WHAT. I am so baffled by your whole comment.

Awww, I went to a Frozen singalong show on Monday too and nobody sang along :( To be fair, the cinema was pretty empty (and my local cinema is tiny anyway) so maybe everyone was too embarrassed about being the only one; there was only a little clapping during the songs. I feel like I missed out. (I for one am a…

If I chose to wear that sort of thing for Halloween, perhaps it would be funny. But I would find it demeaning to have to wear that sort of clothing (anything revealing/ridiculous/childish/impractical) for my job. Also demeaning would be: having to constantly look and act like a child (cutesy clothes, cutesy poses,…

Those dresses though... good god. I hope they're getting paid a lot. It seems to me like a lot of women in the J-pop industry have to put up with a ton of demeaning shit.

I've played two weekends of the ESO beta, both times I did everything solo; like you I prefer to play alone. You most definitely can play solo the whole time (ignoring any group or PVP content, which there didn't seem to be much of anyway - I never got a quest I had to be in a group for, I only heard there were group…

I always figured it was because Top Gear has higher production values and is more accessible both in terms of content (has a lot of stunts, celebrity guests, etc.) and channel/time slot (until several years ago my household couldn't even get Channel 5 on terrestrial, BBC1 and 2 have always been way more popular, and…

I feel that Would I Lie to You is currently the best in terms of diversity out of the current crop of panel shows (it's also the one I enjoy the most right now); there's usually a woman or two on the panel and they always seem to get a decent amount of screen time and aren't unfairly treated, whereas shows like Mock…

It was back last week, in the UK at least. Episode 2 was yesterday. I tried to watch it this morning but I couldn't get BBC iPlayer to work >:( I was grumpy all morning without my TG fix.

Fifth Gear, Top Gear's rival, has (had?) a female presenter; I think there were 3 presenters. She also really seemed to know her stuff and had good chemistry with the cast. (That said, I have never watched much Fifth Gear, nor do I know much about cars.)

I second Peep Show and The Thick of It (it's hilarious, but I'm always a bit reluctant to recommend it to non-Brits, since it's about the UK government and has so many British cultural references, I worry it might be a bit impenetrable for American viewers.) I disliked Fresh Meat but that might be due to my negative…

To be honest that looks like an enormous turd to me and I feel kind of nauseated looking at this image. Ugh.

David Gaider, lead writer of Dragon Age, recently answered a question about his thoughts on polyamory in gaming on his Tumblr. He basically says that it would be very complex and difficult to make it work in a game where romance is just side content. His whole Tumblr is pretty interesting for answering various…

I'm playing ME3 currently so that came to mind straight away too. (That, or Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.)

While I didn't really care much about the story of FFXII (no idea why), I really agree about the battle system. Sometimes I would just go out and grind enemies for like two hours straight while trying out different gambits and stuff for no other reason than because it was fun.

I'm a frequent face in a certain chat room for a certain online game. For several months there was a guy there, and though I had some friendly debates with him about certain things (he had a tendency to make outlandish, untrue claims without backing them up, likes conspiracy theories, etc.), he was always civil about…

Oh, I don't really mind that he left Downton (I also won't dispute that Fellowes is a bit of an asshole), more that he kind of shuts down the conversation when anyone brings up Downton to him. He doesn't really explain why that is (at least not that I'm aware) so I feel it comes off as somewhat alienating to the many…

LOOK AT COUSIN MATTHEW. He has changed so much (and no longer responds to Cousin Matthew :( )

I know quite a few people, including both my brothers, who started smoking due to peer pressure when they were young (13, 14ish) or started smoking socially on occasion and then became addicted. Starting is pretty easy because we all have these cognitive biases about the risks. I knew a smoker at school (if I remember…

Looks like IMDB is right about the extra episodes. I don't know PBS's policy in streaming on their site, but maybe they only make episodes that they've recently rebroadcast available on their site, and they did a rerun of season 3 but couldn't fit episode 8 and the Christmas Special into their schedule before Series 4…

I don't even really like eggs (I know, I know, I'm a terrible person); my family did keep chickens for a time, but since I never ate their eggs except in cakes or cookies, I can't recall ever noticing a difference in taste. I only noticed the shells seemed thicker and they often looked very different to store-bought…