My friends and I had a hearty laugh when Magneto seemingly killed hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in his rage attack and the movie ends with a smiling Charles basically saying, “Oh, you... Get out of here, ya rascal!” to Magneto outside of the Danger Room.

I think it’d be fine for Picard to be one of the Star Trek captains who dies peacefully in bed after a long life.

Minor point, it’s “Meths”, as in Methuselah (The guy that lived the longest in the Bible, at 969 years old), not “Mechs”. While there is talk of artificial sleeves, this is not that.

BECAUSE THAT’S HOW YOU GET ANTS

Yes

“T’Challa, keep your foot off that blasted Samoflange!”

jiggling your gigi, screaming mimi, flouring your biscuit...

“Stops” in photography refer to a doubling of the amount of light being let in by the lens (this can be done by having a larger lens that captures more light OR by having the shutter remain open for longer. But by opening the shutter open for longer, you increase the amount of motion blur, and there’s only so long you…

That teleporting around was kind of a dick move, no?

Oh, wait, I know these guys!

Man(!), reading this article, there was so much I wanted to add to what you wrote, then I kept reading and... well, f*** it...

“IN THE MIDDLE OF MY BACKSWING?!”

is there a place where i can listen to this without having to signup to spotify?

The circle-hexagon thing in the middle of the rear of TIEs are solar ionization reactors, not engines, and it’s a constant mistake made by SW fan artists. Their engines are the pair tiny red dots to either side. TIE = twin ion engine. Nonetheless it is great art.

It’s stunning how prescient “Past Tense” was. It came out in 1994, but featured all of these things:

The episode where B'lanna that gets stranded on a planet with a writer who thinks shes one of their gods should be on this list.