Republicans will protect your rights if you’re:

Mods don’t leave those trolls alone?

Hey, preachers leave our kid(makers) alone.

Some dark sarcasm in the chatroom.

“All and all, [we’re] just another brick in the wall”

we don’t need no education, we don’t need no birth control

I just couldn’t stay interested in The Affair. I found it was like watching paint dry. The character motivations remained deliberately vague as a story mechanism, but oy did the story suffer for it. I think I bailed by episode 3.

I’m about halfway through the first season, and I almost turned the first episode off before the POV switch (which I didn’t know was coming) because I was annoyed at the way the female characters were portrayed. As soon as I realized that it was just McNulty’s (I have a mental block on the name of the guy he’s…

Those same pro-gun idiots who are outraged when a cop is killed, but anyone else? “Ehh, stuff happens!” Fuckers.

I also liked how individual narratives stressed that person’s relative lack of agency: when he tells the story, she is much more forward than he is, and he is almost seduced. When she tells the story, it’s the reverse — it makes it seem like he wanted it more than her. I like this emphasis on the self-serving function…

Anybody seen this awesomeness going around?

Related- please do not help spread the rumor that he was targeting Christians. While he did ask his victims if they were Christians before killing them, he killed them no matter what their answer was.

I would like to make a comment on an issue that isn’t about this story, but it deeply injures my soul nonetheless.

Hah, really? Kingkiller standing the test of time better than Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones? It’s ok if you don’t like those series, but let’s not get ridiculous here.

You know, the book is beautifully written and the setting is really neat (not terribly original, but not everything has to break new ground), but God damn is Kvothe a frustrating protagonist to deal with. If this multimedia thing means we get to see more of the world and its people without having to hear about how…

Oh good, let’s get out the pump and inflate Rothfuss’ already insufferable ego more.

Sigh. I’m about 25% through the first book, and I’m finding it really, really hard to keep going. So far, it’s completely cliche D&D-inspired fantasy. The main character is a fucking insufferable Mary Sue. And there have been more instances of the word ‘whore’ than there have been actual speaking female characters…

I don’t want to speak for Andrew, but my guess is that he’s been doing his job for the past 5 years and he hasn’t blatantly lied to people about the status of his work. I could be wrong.

My interest in this series has severely waned over the long years of waiting between the books (remember in the author’s note in the first book he said that the whole book was pretty much done and had to be split into 3 parts b/c it was too big? That was a load of BS). And then to be burned by the useless short…

The government has nukes. How is a handgun going to help?