Hey pal, you come up with a better system of transliterating Semitic languages in Internet comment threads.

[Spanish-style trilled R]A + [sound of the "tt" in a Cockney version of "bottle"] + S, UHL, [trilled uvular R, similar to French R but somehow even smuttier, not an English sound]+OOL. I would be impressed if any native English speaker got it right, which is why I'm puzzled to see a pronunciation dispute focused on…

But, uh, it's a sin, not a shin. رأس الغول. And it has a glottal stop in the middle. It should be [raʔs] or [raʔis], depending on which version of the word one uses, and the rest should be [ʔɑl ʁul].

But if Zoidberg fixes it…then perhaps gifts?

…@charlessage believes in this company. (wipes away tear)

Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that as well. The contrast with its general cynicism, as well as the serialization @mjlowe mentioned, allowed the emotional moments to hit much harder and feel much more like the end result of character evolution and changing dynamics, rather than the previously established…

That's how I feel. I've actually given it more thought than two cartoons with a similar aesthetic and a shared executive producer probably merit (heresy!), and I think I've boiled it down to a few principles:

All of—uh, post-season eight, of course! I, for one, welcome our mid-'90s cartoon renaissance overlords!

You still have Futurama! You all still have Futurama!

Come on, man, it's the actors, y'know? General Electric, Kraft, Adrien Brody, Vladimir Putin, Chipotle, Van Damme. It's just like what Miley Cyrus is doing right now.

I believe the paramount example was the Four Tops' "It's the Same Old Song," which immediately followed "I Can't Help Myself." But that was at least self-aware. These kids today, they think they invented metatextuality.

Other Simultaneously Incoherent and Reprehensible Things Max Bemis Has Said:

I don't know if any of you ladies, gentlemen, anime characters and Archmages are still reading, but I noticed a fair number of questions concerning the nature of the Kaziri, Irisa and Kai. I've managed to piece it mostly together from Syfy Sync and the video game. Nobody's favorite plot, I know, but the answers are…

Bard's Tongue, eh? Well, considering most of the skills the good Lord rolled for me totally do that stuff to people while often resulting in horrible unintended consequences, another one can't hurt in any way that would be particularly noticeable. Tira los dados, ñoño!

The gold Kelovan was definitely what was causing him to see visions of Luke, and manipulating his actions (odd that the Kaziri evidently didn't want to end up in Mayor Nicky's hands, that was never explored). If anything caused him to shift from "generally nice boy" to "cold-blooded pawn" it's probably all the wetwork…

Yeah, maybe her Darla voice was a bit annoying, but I have to root for Julie Benz. Apparently she was told at the outset of her career that her voice was so bad that she should give up on acting. So every second of her career is basically an ongoing fuck you to that guy.

Yeah, the improbability of those beams destroying all the Ark fragments struck me as well. I just rewatched it, and while it seems the entire Arkbelt is destroyed, the shot that shows the debris spreading out is also from far enough away that any surviving Arks wouldn't be visible. Don't know if that's intentional and…

Was the entire Arkbelt destroyed, though? Or was every Terraspire in the belt used up? That was something I wasn't clear on. I always figured they'd keep at least some Arks because the potential for people still alive in cryosleep in orbit is something the show has exploited a couple times (Gordon McClintock, the…

Oh, something from the game's main plot that people who don't have the time/means/inclination to play might find illuminating:

Probably won't visit Florida, since it's been rendered completely uninhabitable (well, more so) due to being the site of multiple secret biological and nuclear weapons experiments which contaminated the environment after the Terraforming in the wake of Arkfall. But Kevin Murphy has confirmed that season three will be…