I forgot about the tuba guy. I loved that! 

Tuba players. Bring all the tuba players.

Isn’t it very possible that this is exactly what’s happening? Maybe the tanned white people being cast as brown people, but playing actual tanned white people.

Sounds to me like they knew she hated it, but she lauged it off to belong. Going back to my point: If you don’t want to get hit in the balls, don’t touch a woman in a way that she doesn’t like.

As a ball-haver, I’ll say this. Getting hit in the balls is awful. But if men are going to be bigger and stronger (generally, there are a lot of women that could kick my ass in a fair fight) then women absolutely should go after the balls when threatened. I taught my sister that, I taught my nieces that, and it’s the…

Maybe I’m from some fucked up tribe of men, but hits in the balls were always fair game. Grade school through highschool. If you weren’t on your guard that’s on you. And if you pulled some shit on someone, and they ballthwapped you, it was fair punishment and even funnier.

The treatment of women and minorities in fiction isn’t real. People react to it as if it is. This, specifically, is what is being criticized here, not art criticism. Complaining about what happens in a work of fiction isn’t art criticism, it’s entitled fandom bullshit.

The author, Karen Chance's CASSANDRA PALMER novels, magic can have a EMP like effect on science. Of course, in these novels, the wizards have car races on ley lines. She also mentions a vehicle, a litter or a boat, that had decorations that allowed its vampire owners to travel anywhere in the world via ley lines.

You are right, it is from Men in Black I.

Men in Black POS?

Valyria (that ancient civilization that seems to have gone up in flames that the Targaryens are from) have what one of the characters (won't say who because spoilers) calls "fused stone roads" - asphalt, to be specific - in the books.

Overlooking of course that the wall itself is impossible without magic.

He makes a good point. The rate of technological innovation really took off in the last 200 years. In 1800, most people were living in small cabins and riding around on horses and/or shitty carts. The industrial revolution that began in Britain really had all of the ingredients there. A high density population with…

I think really it comes down to no need for change. Why have a car if you can teleport somewhere? Why have lightbulbs if you have candles that burn forever? Most technology advances because it fills a need, in a world of magic there is no need.

Congratulations. You've successfully sussed out what separates a GRR Martin or a Rowling from a Niven, Clarke, Banks, Asimov, or Heinlein. The particular effect you're talking about in terms of the scale of their history (GoT's 12000 years) is an effect in fiction called 'technological stagnation'. At least Frank…

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