I don’t think they are saying that the world was better in the 16th century. What they are saying is that the world was less interconnected and complicated back then. Because things are so interconnected, you can't even give a flower or buy a tomato without knocking over a huge number of dominoes. 

 It's not just gamers. People need to get their goods from SOMEWHERE, and well.. name me a corporation that ISN'T evil.

I build my Halloween playlist all year!

Another point is that in the book the zombie is in a shirt, tie, and slacks. He mentions trying to figure out who he was from the clothes he died in before giving up because what he died in is the most generic uniform of the working twentysomething imaginable.

 They seemed to be setting up Camilla to be the antagonist of Season 3 if it ever happens. 

The closest I’ve been able to think of is Major Mokoto.

How is this in the least bit surprising? So people want to take a picture dancing down the Joker stairs. People have been filming themselves running up the Rocky stairs in Philadelphia and striding across the Abbey Road crosswalk for decades.

 The problem I have with every Terminator movie after T2 is that T2's mantra was, "No fate but what we make." Yet, every entry in the franchise since has taken a very fatalistic tone. It has become a series of delaying actions to kick Judgement Day further and further down the timeline because the future keeps wanting…

 I think that is why the SCP Foundation is so popular. They shake up the standard formula for horror stories by dressing them up in coldly clinical language. 

 Remember folks, there is nowhere you can go to escape politics.  NO! WHERE!

People have been chanting “Free Tibet” for decades to absolutely no effect. “Free Hong Kong” is going to be the new “Free Tibet.” Unless you are prepared to go to WAR, militarily and/or economically, China does not give a fuck. So this whole thing is just people patting themselves on the back for how virtuous they…

 Any kitty who faces down a case of worms is a champion!

The coupon gag is EXACTLY the sort of thing The Joker would do, bot script or not.

 I don't remember Ed being sexualized on the show. Unless you have a specific fetish where a tank top automatically = sex.

 Are you also going to complain about the dinosaurs not having feathers?

 I didn't even read the article. I just read the headline and my head was filled with screaming. 

It’s gone mainstream.

 I'll be very disappointed if they don't show how to make Torbjorn's Molten Core.

 The Disenchanted version of Drow?