She lost me with the whole "It's not your world." Um, yes it is. JKR created this world. She can do with it what she likes. Bitch about it. Boycott it. Use it to educate. Whatever. But it's her story.

These creatures (apparently, as I’m far from an expert) draw power simply from the fear inspired by their existence, so even talking about them (with rational, intelligent people, anyway) makes them stronger.

The assumption is that the spiritual beliefs of Native Americans are somehow out of bounds when it comes to discussion, criticism, or creation of new stories.
Sorry, but that’s not the case. If I can make up stories about Christian legends, I can make up stories about Native legends. if they don’t like them, perhaps…

That doesn’t make you immune to criticism about your product/service.

As somebody who doesn’t live in the USA and is therefore not drowning in a morass of racial neuroses, I don’t find anything remotely offensive about Rowling’s description of Native American magic.

What part of “fictional history” did you not get? You know, I was willing o listen to the Native American complaints. I really was.

I would be happy to watch a video YOU made about this topic. But if I come to this website I shouldn’t have to watch some other fuckers video to get the information I clicked on the damn title to get.

are you crazy, that would involve effort and actual work.....
Aint nobody got time fo’ dat!

it’s screen rant, they’ll mostly be wrong. Don’t bother

Where do you think we are, io9?

Can someone post a text description of each plot hole?

In addition to this, there is a big movement entirely based on the “natural is good” logical fallacy (aka the appeal to nature fallacy). Anything less processed is “more natural”, and hence better. It’s a big driving force behind opposition to GMOs, organic foods, some anti-vaxxer movements, and many other trends that…

It’s part of the past fallacy. Look to the past far enough and you’ll find that a host of diseases and disorders “didn’t exist”. What these dunces fail to connect, however, is that this is almost always because the diseases were either unclassified or lumped in with some other known disease or just not tracked in a…

Logic doesn’t apply when you’re just itching for a way to be offended.

I know plenty of women who like this show

My #1 pet peeve is probably how evolution is discussed (at least a few scientists in this thread mention various problems on this front). Evolution is not intentional or “progressive.” Evolution does not act on individuals, it acts on populations. Evolution can’t “decide” anything, it is a phenomenon that occurs based…

these are great! Having played the board game Eldritch Horror, I decided to go and read Lovecraft’s collected short stories. After reading the first four or five, I’d like to think that I “got it.”

Some of them are definitely better than others, but he was never afraid to kill you with exposition. I guess that’s okay,…

Yes, he was training for a different fighter, in a title match at 155, not Diaz at 170. That’s a huge difference.

What the fuck are you talking about? You realize this wasn’t a title fight and he was 25 lbs out of his weight class? He’s been shit stomping his own weight class.

The level of idiocy in your comment is superior to Connor’s stand up game, well done.

I hate to be that guy, but is okay that we promote events and videos that in turn promote a country that still uses slavery? Some might call it indentured servitude because most traveled to the country voluntarily, then had their visas seized at the border. However that isn’t even strictly true as most were tricked…