Maybe I missed it, but I don’t remember it being introduced as a book he had transcribed when Gilly was telling him about it, just a book he’d gotten for her to help her learn to read. It would have made that conversation make WAY more sense (particularly his annoyed reaction). Maybe they set it up in an earlier…

Viserys was Rhaegar’s younger brother, not his son. Definite family resemblance, but that seemed like mostly just the hairstyle; Rhaegar looked much bigger.

I think the implication is supposed to be that The Mountain was waiting for her to signal him again, and read her body language? Whatever the justification for that, it was super weird.

In the end though, I’m just glad Jaimie is finally quit of her. That relationship had gotten tiresome.

Back when my friends and I did co-op races my partner and me both got really good at that part in particular, to the point where I’d knock us sideways onto it and he could resist the urge to flinch and fall off. It was a blast.

Double Dash was so good. I always loved Mushroom bridge; the boost strips up the precariously narrow supports were so satisfying to thread.

No, a gun loaded with blanks is a gun. The law in most states does not draw a distinction between the two. They’re also in no way safe; a lot more people have been killed by guns loaded with blanks than just Brandon Lee. Firing a gun loaded with blanks is going to be treated by the law in the same way as firing a…

A gun loaded with blanks is still considered a deadly weapon by the law in most jurisdictions. Even an unloaded gun is considered a deadly weapon in many. Firing it at people is still in all likelihood assault with a deadly weapon or attempted homicide.

Based on context, Cards Against Humanity. It’s Apples to Apples, but with raunchier cards.

I mean, I guess some people might wonder that, but they sound like they haven’t taken even a cursory glance at the ones that have come out. It’s like “why video game movies don’t do well in Hollywood”: because they’re generally terrible movies with an IP and some iconic elements mashed in.

* The Dragonball Evolution Way - Where instead of doing your best to adapt the story as originally created, you choose to only take bits that you personally think were cool. Then you create your own story very-loosely based on the original, with enough of those “cool bits” to make it seem like it’s the same story when…

I think it’s absolutely true of the old school “The Great Detective” style characters. Having an unusual name marks them as extraordinary in the story, and plays into the narrative device when they’re introduced to strangers.

Goldstein Johnson sounds like a great dystopian detective name.

I mean, that’s basically why “All Lives Matter” is a thing.

Nemesis also had its own share of budget problems. The finale was supposed to be a big fleet battle between the Federation and the Romulans, but ended up being sort of a rehash of the finales of STII and STVI.

Other than the fact that running around as a vigilante beating people up is 1000% grounds for disbarment? He’s worried about what the powerful criminal syndicates he’s opposing would do to Karen and Foggy and anyone else close to him; i.e. the traditional superhero reason for a secret identity.

I’ve heard some unkind things said about Imperial Assault’s Descent-derived mechanics; given that Descent can be super unbalanced, I’m a bit wary of IA.

Same thing for io9. (rip) I kinda think they should just randomly redirect other Kinja articles to The Root, and see if people notice. (Comment privileges turned off though.)

I don’t think Gendry is safe by any means. A Baratheon heir kicking around complicates the succession plot in ways that I’m not sure fit with the direction they seem to be going. If anything, I think him tagging along on that mission is almost certainly a way to finally kill him off and resolve that dangling plot…

I feel like that level of gore would probably cause even Netflix to balk though. So far nothing in the shows has been that gruesome; it’d be hard to portray without actually seeing it, unlike Fisk’s rampage with the car door, where we mostly just saw blood spatters.