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How do you plead? Objection! You can't object to yourself. Oh right then, overruled. You're not the judge, and this is confusing. Uhh... what's your favorite island?

<double hug>

There were times when if you wanted to find a job, all you had to do was ask around. It was that easy. I don't know this from personal experience, just from older people shaking their heads at my filling out dozens of job applications and getting straight-up no response. I finally got somewhere with the help of a temp agency, but I'm in a city. It's not a big city, but it's a 2-million-plus metropolitan area. Spoilered for socioeconomic ranting: Long story short, it's not your fault, though it doesn't help to live in a small town. There are a lot of things that don't help.

How far has a Jehovah's Witness hurled? Don't hate a joke. Anyone gets evil, kinda derpy. HARDEHARHAR

Nothing to do with water. Their victim escapes at one point, and they just pick a random bystander to torture instead.

Worse! They don't bother to work out how he will eat or breathe!

Whew! Well, then... A couple of sadists trap a man in an inhospitable environment and torture him for years.

The Crow?

Postcards from the Edge?

Drop Dead Fred? I don't think that had a plot with her mother.

It was hard to detect for a while, since it has a half-life of 3.

(looks up the meme) I don't know what I can say about that except... THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

Now look here, I... [pug short-circuits all rational thought]... Who's on patrol? Who's on patrol?

HBO's flexing some muscle now that they have a competing streaming service. There's one thing you've always been unable to find on Netflix streaming - the HBO shows. The other competitors like Amazon and Hulu hoard stuff occasionally, but they tend to ease up.

The selection comes and goes based on contracts expiring and such. The big stuff tends to come back... usually.

I don't think the Sanderson fandom is growing at such an explosive rate that you should really be worried. It's the core plus more, not the core overwhelmed by a swarm.

I agonized over this. Recently, in fact. Here's the way it finally sank in to me: The decision points are this: 1) The show puts the car behind one of the doors. 2) The player chooses a door. 3) Monty picks a wrong door to open. 4) The player decides whether to switch. #1 and #2 are random. Given a long enough series of players, #4 is effectively random as well. The one that's not random is #3. Monty cannot select either the door with the car or the door the player selected. If the player chose the door with the car, Monty's choice is a 50/50 shot between the other two. If the player didn't, there is only one door Monty can open. If the player guessed right, Monty has a 50/50 shot to pick a door, and the player has a stay-and-win or switch-and-lose choice. This only happens 1 in 3 times - the odds of the player guessing right the first time. If the player guessed wrong, Monty has no choice and the player has a switch-and-win or stay-and-lose choice. The player standing there on stage has no indication of which scenario occurred. However, their guessing right only happens 1 time in 3. So odds are, they're in the switch-and-win. Edit: Oh, and this assumes that Monty always opens a door. If Monty only opens a door some of the time, the player should probably assume psychological trickery and stay when he opens. That's just my conjecture.

To try to narrow things down: the "dead guy" isn't Jesus, is he?

Spoilered for same.

There's a Versailles, Missouri... pronounced ver-SALES. If your facepalms right now could be hooked to a power grid...

Nuh-uh!

The Wizard of Oz, Spaghetti?

The new episodic King's Quest is buggy (it crashed a loot), but it's a charming, funny, well-written tribute to the series. I really recommend it.