Yeah, seriously. She's strikingly cute, but then I have a thing for realistically-proportioned brunettes, so...

I think the point was not to ask "Why?" in the heat of the moment, when tempers are running high and the response is more likely to be defensive than thoughtful. Asking "Why?" after things have calmed down would be a better time for self-reflection, or so I might imagine.

You know, I've been playing Skyrim (I realize I'm about 2 years late, but whatever) and I've noticed that a large number of times, the random enemies I'm fighting will #11 just as the kill-cam kicks in and they die horribly. Particularly bandits. Always with the taunting just as I slaughter them.

Looks to me like the olive that goes in a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.

While this movie is indeed laughable, it becomes much better if you think about it as the earliest prequel to the Warhammer 40k universe, when humans first discover the Warp.

Eh? I'm a huge fan of the Wing Commander games and I still regard this as one of the worst movies of all time, compounded by the fact that Chris Taylor (the guy who created the games) was the director and executive producer.

I think the main problem with this is that most solutions—which don't directly involve a singularity-type revolution of thought—immediately get shouted down with McCarthy-era cries of "communism!", "socialism!" and the like.

In the 24-universe, all traffic moves at precisely the speed of plot.

I watched the 15-minute preview. It's competent, but relying very hard on well-used tropes to communicate its intent, making it feel a bit... I dunno, campy, almost? I'm hoping it will be able to find its legs.

I do. And the face-sketch of "Annikin" looks an awful lot like Orlando Bloom.

Good for you! I've been building PCs (oh god oh god) since I was about your age (I hope I will never have to say those horrible words again) and you're right... there's no tension quite like the one where everything's finally in place, and you're getting ready to hit the power button for the first time. Still makes me…

I thought you were a virgin until you'd seen a live Rocky Horror show, myself. If that's not the definition, then I was lied to pretty thoroughly as a teenager...

I want to like this so bad, but... I can't shake this feeling that if it's awesome, Syfy is going to gut it after a single season, or it's just going to suffer along in mediocrity and be yet another example of how no one does good TV sci-fi anymore.

Man, John Scalzi is working hard to single-handedly restore the reputation of the SFWA. Between this and his call-out of Random House for their awful ebook imprints, the man's doing good for sci-fi/fantasy authors (and readers!) everywhere. He's like some kind of authorial superhero.

Oh, it was both unpleasant and hilarious. Also, it's always been great to be able to say "Oh yeah, The Matrix Online? Literally, so bad it made me sick." =)

It literally made me physically ill to play The Matrix Online for more than about 10 minutes at a time. A greenish tinge to everything, plus lots and lots of running up circular staircases, makes for an odd sort of seasickness.

Oh, I totally agree. I was mostly categorizing my own response which went:

Following the links through to StackExchange, the commenters there seem to think that these are probably someone tracing the images and then having a computer spit out the function that produces the image, since some of these functions are literally pages long when written out.

It kept me reading, engaged, drawn into the story. I'm going to have to check out this guy's other work, it seems.

Yeah... it would probably be more accurate for Lucas to say that the Jedi are modeled on the Samurai *aesthetic*, but with the philosophy of a Zen monk and magic powers. =)