Ironic that Archer is probably the one that looks least like their voice actor.

My best friend in the world and I needed to spend a few years not talking to one another because we were legitimately bad for each other’s mental health for a while.

This is a pretty good and nuanced take but I have also just realized that I want an incredibly dumb series about the Legion of Doom.

Gotta admit here that I’m a pretty big fan of the general vibe of the Doom Patrol comics and have never been able to be assed to sign up for what ever streamer is carrying the show or to pirate it despite only hearing mostly good reviews.

I largely don't mask outside of hospitals/doctor's offices/public transportation anymore, but I still carry one to put on around someone else wearing one at the grocery store or whatever just because they probably have some reason they are wearing one and it seems like the polite thing to do.

A couple of years ago, I was shocked at how little a 500 GB external SSD cost, especially compared to how much more it would have cost me to get a laptop that came with one just a few months before.

I miss Scott Van Pelt getting them to have Carl make an NFL pick every week for Sportscenter and call the segment “Carl’s Stone Cold Lock of the Century, of the Week!”

I thought they had actually hacked electronic construction signs or something like that.  I'll defer to you though since that happened several years before I lived in Boston.

The missing comma between Chicago and 4 made me think for a second that the kid's name was just Chicago 4.  Which would still be hilariously on brand.

I know that the Dick Wolf verse is copaganda bit they really do have character development and a lived-in world

I mean, tobacco will get you high, especially if you don't smoke it often and you're using a pipe.  There's a reason it's considered one of the most addictive drugs.

My first thought actually went to Tom Bombadil, just because he's a kind of unexplored character but we know he is not affected by the rings.  And the whole talking to fireflies/sprites/whatever fits him MO.

Wait, can I do that? Is his address public?

Sort of tangential to the point, but several years ago the long-running roguelike Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup renamed “race” to “species” and regendered a lot of unique enemies and renamed some unique items that had some unfortunate connotations (e.g., Sword of Jihad is now the Zealot's Sword). A surprisingly loud…

I don’t really have the same problem with Galadriel kicking ass as a warrior that a lot of people seem to. If you effectively live forever you’re probably going to walk a lot of different paths in life and get very good at most of them as long as you don’t get yourself killed before learning how to do it.

I am now reminded of Discworld and how scandalous the more conservative dwarves found it that many of the females who moved to Ankh-Morpork were clean shaven and wore dresses and such.

Fair point. What I was getting at in a roundabout way was that most evangelical churches are barely even the same religion as mainline protestant /catholic /orthodox /Coptic churches outside of some shared terminology.

Naturally, I just made a post functionally equivalent to this post because I didn't scroll through the comments first. 

One important thing the internet did was to allow the authoritarians and racists and conspiracy theorists to talk to each other and push one another further down the rabbit hole.

I'm fairly convinced that a lot of them haven't actually read the damned book, and either go off of what the preacher tells them or skim it to cherry pick things that plausibly can be made to conform to their pre-existing prejudices.