They seem to have been reasonably diverse about their jungle book castings. Read more

They seem to have been reasonably diverse about their jungle book castings. Read more
Being the best in a shitty product category isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement - though it’d be interesting to see what happens by generation 3. Read more
Just one nitpick in your otherwise good analysis (that the properties of VS are inherent to the metal in some way rather than strictly emergent from the forging process) - I think dragon glass is obsidian. Read more
D&D would be great, all you'd have to do is buy a bunch of ladders and then sell them as 10' poles and get all the money! Read more
On the other hand all those industrial spills and chemical accidents will just give you super powers instead of cancer. Read more
"Oh hi witch, this is my machine gun..."
And now you're king. Read more
Also, Wizarding in Tolkien is not very exciting from a sword & sorcery persepective. Sure you can light a couple of pine cones on fire and be friends with giant eagles, but give Gondor like two fifth-level mages and that orc horde is gone. Read more
"Why is he not a HP fan? Why god, why????"
More like, why is he your fiance? Also if your last name is already Gryffyn, Raven, Claw or Huffle (possible less so with Puff) I think you're sitting pretty. Read more
Something is only "political" if I disagree with it. Read more
With the same people IRRC Read more
I think the key phrase here might be "a long time ago" I mean, I like a lot of Star Wars novels when I was a kid but I can picture reading them now and feeling super embarrassed. Read more
I feel the most charitable view would be to say that they don't recognize the "golden age" as political because it already lines up with their beliefs and assumptions, and ideology seems especially glaring when you're confronted with something you disagree with. Like in my head the fundamental premise of speculative… Read more
What does popularity have to do with awards that are supposed to be about "the best" unless it's a stalking horse to retroactively hand all the awards over the the Twilight franchise. Read more
Also ten years ago there were like two states that allowed same sex marriage - now that number has risen exponentially and a state was threatened with being financially strangled for passing a super-bigoted law. Bigots are just getting louder because they're losing and they know it. Read more
Also ten years ago there were like two states that allowed same sex marriage - now that number has risen exponentially and a state was threatened with being financially strangled for passing a super-bigoted law. Read more

Just start your own awards, with blackjack and hookers.
Anytime I enter an establishment where they allow smoking it really just blows my mind. Like a few years ago I went down to Foxwoods (I'm not a big gambler, I don't find it all that fun) and so manyo f the little casino areas were just so grody, dark and just filled with stale cigarette smells. Read more
I was going to say, the people I know with the least respect for the 'military' (as in the overall structure and organization, rather than the people in it) are all the people that were in the military. Read more
Oh, you are not alone - it's kind of a hate watch sometimes on Sunday mornings when I'm feeling really grumpy. And it really comes across as a pay for play kind of operation with those guys as the sleazy ringmasters. Read more
Just as long as there's less sexual harassment at Antonio's i'll be okay. Read more