This is a really apt comparison. I’d personally put Marx and Engles’s work on the level of 15th century alchemy. In the understanding of their world, during that time, with their experience, those ideas were break-through and profound, helping to scry/dispell the mysteries of inequality and power structures. In my…

This is why I used ‘white’ in quotations. Not the fair skinned people we know today, per se, but people whom could be identified as genetically expressing those identifiable western European phenotypical facial traits. One of the earliest groups of peoples who we know for certain had fair skin, much like scandinavians…

There may be very fringe examples of slaves helping to *build* the ships (no historical or archaeological evidence of this exists that I’m aware of), but this was/would have been extremely rare and even counter-productive; the vast majority of slaves taken up were used/only could provide very simple, manual labor.…

As a general Horde enthusiast, and one who loves the spirit of who they are, and what they’ve always represented, that part of me is aghast and dismayed at this turn of events. As a primarily Forsaken player, lover of undead and death themes, and all things necro-related, I say: “All serve death, in the end; let the…

Well, it’s not so much an “anti-government dig” as it is an observation about the dichotomy between a publicly funded and privately funded operation. Government agencies and institutions are ultimately responsible to themselves and themselves only; private parties and entities *must* necessarily answer to outside…

Phew! I was worried Gizmodo had almost forgotten to tell me what to be offended and outraged over this time! Thanks for the help, Christina!

This is like saying that the institution that requires you to have constant live feed of the security camera footage inside your own home under mandatory safety regulations has created new manufacturing design rules for the camera industry that forces them to make it more difficult for themselves to remotely tap into.…

How... Was that word salad? Are you illiterate?

Because “white” people have been “white” for close to 40,000 years now, first identifiable since just after the last ice age. Glaciers and ground ice melted away and receded in Western Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and much of the Baltic region, giving way to an influx of migrating cultures from further east…

So you’re using your modern sensibilities of cultural normativity to jury rig an article headline about an archaeological find that indicates a people with a certain skin pigmentation ate what they needed to survive? I... don’t get it. What’s the point? Many peoples, everywhere, were forced to fall back on…

Yes, excellent! This is a superb one. Thanks for sharing and getting it out there.

Love it. The creature reminds me of a troll, specifically as from Norwegian folkore; even more so something from Norwegian illustrator Theodor Kittlesen:

Going to the Montréal Comiccon in just a couple of days and they’ll be having a Star Trek 50th anniversary special event of some kind on that Saturday. It’s its own event and basic admission is only about $30 CAD, so I’m thinking it might be worth it.

I’m firmly convinced that someone pissed squarely and unabashedly into their cheerios this morning... :/

Don’t pat yourself on the back there too much, big guy. While what you say is technically true, and is reasonable to a point, I think the spirit of your continued... “critiquing”... is, in short, *extremely* cynical, and kind of misses the point of understanding other people’s enjoyment at watching skilled laborers…

Raven Guard, dude. There’s a white raven sigil on their left pauldrons. They’re one of the very first founding legions.

I had a vast collection of EGM and Playstation Magazine (with some Nintendo Power here and there) back in the mid 90s to the early 2000s. Loved them.

On another note, is anyone else driven near-insane by ASMR? For me, it’s like a single, persistent gnat buzzing around my ear or the steady drip-drop of a leaky faucet…

Really, really disappointed about the hall for Death Knights. I was hoping for/assuming there’d be some kind of grand, grim-looking, frost-encrusted citadel in Northrend with death effigies and all that usual cool stuff. Pretty lame.

Regardless of the “validity” of some of the rebuttals to private projects in general, they all hinge on the notion that “public money” (aka the American tax pool) is the only valid and proper way to fund (space) programs. On this level, what we’re talking about now, is a voluntary vs. involuntary means of funding…

I’ve never even heard of REI, but their business model sounds like it needs some significant revising. If there is one thing I absolutely cannot stand, it’s having a product or service pushed on me repeatedly and actively trying to be sold to. I am in your store, on my own time. I choose for myself, on my own terms,…