Recent content by The Great Sage

I'm hearing some support for gun control. In Canada, we have a system that is very close to what GojiBean and Cosmo are describing. It's called the Canadian Gun Registry, and it is a government-run program that keeps track of who owns what gun and issues exams and licenses to citizens to...

Never really been a fan of Jane Austen. I've read P&P and Northanger Abbey and really there's only so much Victorian-era debutante drama I can stand. When read with respect to its publication date, the novels are quite progressive I guess, but today they seem very dated.

Ammoharmlissicus!

Absolutely. The divide between sci-fi and fantasy magic is pretty blurry. Trilithium from Star Trek might as well be unicorn hair from Harry Potter. edit: That actually reminds me of in Next Generation at least, and maybe TOS as well the doctor always asks for 'tricordrazine' for everything...

How about this then - any wizard that is on a black ops 'hit list' is probably going to know it, yeah? Like, SEAL Team Six isn't going after 12 year old Ginny Weasley, right? In that case, this powerful marked-for-death wizard is going to prepare for the eventual assault. Only unlike drug...

There are like a million ways to answer this, and the most obvious one is that Harry Potter is a fairy tale and guns don't fit thematically into the narrative. Saying that seems a little dour though, so in the spirit of your question I'll try to answer in a more creative way. First - why...

Had to look that one up. Very pretty.

The final battle in a genocide run of Undertale is a son of a bitch.

This exact type of cacti goes wild where I live. I've heard it called 'prickly pear' and 'devil's tongue', which I think is the cooler name.

I think it was called The Oddballs... it was about a poor family that lived in a slum into which all the sludge and pollution from the rich part of town flowed. Because of this all the poor people had genetic deformities.

Cook him something nice! The best thing you can ever do for anyone is feed them.

Sex shops. The only place in my town that sells zippo flints and pipe cleaners is the porn store, and even thought I'm an adult, it's still awkward. The guy that owns the place is so well spoken that I believe he must be a reincarnated British aristocrat.

My puppy woke up up by sneezing in my face. It's always a trip to think about all the things my dogs can do that I'll laugh it off where if a human tried to do the same, I'd want to have a fist fight with them. Furry little angels.

I'm not so sure about it always being about an underlying mental illness. I'm also not so sure that violent media or media glorifying an antihero or villain isn't responsible for some of those mental illnesses. I'm not sure what sort of effects desensitization to violence has on people over a...

One can argue very easily that mythology and religion have been the greatest creative work of mankind, and look how that turned out.