I think this is the one I’m misremembering as carbon monoxide, it was one of the methods looked at by a doc on executions I watched. The people they had looking at the different methods (a mix of officers, judges, etc) completely dismissed it because of the euphoria, part of the reason being that any family members of…

Using Heroin (medical grade) is a supply issue, few drug companies are ok with the idea of their product being used to kill in this way. IIRC the issue with carbon monoxide is that it can have a briefly euphoric effect, and apparently it’s not ok to execute someone if they’re going to like part of it (this may be part…

It’s ok, someone made a version that fixed it...

Ergh, that sounds worryingly reminiscent of a similar bit of junk science used at the hight of the Satanic Panic. In that case (IIRC) it was a muscular reflex an expert claimed was unique to children who had been anally raped (turned out it’s a normal reflex, it’s just that not everyone has it).

Argyle sweater kid knows what’s up.

Most parents manage to see their adult children regularly enough without directly employing them Donald.

If it was really actually truely really real you’d probably stuggle to find venues to perform it in, never mind enough venues to tour the act.

Yup, pretty much every “was THIS your card?” trick is fundimentally the same just with different layers of pazzaz on it. It’s mechanically the same regardless of if you pull the card from the pack, an apple, or have a 20 ft high version hung from a building behind you.

Well, you can get books which are games so that idea is hardly absurd, but I’m not talking about background details or easter eggs, I’m talking about how the bulk of the narrative is presented as a something to be solved, not something to have presented to you. The whole thing is effectively a puzzle.

I think every version is the extended version now so you’re probably good. :)

See I find this argument very in odd regards to Gone Home in particular, it’s a mystery point and click (yes, its presented in first person, but think of it in P&C terms and a lot of what it does is pretty familiar) and is pretty clearly a game as far as I can see, I mean it isn’t Proteus or Mountain or any number of…

IIRC they made the first demo for Gone Home using the engine Frictional developed for the Amnesia games, they definitely like and know horror games even if they don’t make them themselves.

Why not both? Miss Teen Republican!

I think Sansa’s big lesson from Littlefinger is that it’s much better being a puppet master than a puppet, she’s where she wants to be (and so should Jon be tbh, he’s awful at making desisions and hopefully knows it at this point).

And how! Turns out what Dorne needed was an audience surrogate to tell all the sand snakes to stfu.

Mutually assured destruction is looking like a pretty good option at the moment.

Whilst I appreciated Yara’s casual lesbianism last week, it couldn’t help but feel a little like a work around to avoid dethroning Olyvar from his position as (apparently) the universe’s only male prostitute.

I’m hoping the “rumour” that Qyburns little birds have found is a flaw in the High Sparrow, and not one he can hand-wave with a waffle about how penitent he is. (Mind you I also hoped that Arya acting weird last week would have a payoff this week sooo...)

“Make a small boy travel at speed toward a solid object” does seem to be Jaime’s...oddly specific, way of showing his love.