Yeah, I felt the Stannis child-sacrificing incident was on par with Jaime raping Cersei and Littlefinger pawning off Sansa to be Ramsay's rape-toy in terms of the showrunners making non-GRRM narrative decisions that look like a big misfire. But I'm getting a lot of pushback on that one.

I figured this episode (or this season in general) was going to produce a lot of mixed opinions. And maybe you're right on both counts. What's bothered me in the last two seasons is that the showrunners seem to be throwing a lot of shit at the wall that's just felt really arbitrary, or has even done the narrative a…

Yeah, between the Sansa rape and the Shireen burning, I'm of the belief that the showrunners are just throwing disturbing shit out there without any respect for character development or narrative coherency.

Apparently the "Invisible Hand" really did a number on it.

I tried to fuck my neoliberal horse, but it told me that penetration was not incentivized under the current regime of market regulations.

;)

"Game of Stools" also sounds like the unofficial German porn parody.

In a way, that also makes it the best.

I thought that only worked on schoolgirls.

I think a lot of the skeeze factor does comes from that demeaning, orientalist fantasy that east Asian women are somehow inherently submissive or deferential. As another White Male™ who's dated Asian women, I'll add that that couldn't be farther from the truth, and if you pursue Chinese/Korean/Japanese/etc. women in…

To be fair, it's amazing that Al isn't a literal cadaver they move around the stage with industrial-strength marionette strings at this point.

I just want to point out that I genuinely love this handle/gimmick.

A friend of mine has a theory that part of the reason Joe Biden still tries pulling off stunts like that is because, in her words, he was "fuckin' handsome" when he was young and still hasn't fully grasped that he just comes off as a creepy old man at this point. (As opposed to, say, an overconfident pretty boy who…

Yeah, I've always heard good things about Duff McKagan. Apparently he's personable and down-to-earth, and doesn't suffer from a classic rock star case of Bloated Ego Syndrome.

Jesus this game is good. More than anything, I'm just really grateful this got made. I feel it's not hyperbole to say that they managed to replicate (for the most part) the narrative depth and world-scope of the classic Infinity Engine games. I know a lot of people had reservations about this once they sat down to…

If he just gets community service, will his time spent terrorizing Vanilla Ice count?

I love how this post is a genuinely, deeply sarcastic use of the phrase "Great Job, Internet!"

Yeah, I mean Kanye sounds ludicrous when he spouts off about how ingenious and genre-elevating he is. And then, well, he sometimes goes out and actually legitimizes that claim. And the results are damn good.

+1 for the Electric Six reference.

Women who smell like cigarette smoke. Not the physical act of smoking, just the smell of tobacco on their breath. Which is funny, because I’m kind of a health nut and find smoking unpleasant to be around under most circumstances. That one probably amuses me the most.