See, now that I'd understand... with us it was more that the paladin would refuse to interact with someone that they tagged as evil, even party members. Which could be a real pain.

Yeah, I guess my main problem with a paladin is that they tend to end up as grease stains because of exactly what you describe... they either piss of some evil being, or they get killed by their own party. They are kind of interesting to explore as character, but the person playing them has to recognize that their…

Poor Batman. Seriously, I hope Darkseid is nice enough to give him someone on the level of a Bane or Joker to deal with while he's busy beating Superman to death with Wonder Woman.

I've known people who hated other characters so much that they developed elaborate, branching trees designed to lead, ultimately, to a character's doom. The problem is that sort of thing almost always leads to hurt feelings, or an early end to a game.

You know, I've gotten to the age as a D&D player where I'd much rather people have a consistent character than a consistent alignment. I've had characters in games I've run have genocidal intentions towards whole species of tremendously evil beings that were motivated by dark thoughts of revenge. Does that make…

Particularly since Paladins have the ability to detect evil with magic, and have a mandate to defeat evil people or else lose their alignment and class abilities. I honestly find them to be profoundly creepy characters, because their persecution of evil is entirely based on the idea that their magic (which isn't able…

Heh, I had the opposite experience... the bread and blood of Jesus always made me so hungry, but you'd have to wait for another half hour before lunch. Though Lutheran's never thought of it as anything other than metaphor.

I think it would be interesting to have scientists continually regenerate one of these jellyfish for a really extended period of time and see what happens. Because I'm curious if immortality would ever happen in real life, given the huge attrition rate of predation on little tasty things in the ocean, and if it does…

What's really funny is that I assumed that the first episode on the DVDs was the real first episode, and that they had started the show with a 'previously on'. Since I'd been told that the show was famously weird, I was actually pretty happy that it was that way right from the start.

I'm also highly skeptical any sensible Bigfoot would live that close to Detroit.

When I saw ID4 in theaters, everyone clapped at the end of his speech. One of the things I like best about theaters, is the spontaneous response of the audience like that.... just like how when a bee stung Scully before she could kiss Mulder, everyone groaned.

Actually, from what I understand the Gospels were written down in Greek first. If there was a historical Jesus, he probably would have spoken Aramaic, but aside from a few references to Aramaic words within the Gospels, there is no reason to presume that they're translations. Some people have even made a fairly good…

If he can fix the stars in the sky, he can fix the iceberg.

I think part of the problem is that (and this is particularly true if you grow up religious, as most atheists do), that religions keep you stuck in a very specific web of interpretations and viewpoints on their Holy Book. As an ex-Lutheran, I'll tell you, we never once cracked the Book of Job, the Song of Solomon, or…

I'm really still at a loss for this. As someone who started on the path to atheism through sci-fi and Carl Sagan, is this article just telling me that I did it wrong? Or that being open minded is the same as accepting something that says you have to accept it on faith?

@TheLemming

Wow. Okay.

Yeah. Isn't it funny how Buffy had essentially the same odd vampire situation, and yet did it a hundred billion times better?

While I'll give Twighlight props for taking the concept of a 'soulmate' to its creepiest possible conclusion, if werewolves can just imprint on some random person, they should all be on every sort of watchlist... is there even any sort of consent involved in this process?

I'd definitely believe there would be spores up there, though I think it would be a really difficult environment for something to actually live up there, for no other reason than life requires a variety of different elements, and I can't imagine there is much in the way of iron up there.