Yeah, I’ve been trying to dig into Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, and the only thing I can think about the writing is “God, Judith Butler only wishes she could write as turgidly as Campbell does”. I’ve never read Gibbon, but Campbell writes in exactly the way I imagine Gibbon expounding on about how the Roman…

You’re right, you’re right. Have to use a less racially-tinged analogy.

There was a fallow period in the late 80s, but then Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy came out in the early ‘90s was actually good. People went nuts for microscopically-detailed new Star Wars stories and the EU started expanding exponentially.

Chuck Sonnenburg of SFDebris once asked a guy who had done research at McMurdo Airbase in Antarctica what the worst part of being in Antarctica in winter time was. According to Chuck, the guy’s response was that it got so cold that he completely lost his testicles. As in, it got so cold, and his scrotum tightened so…

That’s a weird analogy. You were disadvantaged but still wanted an opportunity to compete. You’re holding it up as a parallel to people who want to enter competitions where they have a natural, physical, chemical and biological advantage. It doesn’t really work as a logical parallel. 

I’m no right-winger, but I think this is a much more complex issue than has been perpetuated. Conservatives aren’t the only ones protesting this issue, though their (underlying, prejudicial) reasoning is certainly unique.

Gotta say, when I recall coin-slot games, the one that invariably hoovered up dollars was the X-man game. That one was beatable, provided that four players were willing to work together and dump about $40-$50 worth of quarters into the machine. It required a significant financial investment because it took…

Dungeons & Dragons is a game that favors specialization, and the bard was meant to be a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. As a result, it was regularly mocked by serious players looking to play mechanically optimized characters. That weakness is a running gag in Rich Burlew’s web comic The Order Of The Stick,…

Any person who starts in with “Oh, there once was a hero named Ragnar the Red . . .” gets an obligatory “Boo this man!” .gif.

Eh, wild medical anachronisms is pretty much part and parcel of the Witcher franchise. Without spoiling the details of Wild Hunt, there’s a pretty vital subplot in that game that depends upon both Geralt and the other party having a conversational knowledge of biological weapons, the germ theory of disease, and…

Biden getting the nom virtually guarantees a second Trump term. He hasn’t lost enough of his base, and Biden isn’t going to drive up Dem turnout.

Eh....I just don’t have much of a problem when it comes to things like “stuff happened off screen” when so much time has passed. There wasn’t any real convenient time to have her reveal this info in the past two movies.

Edit: Double post. Sorry about that.

Hmm. Well, okay. If thematic richness is your goal, then I cannot stress or recommend The Good Place enough. I would honestly call it the best-written show on television today.

I’ve frequently said that I’m a raging communist by today’s standards mainly because I subscribe to the radical socialist principles of *checks notes* Dwight D. Eisenhower.

I have the good fortune, if one can call it that, that my own Silent-Generation dad died before Fox News came about and started warping the Republicans into their present mode. While he was a lifelong Republican, the event that most shaped his worldview was the Cuban Missile Crisis. And the lesson he took from the…

Woman Who Lives And Dies By Branding Says Current Branding Might Kill Her

Seriously, in all of Ennio Morricone’s work, it may be the finest, because it blends so seamlessly into the movie. It never calls attention to itself, but it just reinforces this subtle sense of “. . . Something’s not right here. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

Welp, I for one would just like to thank “Kellyanne Conway’s Jingling Car Keys Trick” for keeping us out of the war as long as you did. I don’t necessarily have much positive to say about Kellyanne Conway, but I do have good things to say about you. I realize you did your best, and I realize the onus was on us for not…

Well, now that you mention it, sources have been saying that Paltrow’s been asking a lot of her associates who this “Taylor Durden” person is. . .