As far as real income and income inequality, that depends on what country you're looking at. Certainly places like South Korea are far better off today than thirty years ago.

If I may add:

You took this more seriously than I had intended.

But there's no reason why they'd have to chose the canon ending, unless they want a "happy ending" for the film. Really, there's no reason why they'd have to stringently stick to the specific of the game's plot either. The medium's different and you go with what will…

Unless you wanted to make sequels, why would it matter?

And what you do is film to endings, a light and dark side, which diverge at the Reven reveal. Release both at the same time.

The EU is a very, very big thing, and parts of it were good. But in my opinion a lot of it wasn't, for a variety of reasons.

And also person taste. Plenty of people don't like Blade Runner or the Dune books, both of which I absolutely adore and have since I was a teenager; preference isn't inherently right or wrong, just a reflection of what we personally enjoy.

I'm curious to see how the newer iterations of Star Wars endure. We'll know in a few decades if the prequels were just "for kids" or if they do have lasting appeal. As someone who was very invested in the OT as a child and who didn't enjoy the prequels as a teen, I'm sure that I'm not objective enough to offer an…

Oh, I had forgotten about Kang. And don't forget about Arnie Darvin.

Amen on the story, and I love that they brought back the original actor—something that DS9 did as well, as I recall.

To be fair, and acting and story were just about what you'd expect from an episode of TOS. And while it's awful silly by today's standards, I thought it made it awful charming.

Very DBZ, if you ask me. Though my favorite part of where Prof. X is blasting Magneto with—presumably—mind rays, while Eric blasts back with . . . magnetism?

Well, guess I'm not a nerd after all :p

I think this is the most civilly apologetic argument I've ever seen online before. Sort of reminds me of this guy:

Well, that's something we MUST remedy immediate. Excuse me while I shamelessly upload a few pics I love:

. . . why was it gone?

The great irony about all of this is that out of the industries that the FTC monitors, it's the gaming industry which self-regulates the rating system the most diligently.

Wonderful short, that. And completely true.

What Zechs13 said. They have names like "Kir Kanos," and apparently those spears they have are actually force pikes, though I was never entirely sure what that meant.

I think you're making this a much bigger deal than it ought to be, and I don't know that I really like the line of thought you're implying. While race and color (unfortunately) still matter in our world, I don't know that the solution is trying to avoid any image or portrayal which could be construed as offensive. I'd…