Ben X

Option 3: a bit dull.

Two days later:

Seemed to me like Twig bowed out because he was offended by some words...

I'll write the nob jokes!

Wow, thanks vimes! Remember, anyone who gets it, dig into your Steam folders once you've finished BTDT to find the special features!

"D'oh!", actually...

I'm managing to keep Sean Bean's likeness out of my imagination, and I don't know who's playing any of the other characters, but Dinklage is firmly stuck in my head as Tyrion.

Well, all these WORDS are very interesting, but I found a loophole by referring to an earlier tweet of mine...

I can not overstate how much admiration I have for these books. I respect the TV series (it's mostly a good adaptation, the added, awful sex scenes aside), but it's simply texture to a very rich fruit. I think I read A Feast for Crows in two sittings. Yes, the prose can sometimes be clunky; yes, he takes his time fleshing-out certain characters, making them appear two-dimensional until the story allows him to show you more of them; and my goodness, yes, is it a daring, masterful work. The fact he never explains certain connections or themes to you until you re-read or read essays online is something I want to high-five him for. I've started on the first book and it's fantastic. I think I want to read all of them before I watch the tv series, though, which is quite an undertaking.

There's something funny about that clock...

Oh bollocks, this is very similar to an idea I had. You know that advert where an old Bruce Willis is inserted into Die Hard 3 and interacts with his young self? I thought it'd be great to actually write a short with that in mind and film the two halves of it ten years apart with the composition effects in mind, so it looks fantastic and actually works as a script. Maybe vary stuff as well as age, like weight, facial hair etc.

Edited that last bit out, eh?

No, not parody, I just found it an interesting mental process to be going through. This is a good answer, by the way - I didn't get round to going back and applying the rape culture concerns to the original tweet in my post. Although I think you've used straw-man incorrectly...

I should clarify: I am aware that would be an extreme stance to take. I haven't taken a position, I'm just musing on where the line should be drawn.

Hee hee!

I used the term pegging in my original post before editing! That's a shame about Savage. Maybe it got spammed or something? You should have written an amazing letter to his column and then put your request in a PS.

Yeah, he's got about five names over there. He's a troll extraordinaire, it's amazing!

Erm. I didn't say it was. I'm just asking questions here, and in fact in my very next question after that sentence I say that homophobia is more prevalent and violent. Do please try to read posts properly, Subbes, this isn't the Feminism thread, you know.

Yes, please don't start transporting the whole of the AGS "Adventure-related Talk & Chat" over here piece by piece. Not least because that would mean an "Icey's Games" thread. Reminded me more of Toonstruck, but yeah, it's a horribly cluttered version of that.

Depending on if you're a human or Big Dog.

IT IS WATCHMEN, NOT THE WATCHMEN.

I like how this can be read as a justification rather than a clarification.

Ha ha, I'm talking in general, but I don't currently do it because I'm in a monogamous relationship (although I'm also pro open relationships). Ah yes, I see you specified "with strangers" at some point, but my observations apply to that as well. Anyway, I'm not delving back into that entire strand of the debate, I rather just wanted to contrast with this kind of stuff: I basically just wanted to point out that not only shit people do it and it can be awesome.

I'm a bit late on this, but as the topic is extremely free-wheeling it should be okay: I'd just like to stand up and be counted as someone who has one night stands and NSA sex (by which I assume we mean fuck-buddies), motivated not by insecurity or social pressure but by the fact that it's enjoyable, and knows plenty of women who do too. If it's done in an honest, healthy and safe (as far as is reasonable) way, it can be an amazing, positive and wholesome experience, and I count some of my one night stands among my fondest memories.

Yeah, Berliners are pricks.