“True" Star Wars fans are impossible to please children who hate the franchise because they're not 8 anymore and don't realise they'll never get that back. Trying to please the least important demographic who, historically, can't be pleased, is a loser's game anyway.

The Doctor Who vibes in the first episode were so strong, it was as if someone at the BBC decided to spend a (slightly larger) amount of cash

Is it even B5 if you don’t have to make allowances for extremely limited budgets?

Linda, thank you for this thoughtful and thorough review; some of the best writing on the site lately. 

Your friend is either not very good at analogies or misunderstands what most of these people are buying. I can photograph your Porsche and drive off in the photographed replica (because the right clicked copy has the exact same functionality as the copy he owns). Moreover unless there’s an assignation of IP rights in…

I <3 M.O.D.O.K. in any context, but I feel like this gives Doom short shrift. As the Ur-Supervillain, Doom works in literally any context, including comedy (see the LEGO Marvel Superheroes game).

She ALSO we’re about to die in a nuclear holocaust any day now and that NBC was going to spirit her away to a black site for nefarious reasons and that she’d been blackballed by all the major news outlets for being TOO CLOSE to the truth.

Congratulations on independently discovering the exact same argument deployed against minorities and other poor folks by the people you’re decrying.

Don’t get loaded. Don’t die. You’re not worthless. Maybe you’ll find something to live for tomorrow.

As I understand it, the various tribes showed up because, essentially, they wanted to be Romans, or at least trade military service for land, and the Romans were generally happy to pick up a bunch of extra bodies for the endless civil wars that wrecked the empire.

I guess you’ve never actually been to io9?

somebody’s jealous that he doesn’t look as good in an armored speedo

DHX’s lawyers are considering suing because they’re lawyers and that’s their job. It’s right there in your third para in that big grey quoted section. (Edited to remove unnecessary shitheadedness on my part.)

NV DLC is pretty much your case in point: Old World Blues? Amazeballs. Lonesome Road? Ehhhhhhh. It's fine to not be able to stick the landing (works out great for Stephen King!), but if a decent resolution is important to you then maybe don't get your hopes up.

It's just a folksy americanism meaning "a bunch of" or some other arcane cooking conversion.

More to the point, it's a terrible waste of beer. Even terrible piss beer deserves a better fate than watefalling down the chest of some college bro.

This is beautiful.

But St. Pierre & Miquelon is France.

I'll take a genuinely contrite pizza over one with a crust stuffed full of "sorry if I offended anybody"s.

Tim's is likely to be the real winner here, if BK can give them the foothold in the States that they've been craving. I mean, fuck, the reason they were spun out of Wendy's after that takeover was that Tim's was too profitable to stay chained up.