I too immediately forgot about Coldplay as soon as they leave my field of vision

That is your perogative!

I mean, if you're counting Lewis you should probably also count Tolkein, for similar reasons.

But I guess the time to introduce that would have been Athens 2004, so we might have missed the opportunity.

I suppose this is as close as we can hope to get to philosophy as an olympic sport?

There is a supreme irony in trying to go for the 'accuracy to the text' angle when everyone's walking around in batman helmets

But of course, you have a method for determining whether people would use your post for good and not ill that is completely unclouded by your non-epistemic value judgements, right?

Nah, I think it's about the Value-Free Ideal of Science

If you make a substance specifically targeted at people who are likely to be less-than-usually dexterous, maybe it would be nice to not also make it radioactively orange

Not yet, but today might be the day.

And the Gender Euthyphro writes itself. Is it manly because men do it, or do men do it because it's manly?

I mean, a lot of people teach the allegory of the cave alongside The Matrix. And the trans subtext of the Matrix isn't exactly subtle. I think you could probably make the egg cave work without really stretching the text at all!

But at least it was bad in a refreshingly novel manner. The world's most expensive shit fanfic

However, 80% of the time, doing that will not yield a good show. Evidence: Rings of Power