There's something to that. It's definitely one of those big and bright progressions that guitarists tend to fall back upon. Writing on another instrument might spark up some new ideas; even people who don't really play piano very well tend to write on it because it's just so easy to pick out little melodies.

I don't know what his finances are like, but my personal experience leads me to believe that people who aren't independently rich pretty much never get the time that they actually need after a tragedy. If you work for a living, you're back on whatever the line is for you as soon as possible, because sympathy is cheap…

Joke acknowledged. That said, anyone who's reading an old thread, please note the bottom edge of the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Bear in mind that if you're talking about Star Trek in its entirety (i.e. all TV shows and movies without even touching tie-in novels or whatever), you're talking about something that is way, way more in general than a lot of things. That encompasses hundreds of hours of TV and probably over 20 hours of movies. Even…

Oh yeah, foot bras!

Ohh, you mean breast panties?

Ass bustiers = hot pants?

Well, I don't think it was the beta. Didn't they release the Player's Handbook, or part of it, online as a free PDF to entice people? I remember an article here about that, which is how I knew in the first place.

You know, I started out being pretty down on 4th ed., as it seemed like an attempt to play to many of the things I hated about the D&D community. As I started to play it with some friends, though, I realized that it was just a couple of house rules away from a pretty good time. I basically really liked about 50% of…

Ha ha, that's actually hilarious. Some developer had a vegetarian over for dinner once and now it's time for you to hear about it!

I wonder if the first Zelda game was one of the few that didn't need to establish Link in his world. I always sort of presumed that the game world wasn't in a populated part of the world; rather, he was out on a frontier, where you trip over a few loners here and there rather than whole villages. (I assume that the…

Anti-banjite!

I mostly just know The '59 Sound, which I greatly enjoy. On that album, though, there's this chord progression which shows up on almost every song that I can recall. It's the entire progression for "Old White Lincoln", it's the chorus for "Great Expectations" and "High and Lonesome", it's the bridges on "The '59…

If I recall correctly, there's a widespread theory that an undiscovered document, named Q for these purposes, acted as an additional source for the later gospels.

The best part about the first one (the only one I [partially] read) was the sheer amount of time given over to the main characters just watching the news. Chapter after chapter of exposition achieved by people watching the news. I don't think anybody actually does anything for, like, half of that book's length.

I didn't think of it as unusual or weird until I started noticing, as a kid, that people almost never got it right the first time. If they were reading it, they'd go for a sort of kaa-lib; if they were writing it down from hearing it said, they'd go for a K at the beginning more often than you'd think (the champion…

Not quite Southern Ontario, but: Black Creek Irish Potato Stout. It's definitely one of my favourite stouts and one of my favourite beers in general. I'm generally very fond of Great Lakes Brewery's seasonal beers, too.

Yeah. As I said in another comment, I don't think that Rey is a Mary Sue, just sort of adjacent to the concept. My point was more about the trope in and of itself.

Go back to the fiction of one of those eras and note how often said suits and hats are described as "cheap" or "shabby". Even in the days when people knew their own hat size and a pocket-square was a dead-common item, some were complaining about everybody else being such shoddy dressers.

Yes, and I'm not really disputing any of that. My point was that I think that the power fantasy aspect of the character, while not making her a Mary Sue, is what people are latching onto when they say that. All of the other characters you mentioned are male (and two were from before people really latched onto the…