Really? Goddammit, I just added Futurama to my queue so I could slowly rewatch it. Guess I'll do it all this month then.

I believe they did that as counter-programming for the Olympics. Unusually ballsy move for Canadian TV.

It's especially messed up because dogs have been specifically bred to display love and affection to their owners. They love us because we designed them to love us. Reductively speaking, they're genetically modified organisms programmed to worship us.

Ken Jennings is scratching his trivia itch on the online trivia website LearnedLeague. It's invite only and I think there are only 6000 people on it. I forget his record but while he's in the top tier, he does worse than he did on Jeopardy, which should show the level of trivia nerd they have on that website.

I don't watch live, thanks to certain externalities of life. However, I remember someone mentioning in the comments for a previous episode that Cara Gee (a.k.a. Drummer, Fred Johnson's lieutenant) was in the Western TV show Strange Empire and asked how it was.

It works thusly:

Yeah, it's already done. It's been a while since Toronto had a smog alert, and as I recall I used to see black stuff in my snot when I blew my nose into a Kleenex during the summer. Haven't seen that lately either. Apparently 2014 was the first smog-free summer in decades in ole Tronna.

That Wikipedia link of matrilineal societies doesn't say the Thai are matrilineal. What it says is that they're matrilocal, which means that when couples get married they're traditionally expected to live with the woman's family, not the man's.

Some of the old-timers made a life raft:

Don't forget how he regularly tortures his enemies (i.e., threatening to throw prisoners off a building) and is able to get 100% reliable intel from these enhanced interrogations.

Sorry, I was reading through many other comments and thought you were talking about tentacle porn. That specific genre was enabled through a regulatory loophole in Japanese obscenity laws. My understanding is that current porn creators have alternate dodges in place now.

You sure it wasn't Arsenio in the 90's? Or heck, maybe Arnie recycled that tidbit on all the late night talk shows.

What about it? I mean, what relevance does 30 year old porn have to the current discussion? Should we also be talking about Custer's Revenge and Seka?

So when you said it was the most ultra anime game ever, you meant it was the most D&D game ever?

I meant in the specific case of Dragon's Crown, where from what I can see the objectionable bullshit is homegrown by the video game industry.

But it seems that your objection is not to visual representations produced by the anime industry, but instead to visual representations produced by the video game industry. Calling them all "anime bullshit" just hides where the actual blame for this bullshit should fall on.

Right, they look like grotesquely exaggerated moving images of the kind one would find spray-painted on the side of a van.

But he said he liked Satoshi Kon, who's one of the good ones! Obviously he's not prejudiced against an entire medium, despite saying almost exactly that in his article.

I agree about the Netflix stuff, with a proviso on Knights of Sidonia. If insipid romantic drama enrages you, I would avoid it, but if you can get past that you can watch goddamn awesome space battles.

How is Dragon's Crown anime, though? There's never been an animated series about it and the game developer has never even worked in the animation industry. Frankly, the bizarre sexual hang-ups are of an ilk with the video game industry's worst brodude tendencies.