okay how is "mutilating children" any sort of set-up for a joke.

I thank you for elaborating on that because otherwise I, as an I Am Not A Linguist In Real Life But I Play One On The Internet, would have had to.

Old dictionaries were more or less encyclopedic (if they weren't pure word lists); and yes I agree, it is bizarre, but they are an ... interesting source for gauging expected social views.

Interestingly enough, pagan shares the characteristic of its original meaning referring to rural people; EtymOnline suggests that heathen may have been a loan translation of it.

It also cites a dictionary from 1902 on usage:
Pagan and heathen are primarily the same in meaning; but pagan is sometimes distinctively applied to those nations that, although worshiping false gods, are more cultivated, as the Greeks and Romans, and heathen to uncivilized idolaters, as the tribes of Africa. A Mohammedan is not counted a pagan much less a heathen.

Bottom line: They like their good lady cops they can rescue from near-death so she lets them walk.

- at least the previouslies are original now, so there’s that
- but ugh the music :|
- that fire breather is kinda hot
- why yes i do notice the hotness of one-second extras
- haha, I was just about to say the same thing, presumably-open-kill-guy
- oh god a clown-centric episode
- why
- OH GOD KID A CLOWN ON AN EMPTY ROAD IN THE DARK WHY ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT THIS
- THERE IS A CLOWN STALKING YOU WHY ARE YOU SMILING
- WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, KIDDO
- …you’re burning your dads body just like that out in the open?
- …touching I guess?
- don’t frame your actors through flames, the pitch black and the brightness is a pain on the eyes
- car humour
- also good god CALL ON MISSOURI I AM SURE SHE COULD BE HELPFUL
- ALSO TELL YOU ALL TO CUT YOUR BULLSHIT
- you are in the middle of Deep Shit, Americana, are you sure you want to try breaking and entering
- oh lol, rape jokes
- YOU BROKE IN MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY TALKING INSTEAD OF BEING SMARMY
- WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED THEY HIT YOU AND PUT GUNS TO YOUR BACKS
- YOU ARE IN AMERICA AND YOU JUST BROKE INTO THEIR BAR OR WHATEVER
- at least you are also a lady who doesn’t take their shit, I approve of that in people
- mullet guy humour
- …yeah we know that is the mullet tagline so it’s not funny if somebody says it out loud
- lol random ass shot
- gee, way to get your parents killed, opening kill kiddo
- so, guys hunt and ladies… tend the salon?
- pizza and sixpacks (of beer, I assume)? sign me up!
- touché, Sam, touché
- Jensen Ackles’ smirk is cute though
- oh, kids and their video games harr harr
- NO CLOWNS ARE NOBODY’S FRIENDS
- SMART KID
- …
- NO STUPID KID
- VERY STUPID KID
- okay, ALIBI OR NOT, if murders with the same MO keep happening following a carnival’s trail, THAT SHOULD GET MORE ATTENTION
- oh, blind people humour, always so wacky
- oh, little people humour, always so wacky
- yay vague social commentary about how a lot of legalisation is just about getting uncomfortable sights out of the public’s eyes so we can pretend they don’t exist
- more carnival shots, how riveting
- walking through mirror halls, rivetinger
- hai, PoC extras
- YOU HAD AN EPISODE ABOUT A RACIST GHOST TRUCK, I think talking about clowns is not that out of the ordinary
- WHY ARE ALL YOU CHILDREN INVITING IN CLOWNS TO PLAY
- THAT IS NOT OKAY
- "they shot my clown" YOU ARE A STUPID KID
- SHOUTING
- rakshasas then
- funhouse antics and hilarious inappropriate circus music antics!
- does steam work that way?
- legit brass I guess
- str8ight, oh lovely
- okay mullet dude I kinda like you
- maybe I would do you
- okay, I give you that show, that was a nice final scene, it even had acting and stuff

Previously on SPN: I had real life stuff that kept me from posting my comments. I'm confident they were sorely missed.

I can't talk about KOTOR, but as for Mass Effect, I think it's ~hardness~ is really overstated. I mean honestly, it's more like Dragon Age IN SPACE and with, well, THE MASS EFFECT instead of magic. I hesitated for ages playing it due to pretty much the same reason (that and the lack of proper gay LIs at first), but I ended up loving it heaps, perhaps even more so than Dragon Age.

I would base it more on the question do you like shooters, because it's very shooty and if I weren't playing it with trainers in godmode, I probably would never have finished it.

- stupid teenager antics in the woods? HOW COULD THIS GO WRONG?
- cool, a decrepit hut
- what are tv teenagers even doing
- why do they find this shit interesting
- you can’t even shout that well, dude
- road trip hijinks
- oh god this is gonna be a subplot isn’t it
- did we just jump into a whacky 50s teenagers montage?
- why don’t you just say you’re some paranormal freaks and like to check this shit out?
- THIS IS A COMPLETELY UNNECCESSARY LIE
- this is apparently well-known, you can just be half-lying
- hey, these investigators are geeks DID YOU NOTICE
- and I guess this is going to be one of THOSE episodes
- haha PRANK so funny
- ooh, burn
- girl, why are you friends with those people?
- WHY DOES NOBODY HAVE ANY COMMON SENSE
- also, this pseudorealistic shooting where we see EVERY. SINGLE. STEP is b o r i n g
- goodbye, girl
- couldn’t it have been the guy?
- :|
- okay that was pretty funny, I guess
- FINGERPRINTS, DUDES
- YOU ARE AT A CRIME SCENE UNDER ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE
- DO YOU THINK THIS IS AT ALL A GOOD IDEA, TOUCHING SHIT LIKE THAT
- well, there’s your ghost
- oh god that is not how nerds work
- this is painful
- what is this, a game-of-telephone ghost?
- lol pranks soooo funny
- WEB SURFERS
- 10 000 WEBSURFERS
- THAT’S AS MANY AS TEN THOUSANDS
- ahaha THEY ACTUALLY SAID GAME OF TELEPHONE
- I COULD BE A SUPERNATURAL WRITER, Y’ALL
- …wait that’s terrible
- quality comedy, y’all
- THE TABLE IS VIBRATING O M G SO HILARIOUS
- oh god this is so painful
- so
- so
- terribly
- painful
- WE JUST SAW THAT I COULD WRITE THIS BUT I THINK I COULD DO BETTER
- it’s getting funnerer and funnerer
- …did you buy that or steal that?
- I guess future diners will thank you either way
- you’re trying to get him to destroy his own sigil, right?
- …well I guess not
- DEEP, BRO
- THIS IS NOT HOW NERDS WORK
- the end?

- so from the previouslies, I guess this one will be an arc-heavy one?
- …why are you shouting “hello” at the wind?
- why do people just stand there and wait to be eaten by grues?
- walk away?
- why do people always have like fifty keys?
- I guess we’re dealing with a shadow
- bye, opening kill
- CAN YOU TWO DUNCES JUST FOCUS ON YOUR JOBS GOOD LORD YOU ARE ANNOYING FUCKNUGGETS
- hey guys, remember a couple episodes ago, that one time you worried about fingerprints? MAYBE KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN GAINING ILLEGAL ACCESS TO A CRIMESCENE AND TOUCHING ALL THE THINGS
- …how did they know which splatters NOT to connect?
- oh hai, girl who would have had no personality if she hadn’t turned out to be some demonchild or something
- I mean, you were in the previouslies and I had already forgotten you’d been mentioned?
- haha HELL of a time geddit because she is apparently some agent of some unknown forces l o l u r so original
- oh, is SAM being SUSPICIOUS?
- yeah Dean is being insufferable when Sam wants to tell him about his FEELINGS, and at some later point or next episode, Sam is going to be intrusive and whiny GET SOME CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
- WHY DO PEOPLE ON THESE SHOWS KEEP BANGING ABOUT COINCIDENCES WHEN THEY CLEARLY DO NOT EXIST IN THEIR WORLD
- WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE SO INSUFFERABLY STUPID!?
- HOW DOES THIS SHOW HAVE AN ACTUAL FANDOM OF PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WISH THESE TWO SMARMY FUCKS TO JUST DIE ALREADY!?
- …oh god what did zoroastrianism ever do to you
- i am pretty sure that is not how daevas works
- also no I did not have to look up how to spell daevas, I am that awesome
- …aaaand that was a scene
- hai, one-word extra!
- SMOOTHEST OF OPERATORS
- really inconspicuous, making lots of really loud noises while trying to follower her through an abandoned building
- MAYBE YOU SHOULD AT LEAST TEXT YOUR BROTHER BEFORE TRYING TO INVESTIGATE FURTHER
- HOW MANY KINDS OF ST- oh god whatever
- oh wait, Sam doesn’t get captured? WELL THEN
- you are 2/3rds in let’s not get ahead of ourselves
- way to go being condescending about SOMEBODY TRYING TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM DEMONIC THREATS, SAM
- aww, feelings
- hey meg are you, er, the least perceptive demonspawn ever or something?
- oh thank god I was beginning to wonder
- I’m honestly glad this was all a trap because otherwise that would have been r e a l l y bad writing
- THIS DIALOGUE IS REALLY PREDICTABLE OF COURSE YOU ARE HIS WEAKNESS COME ON
- thank you for the daeva exposition here, totes flawless
- sexual assault is alluring when it’s demon woman on guy!
- bye Meg?
- did you even make sure she is dead?
- DADDY!
- are we getting five more minutes of manpain or … ?
- oh wow you really were that stupid AND DID NOT CHECK IF SHE WAS ACTUALLY DEAD
- WOW YOU ARE REALLY STUPID
- well guess good thing you had that… whatever the hell that was
- YES SAM GET YOUR DADDY KILLED GOOD PLAN
- sad face times