There is footage of a pack of lionnesses taking down an adult elephant. Quite impressive actually...

"Roger Ebert loved movies" is actually his epitaph - so, bad analogy (it's Slashdot, stick with cars)...

Maybe the best part of the show is how it treats the behaviour of scientists in public conferences, with both absurdity and keen observation of actual behavior, however ludicrous be this behaviour.

Are you responsible for this part of the show?


By the way, is there a way to watch the show without the awful canned laughter which ruins the subtlest jokes?

I watched only the first season because I can't stand canned laughters, but some of the humor is very subtle.
That's why canned laughters are particularly awful in this show, only the most obvious jokes get in-tape laughter, and as humans are social creatures it makes a perturbing discrepancy between what one finds really funny and what the laughters tell him to find funny.

Actually, some are very clever and thus quite different from "Ow my balls":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4ZbIKmuvo (cited below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (works better if you know Girl Genius, a very good webcomic actually)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k3PJb4Cc7I
And of course this one: http://www.satirishpress.com/w...

Or make "get out of my lawn" scenarios where new players go in numbers against more skilled players (who will then be "Bosses" requiring cooperative efforts to take down)...

Nobody mentioned StarCraft?

I happened to watch one of her videos last week, and I do share the opinion of the first +5 poster: "her videos are, in places, poorly researched with many leaps of logic mixed with heavy opinions. But, they still contain very valid points and can be civilly debated."

Specifically, and though she clearly does make some points about the way most female NPC are limited to eye candy, her general attitude towards sandbox games reminded me heavily of the Dungeon&Dragons-bashing of the early 80's: "Can you imagine that? In this foul game players can invoke demons! What would be a better proof that it's a satanic plot to enroll our younglings in the Army of Darkness?" without, of course, ever explaining to the alarmed parents that a RPG allows player to do anything they can think of, and that if they don't have a particular interest in the evocation of demons there is no reason for them to do it (BTW at least in AD&D first edition I don' think there even is a rule about demonic invocations)...

In Sarkeesian's videos, it translates as "Female NPC have no agency": Well, they're NPCs - maybe she should figure what the word means. And yes, female NPC are often not treated in the same way than male NPC and when she explains that she has valid points - but it's maybe 10% of her discourse, 90% being "women are NPCs in video games, oh the humanity!".
She even goes as far as saying that no woman NPC is depicted having her own agenda and personality - hellooo, ever heard of Sarah Kerrigan? I'm still in love with her as are probably half of all male geeks ever born, and we have only seen her face!
Similarly, one of her points is that in Sandbox games the hero is allowed to kill female NPCs: does she even understand the concept of a sandbox game?
Or when RedDeadRedemption makes fun of the Pulp trope of rescuing a lady bound on the railway, she uses it as a proof of how vilely misogynistic the game world is, without even acknowledging the parodic intention.

Actually... no.
Data caps on wired internet mostly exists in "capitalist" america, where the market is so free that it doesn't mind belonging to an oligopoly.
The rest of the world has competition, and usually no data caps (except on mobile services usually, which sucks too).

Phil and Kaja Foglio made their own report of the Hugo Awards: http://www.girlgeniusonline.co...
They take good note of the award for Time, by the way.

I think that Harper's made a big national survey in 2005(?) about the actual beliefs of american people who profess to be Christians (more than 50% of whose thought that Joan of Ark was Noah's wife, per example).
Long story short, the vast majority of American christians believe and worship the God who elected America as the Chosen People. You may be knowledgeable enough to understand that it's not exactly the Gospel one...

By the way, does anybody know how to use QQ/WeiXin on Linux?

I'd be happy to skip teasers, flashbacks, repetitions and idents; but to keep history lessons and fun facts (I don't remember seeing cartoons nor what is "we"re experts")...
Why did they cut these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Indeed? Really?
Please please please, pretty please with sugar on top, could you let them do it?
Accepting the UK was the worst mistake than EU ever made...