners) were directly and explicitly addressing this trope, not following it out of some kind of privilege blindness. This was the whole point of the scene where Jon is getting hero’s credit for riding a…

They failed to clearly communicate two things:

- that Jon’s rejection of her gave her no future as a queen, even one shared with Jon as King.

To be fair, she did just lose Missandei who mattered to her. She’s watching her “rightful claim to the throne” be taken out from underneath her. And I think most people seem to be missing (because it was so ineptly communicated) that the last straw appears to be the moment the soldiers threw their swords as Snow’s…

it was a bit simplistic to see her pin her sole hopes for optimism on the idea that Jon Snow still wanted to get it on with her (really? “Fear it is, then” because your nephew doesn’t have sex with you any more?)

I’m reminded in a way of Breaking Bad, where the Big Boss (Hank) was taken out with three whole episodes left. 

You raise a good point, which only shows what a master Spielberg is. Because with all the fog of war stuff, it was still *always* clear exactly what was going on.

I won’t lie, I love watching spectacles of scale as much as anyone but I preferred the previous episode more for this very reason.

I keep thinking about how the person who taught Arya everything she knows is still likely planning to take her face.

You got it, troll :) 

Not networking skills. Networking opportunities. And I think we’re using the term networking slightly differently.

Man, this is pretty basic, but I get why that is. I was hoping for more about materials - for example, just in the “spoon” category (a term I’ve never heard before), you have glass, aluminum, brass, even solid zinc in the case of what I consider the greatest pipe ever made, the legendary Journey3. Brass bats are…

The problem with “ride the dragon” scenes is, every time I zero in on Danerys, the limitations of this show’s CGI budget become apparent and I might as well be watching the Isis TV show from the 70s.

So I *am* someone who has a history with the character, a practically archetypal one. I was the perfect age, 8 years old, when the first issue of the 70s revival showed up. It was *my* thing, as if I discovered something nobody else knew was so awesome.

There is something substantial you get out of an upper class school, even if you just go there to socialize: networking. You can make lifelong friends there, and if it’s a good school, those friends are more likely to help you with their connections throughout your life. Sure, it’s still an aristocratic system at work…

Have you tried Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva? Fantastic sipping rum. 

Great timing, I’m about to replace a 500Gb SSD with a 2 Tb one. The old one is running an upgrade (not a clean install) of win 10 from win 7. Will there be any snags just using the same reg number on the second drive? Will the first one still work as well if I want to boot it? Or do I have to do some kind of…