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There used to be a restaurant in Cardiff called The Armless Dragon but unfortunately it is now closed. Its location? Wyeverne Road.

In 1350, the total monastic population in England was around 22,000 - between 0.7% and 1% of the total population. Today, there are fewer than 3000 monks and nuns in a population of 67 million - 0.005%. Is it a job? Well, it's a vocation, so there's some overlap. The population of the US in...

This seems highly conjectural - do you have any evidence to suggest that highly-advertised series suffer from poorer completion rates? Parsimony would suggest to me that people stopped watching it because they didn't like it. Reasons for not liking it might include the writing, acting...

From what I can gather, less than 50% season completion typically brings the show into the "risks cancellation" category. For comparison (Netflix shows): Squid Game S1: 87% Arcane S1: 60% The Lincoln Lawyer S1: 56% Resident Evil: 45%. Cancelled. First Kill: 44%. Cancelled. The Irregulars: 41%...

Some viewership figures finally out. RoP was a flop, and only 37% of people in the US who started it managed to make it through the whole series: link With steely determination, I was one of those few. Season 2 has been hampered by a fire on set link. And a horse dying link, drawing PETA's...

Sure. I think this is pretty uncontroversial - even if we tend to stereotype the "tortured artist," and are perhaps willing to afford them more latitude in their views and actions because of their art. But I also think that this tendency has been becoming less forgivable in many ways for quite...

Many. Yes. Lovecraft's overt racism, Gorman's fetishism, Howard's racial perspective, Farmer's obsession with sex, Asimov's exclusion of women, Tolkien's implicit class-and-race-and-religious worldview. Let's face it, the list is endless. It's not about it being acceptable. It's about honest...

When I open the oven and I touch my jacket potato (baked potato, if you're American), if it is too hot, I will keep the door open and let it cool down. I've already coated my potato with olive oil and rock salt, and it has the potential of providing a satisfying meal. After it has cooled...

I mean, most of these complaints really seem levelled against Disney and their sprawling franchise - which is fair enough. But Die Hard and Terminator were never PG-rated, so it's not really a fair comparison. Disney was always family-driven, and careful to adhere to the most conservative moral...

I think these are all fair points - I.e to what extent is an artist in control of their own persona, and to what extent are they conforming to expectation or being curated by a team of fashionistas or being coerced by their manager etc. Instead of Beyoncé, we might look at Lady Gaga or Madonna...

I'm trying to explain why Beyonce expressing her sexuality is different from male fantasy artists drawing sexualized pictures of women. People can draw or paint whatever they like. Again, you are conflating notions of "should not" and "cannot" with the actual substance of the discussion.

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You should certainly wonder. But I think this question implicitly demands the lens of gender identity, and I think that it may be beyond the scope of this thread to constructively analyze. Suffice it to say that I chose the words from and by with care.

A forceful expression of female sexuality - from a woman - and a pictorial representation of a sexualized woman - by a man - are two rather different things.

I think the words slave, slavery carry a great deal of psychological weight, one not shared by thralldom, peonage, serfdom, indentureship, and even though the rights of slaves have varied by time and place, it is within the context of the US that some of the most egregious abuses took place -...

I don’t think anyone is denying that, and I’ve re articulated that I don’t shy away from controversial material in my own games. This is more about what is a reasonable, uncontroversial baseline for Wizards in terms of their product. WotC has to make rational choices about how they market...

Maybe not. I think the world itself, especially insofar as it differs from our own in geography, climate, biology and culture, is given a central place. Its peculiarities - where it diverges from our normal experiences - are constantly emphasised. Its scope is at once epic (the whole world) and...

I think that's more about a human protagonist being transported to an alien world. Planetary Fantasy would seem to me maybe to place the environment itself - presented as a holistic entity - as a kind of antagonist to be overcome, so it might include Barsoom. But now I'm thinking about...

Not an easy question to answer. But I think Burroughs' Barsoom and Richard Corben's Den and Howard's Almuric share a kind of continuity with Dark Sun - psi powers, deserts, despots & slaves.

I think this is an important point, and I hadn't really considered it before. It does make me think that an uncontroversial baseline is a responsibility of the large publishers. I recently did some digging around a scenario called Bar-Room Brawl from White Dwarf #11. It was reprinted in Best...