Tai Long's definitely a better villain, which is important for any martial arts story, but I found that the other aspects made up for it. Still, it's too bad that they couldn't top Tai Long's villainous introduction. He's in a cage that's form-fitted to his body, in a massive prison fortress that was built solely to…

With the bit about needing more particulars, I was thinking about the bigotry vs. supremacy issue, i.e. how this thinking would say that it's not the same thing for a white person in the US to hold racial prejudice as it is for someone of any other racial group to do the same thing. The particulars would be regarding…

I've started to see arguments that racism, as a term, has several aspects. Racial prejudice would be one part of it (the bigotry aspect, basically), but there would also be the aspect related to oppression and supremacy. This argument is generally part of an explanation of how racism per se in the US isn't something…

They still have that, but it doesn't allow for as much variance as I'd like. Basically, it seems like marking a question at the highest importance level will, at most, change match percentage by a few points. I'm suggesting that there are some questions that will be such dealbreakers for people that the standard…

I was trying to parse that and I thought that it might have been a case of both verbing and compression. Maybe it means something like "put you and your fans in an either/or situation in regard to me".

Hell, Gene Simmons is probably better at business and finances than Trump, when it comes down to it. I seriously do not get why Trump has a reputation for anything other than transparent mendacity.

Depends on the kind of punk one is. You can either be supportive and buy stuff to support your favourite bands or you can try to steal shit from them and wreck the toilets at their shows. Different strokes.

I've come to the belief that one of OKCupid's problems is that it weights its questions too evenly. The "do you prefer your own ethnicity one" sits cheek-by-jowl with "do you like documentaries" and your ability to weight them accordingly is limited . I'd like to see something like a "dealbreaker" option, where…

The walk cycle is pretty good! I want to see that in a game now.

Hello, Mistress, my old friend
I've come with dick in hand again
To have you agitate my plumbing
It's now my favourite way of cumming

(As ever, this got long.)

I can't really defend it. I liked it the one time that I saw it, but that was a long time ago. I also have terrible taste. I guess that I would stick up for the plot, though, which I thought was decently clever (again, at the time).

No Dogma?

This is the weirdest nostalgia.

Is that what it looks like when Satanists use Twitter?

I haven't finished That Hideous Strength yet either. Many interesting characteristics to it, but it's also a full blast of Lewis' distracting gender politics.

It is interesting how there's an almost internally-consistent alternate history that sort of emerged from pop culture over the decades, particularly in regard to adventure stories. Makes me wonder if Scrooge was always just on the other side of the hill from Tintin or something.

SPOILERS FOR A PRETTY OLD BOOK: when I mention Perelandra to people, I tend to focus on how Ransom ends up fighting and defeating him, as I thought it was actually a fairly original take on the concept. Quit arguing with Satan and punch him in the liver already!

It's the second part of a trilogy where the books are pretty short, so you might consider reading "Out of the Silent Planet" first. It's probably not necessary, but it will make more sense out of things.

More like an annotated companion piece, I'd expect. It'd be interesting to note where it stuck with history and where it diverged (aside from the obvious bits).