It’s a genetic condition, she’s in fact the biological daughter of Swamp Thing and Daddy Mac from 90s kid rap duo Kriss Kross.

I’m just poking fun at my country for taking the event way too seriously. The two months of Mello season are already unlivable back home.

Clearly the selection process used to determine the Swedish entry is insufficiently complex to capture the nuance required for the Eurovision. Broadcasting 4 regional competitions, a semi-final and ending with a final viewed by 40%-50% of the population over the course of two months is just not enough: we must go…

I read and liked the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms but remember finding first couple of chapters of the Broken Kingdoms unreadable to the point where I just gave up back in 2011. Is it worth sticking with Jemisin?

It’s not exactly the thrust of the article but I was surprised by that list too. I like the aforementioned authors and they’ve written some of the best work in the genre of the last decade, but if I were to list living science fiction authors with “godlike” status I’d like ones to have proven to have more lasting…

Indeed, it’s a disturbing trend popularized by young, modern authors like Shakespeare and Goethe.

I was going to say, surely this indicates that the next Bond movie will be about a vest-wearing sci-fi punching machine, and will be set to a kicking rad Iku Mizutani chiptune soundtrack.

Þ and þ (the letter thorn) is indeed pronounced like an unvoiced th-sound, like in “thought” or, indeed, “thorn”. Ð and ð (the letter eth) is a voiced th-sound, like in “the” or “either”.

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Given that the actor is apparently Sergio Osuna who, to my knowledge, is not normally Gary. I’m going with new guy playing Dali, rather than new guy playing Gary playing Dali.

Most likely because they’re always working on it. And Warcraft 4, and Starcraft 3. They’re a very large game company focused on a small number of serial titles. It’s a safe bet that work on the next game in a series has been ongoing on some level since before the release of last one. Most ideas and proposals involved…

The treatment of trolls in the movie is a pretty on the nose allegory for Sweden’s eugenics and sterilization programs. We allowed the sterilization without consent of women deemed physically or mentally unfit to raise children - which in practice tended to mean women from the Sami minority - from the 30s until 1976.…

So... once upon a time in China this fearless Tai Chi master said “yuck!” to the high risk Matrix sequels?

The author has patched the game to change how the achievement was awarded multiple times. It was given out randomly on quicksave and quickload for a while.

Tragedy is crying in the corner, pining away.

I think they made English language versions of both their 3rd and 4th albums, Isola and Hagnesta Hill, with singles and all. The label was expecting smash hits - I wasn’t kidding when I said Kent were easily the biggest band in the country for two decades - but unfortunately Jocke Berg isn’t a very good singer or…

This doesn’t really have anything to do with the topic at hand but as a Certified Swede I am going to take this opportunity to recommend some more but mostly less popular music in Swedish that aren’t that one recording of 15th century folk song Jag Vet En Dejlig Rosa that Robyn made on Body Talk. Possibly someone…

I thought “U July 22” was legitimately good and dodged most of the landmines. It didn’t claim or try to show what really happened and it didn’t really give a shit about what Breivik thought and why he murdered children. It was very strongly focused on trying to make you feel what the victims felt on the island, which…

One of the reasons Sanderson was a pretty good choice to finish Jordan’s series is because they’re both pretty prudish types who avoid ambiguous antiheroes and are more focused on building complex and unique worlds than anything else.

In addition to the game still being relatively playable with the built in warnings, which have honestly come a decent way since they were text-only emotes, there are also other boss mods. Notably BigWigs which has had equal functionality since 2007 (it’s generally been better, in my personal view, but the difference…