“The Blaine thing is very Spike gets chipped on Buffy. I hated it then and I hate it now.” 

What “guns” are there to stick to? They’re translating an arbitrary made up name for a product they’re trying to sell in a foreign market, they found out the name happened to match something potentially offensive in that market, so they changed it. There’s no deep principle to defend here. There’s no huge artistic…

The second, probably largest and most famous iteration of the KKK, what most people think of when they think of the KKK absolutely self identified as a protestant Christian organization, fundamentally anti-Semitic and anti-catholic and dedicated to upholding christian values. See also the intimidation tactic of…

There’s a difference between mere fiction (A tv show about me being a us Senator), and a show where the protagonist is a talking dog.

They’re taking a hopeless case off the air and replacing with a show that gets over a million more viewers that they may be able to salvage and make money on. That’s entirely sensible and rational.

The Ron Funches character was mostly a sweetheart, actually. I have no idea why they structured the show as “Team in opposition to annoying team leader Vanessa Hudgens....who are in turn all in opposition to annoying boss Alan Tudyk.”

That’s not entirely true. The network may have made certain performance commitments, and if the show isn’t meeting them, pulling it may be a way to salvage contract terms, especially if their internal analysis indicates the show is dragging down the shows around it. In this case it’s looking like they’re replacing…

What I’d like is a universe that feels more varied and lively, with more overarching narrative events. I don’t need to be the chosen one, but I want to feel like more than a Space Mailman.

I did that for a while. Traded, did combat, upgraded my ship, get better ships, etc. But I never felt like the game changed. The experience of being in a big ship vs being in a little ship, the experience of investing the time to make those improvements, didn’t feel like anything in the game really, aside from…

The point I’m more trying to make is, we get you like the game, that doesn’t make people who don’t idiots.

It’s not nonsense, it’s a difference of opinion. I happen to mostly agree with them. It’s possible to discover cool stuff in Elite Dangerous, but the time investment and effort/luck required isn’t worth it, to me, partly because the density of cool stuff to routine stuff feels pretty low. I can get about as much…

I’m not sure what this has to do with a discussion of wishing there were more Asian and Latino characters, particularly in lead roles.

I didn’t like the episode.

Ianto endangers everyone by behaving super stupidly, then spends most of the episode blubbering and making pathetic squinchy faces. There’s endless, and I mean _endless_ back and forth about the proper course of action when the proper course of action is incredibly obvious. The Cyberwoman costume is just…

There’s a great excuse: I don’t particularly like the game.

There’s a great excuse: I don’t particularly like the game.

The role varies from team to team, but mostly the things coaches in other sports do. Advise on strategy, organize practice sessions, handle team morale and personality clashes, and in some cases, decide on team lineups.

...is there a competitive esport that has meaningful educational value?

They brought up race because it was relevant to a discussion of who the actor playing the next Doctor might be. Race was not relevant, or mentioned in the criticism of Cyberwoman.

They didn’t bring up race (or gender) “out of the blue”. The whole spoiler that started the discussion was about the possibility the next Doctor might be a black woman, Michaela Coel. 

The problem with Cyberwoman wasn’t that there was a sexy cyborg in it (and I have no idea why you brought up her race). It was just a terrible, dumb episode.