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Right. Everybody loves the Justice League cartoon. Everybody especially loves Superman's "world of cardboard" speech and his fight against Darkseid. IT'S THE SAME THING YOU GUYS.

Reaching the nadir in Avengers 2.

The question of whether it's even rape is central to the story.

a young Alicia Witt

Donald Trump really let us all down by not being named Roger Farnsworth or something.

I do not retool with my brain. He who retools with his brain has forgotten the demographics of his target audience.

Make Gilead Great Again

Science is eliminating jobs, not creating them. The issue is how we will divide the spoils of a post-human labor economy. Mad Max or Star Trek?

It's a fairly linear narrative (and that "fairly" is doing a lot of work), with the main plot being the theft and attempted recovery of the Silmarils, jewels which hold the last echo of the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. Lots of great, epic, extremely high mimetic stories of valor, sacrifice and woe.

Open for discussion: Ilium: filmable, or not?

I liked it a lot, but I'm a sucker for tales of human endurance, especially Arctic/Antarctic. The feats of will that these explorers performed are almost beyond comprehension.

I would support a presidential ticket of Tim Gunn and the academic advisor lady from Last Chance U.

Ok, Kazakhstani middleweight boxer Gennady Govolkin, That book was pretty weird.

M-O-O-N, that spell more baby boomer crap

WE SHIT IN THE SAME PIT

What is GGG

There's an incredible Ligotti story about a guy who goes to a small town to investigate one of their festivals and ends up getting discovered / involved / eaten by monsters.

Unfortunately it spawned a million lesser snark takes.

Juliette Lewis' rollerskating panties from Strange Days

This is the entire Baldur's Gate saga.