You should listen to the podcast, but short version: There’s a big difference between burning down the Red Keep and indiscriminately killing civilians. This would be a whole different conversation if Daenerys had gone straight for Cersei, killing innocents in her quest to kill the woman who usurped the throne and…

I always wondered what the show would do when it ran out of source material. I guess the answer was fall apart.

Credit where it’s due: Emilia Clarke has usually not been much more than a decent actress (though I’ve often defended her from critics who assert she’s bad, which I don’t think she has been), but she has been absolutely wonderful this season, even as the writing for her character has turned into a trainwreck.

The difference between this and Succession is one is well written.

What an utterly baffling episode. It’s almost like this show got cancelled and the producers clapoed their hands and said, “Mm’k, let’s get this shit over with.” And then proceeded to finish the series out in the most basic way possible while ignoring 90% of the built of mythos of the books and the last 7 seasons

Regardless of GRRM’s true plans for her, D&D clearly railroaded Dany into being the Mad Queen from the very beginning.

“Two Guild Wars 2 narrative designers, Jessica Price and Peter Fries, were fired after Jessica attacked a well-established community member for asking a questions, shouted sexism, and refused to back down. This led people to dig into her Twitter page and realize she frequently posts opinions that ArenaNet does not…

Eh. I’m going to respectfully disagree in that although the bombs are hinted at if the player listens to the correct radio stations at the correct times (which is about as minimalist an approach to such a major plot point as I’ve ever seen), the detonations do wind up feeling like a deus ex machina device designed to…

Hi Kirk, Hi Ethan. Gonna chime in my thoughts. I hope you’ll indulge me.

Oh great! I can’t wait to see how Joel’s decision to DOOM ALL OF HUMANITY AND THEN LIE TO ELLIE ABOUT IT has made life even WORSE for everyone. This was a terrible idea. Unless an actual cure is a goal, zombie apocalypse games, much like zombie films and movies, are ultimately pointless. Just surviving has now gotten…

I have to admit this bothers me. I don’t like it when one country takes a symbol from another culture and make fun of it.

So the story just ends?

I hate that defense. Sure, it was his first day as a superhero. Ive yet to spend a single day super-heroing, and yet I know that knocking down a building full of people, then ignoring the survivors to go make out is BAD. I don’t need to do it first to learn this.