Agreed. The lesson should have been "Girls are just people, if you can make friends with people, you'll be fine". Because once he just tried to be friendly, he made friends, which was all the reassurance he seemed to need. And yeah, the girls (well, maybe not log girl) were wrong to think that Dipper owed them more…

There's a castle in level 8 where a switch turns the whole place into coins. So you can collect lots of coins, then go through a door which takes you back to start, where you do it all over again. You can get a lot of lives before time runs out.

As someone who has never seen the show, someone please humor me; did they pick Red Hook because it's the subject of a viciously racist short story by Lovecraft? Was someone trying to make a cute literary reference?

When they established that a picture of an angel could become an angel, I knew the writers had erred badly.

Anders is a terrorist. That's more than "broken".

Though I remember one of the characters asking that he DID all day. He deadpan replied that he dances, choreographing complex maneuvers throughout his house. But the question is still valid; Anders has a job, though it likely pays poorly, Aveline has a job, Isabella and Varric have biz, what DOES he do all day? He…

I think it was supposed to be easy. The changeling says that two people dying in an escape attempt is less suspicious than both of them being shivved.

Or, Quor'toth IS 1960's New York.

And At Gen Con, you can probably play it on a board that is 10 ft x 10 ft, with yourself as your marker.

I had a card game book that called it "Egyptian War". But growing up in the Midwest, I learned it as Egyptian Rat Screw. There was also a Dilbert card game which was very much like Egyptian Rat Screw, except the distributions of the numbers was different.

There's a full-on Archer board game too, I played it at Origins. It was pretty good.

His dependence on them is because he has no social graces to speak of, and he needs to be friends with the politically powerful to make a difference. He needs Lacelles because (in the book) Lasellses is doing the lion's share of writing and editing his publications; Norrell being too much of a fussbudget to write with…

Norrell and Strange are gentry. Neither he nor Strange work, they live off the rents of their land, or interest of a big bank account. Strange makes 2000 a year, like a lot of Austen men (Willoughby before his marriage, Brandon, Bennett). Norrell clearly makes a lot more than that, more like Darcy, I imagine.

If you think about it, Stephen is black in Regency England. He knows very well how much worse off he could be if circumstances were a hair different, I think that would make him cautions about making waves. But in this case, I think he's concerned about drawing more people to the attention of the Gentleman.

Really? I like TV Arabella much more. She seems more like a partner to her husband than she does in the book, and she makes slightly better decisions. In the book, she does not tell her husband about Lady Pole's stories, in the show, she does. In the book, she's also worried about decorating the drawing room, and…

"I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."

And, it's 5 guineas, not 5 pounds. Henchard makes a bit of a joke of it later, giving his wife 5 pounds and 5 shillings.

There was Thomas Riker, transporter clone, who joined the Maquis and had a goatee on DS9.

She had a vampire going poof on her doorstep, right in front of her, plus I think her friends were there, supporting her story. And you don't tell your misbehaving child to never come back. You just don't play that card on your child.

Joyce's behavior at the end of season 2 might disqualify her. She told her daughter that if she left to avert the apocalypse, that she should NOT COME BACK.