He is a Roman history buff, he should know better than to chain himself to an empire in freefall.

You’re probably aware, but Enterprise already explained that.

I was a bit worried when it breezed through the first half of the book, but it more than made up for it adapting the second half. Despite knowing where the story was headed I got emotional towards the end.

Strong principal Skinners energy. “Does nobody want my AI slop filter? No, it’s the gamers who are wrong.”

How is this surprising from President Grab-Em-By-The-Pussy?

Boll movies are glorious in their awfulness, Doom was mostly just boring and uninspired (despite a great cast on paper).

And this, children, is why you don’t vote an ultra-conservative Blackrock millionaire with no political leading experience into the position of head of state.

Forgot? He was never not filthy rich.

They hide from the media spotlight by increasingly being the media spotlight.

Narcissists don’t forgive. Ever. He is a textbook example.

Merz is a former Black Rock manager (a job that made him a millionaire) and currently is gutting as much climate and social policy as he can get away with. He would love to be the German Trump.

Also a fine distraction from the fact he raped kids.

Also getting his Nobel peace prize aaaany minute now.

Goblins also appear in Lotr, the orcs in Moria are goblin orcs. I think the difference is goblin orcs live belowground and mordor orcs above. Uruk-Hai are a new breed by Saruman, combining orcs with the wild men of Rohan through dark sorcery.

Instead of making Russia better, Putin is hellbent on making the rest of the world as horrible and miserable as Russia.

Funny, that’s almost exactly the plot of Daniel Suarez’ technothriller Daemon (an AI using human agents).

Those places have to be aware that their names will one day have the same ring to them as “Auschwitz” and “Buchenwald” have to us now.

The bilionaires are naming their tech after evil stuff from fantasy and sci-fi purposefully. They want the torment nexus.

Right? Looks like the Inception meme.

Batboy had it coming with the way he trashed Babbadoon. And I also think his contribution to Mog-Mash is overrated.