Recent content by dante brevity

Wow. Feels like 2014 again. Welcome back.

When I heard that this was going to be an origin story that involved Dracula fighting the Turks, it reminded me of The Historian. You all should go read The Historian.

Bob misspelled Erudite. Euridites sounds like a Greek playwright.

"incredibly unbelievable" - Jim This is a repeating redundancy.

I can understand a few of these, but some seem completely insane hang-ups. #44, what else are you supposed to call an annual or semi-annual collection of episodes in a television series? Just to lob a little linguistic snobbery right back, let me demonstrate the proper use of the word "lift"...

I want all further scientific research done in this country to be underwritten by snack foods. "The cure for cancer, brought to you by Funyuns."

How sad for you. You missed quite a good film because of your inflexibility. I hope you never torture yourself with other works that have adapted source material, i.e. most of Western literature.

In the X-men franchise, there's a recurrent theme of the mutant struggle as a metaphor for race relations. It would be a waste of a '60s X-men movie not to use the civil rights movement as a backdrop. Mutant march on Washington?

"It's not addictive, like real drugs. There's a difference." What's the difference? You ingest a substance that's unnecessary to sustain life. It's been shown to cause physical withdrawal symptoms in the body when removed. It's been shown to activate the same opiate receptors in the brain as...

I didn't miss the posts; they're just wrong. Fat, sugar, salt and caffeine, all of which are excessively present in a fast food meal, all share addictive properties with other "drugs" like "crack, tobacco or alcohol." I understand the argument that some things are not inherently addictive, and...

Happily. Fast food increases risk of obesity and type-II diabetes. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(04)17663-0/fulltext http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/3/505 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829208000981...

I'll find them for you if you want, but a Google search will help you find a dozen studies that say fast food is chemically addictive. Not just in an emotional/comfort capacity either; people who've eaten diets with high sugar get the shakes when the sugar is taken out of their food. I'm not...

I will not blame McDonald's one little bit for anyone over the age of 18 getting fat on their products. That said, I'll make an argument that Joe Camel and Ronald McDonald ARE the same in some ways. I know that burgers are legal while underage smoking is not, and I also know that McDonald's is...

Fallout 3 taught me that paper books still have value, if only after the apocalypse. Why take any information out of the hand of humanity after the bombs fall?

Good. When I skip the opera to play New Vegas, I can feel good about my cultural decisions.