Bless your heart.

Wait, though; is that the actual doll? Or a model dressed as one? Because that’s some seriously Uncanny Valley stuff going on.

Infinite Jest is technically speculative fiction, but the book has nothing is common with genre literature, or almost any other book for that matter. If our hypothetical friend is into extremely elaborate, half-wacky half-highly technical, bleak as shit fiction, and if they can get through basically 1500 pages of…

Simulation complete. Save or delete universe?

You know why

They started to charge for oxygen.

"Run! Carmen San Diego found US!"

"Neat!"

Google had learned everything...except mercy

Well, actually, yeah. People tend to respond more emotionally to the deaths of animals or children in media than they do to minor characters, especially characters like Hand, who was pretty unlikable, and some red shirts.

FUCK THE DOG! LOOK INTO THESE PUPPY DOG EYES!

Ummm...what about Robin?

I agree that the system is broken, but these are design patents not utility patents. They are not patenting the idea of zippered back pockets, but the specific appearance of their particular implementation.

It's not a generic tank top, though, it's a specific design. While I certainly think that Hanes has a right to challenge the patent, I can't blame Lulelemon for acting to protect designs they see as proprietary. It's called protecting your business, and it's smart.

Poor ol' Rusty Venture

Right, I had my dinner and came back to finish a much more respectful and interesting discussion with someone else on a related topic to find this:

What purpose do your descriptions serve. Will it influence the way that charters interact with their environment? Does it shed insight on a characters personality? Foreshadow some future activity? Ultimately, is it necessary? If it isn't, then you should probably think about killing it, or paring it down.