But why does it have that weird, pancake nose?

The J-20 is like the freakish offspring between the YF-22 and an Su-47. Which, yeah, when I think about it, is actually pretty cool.

Oh, it’s neat for sure. I just don’t want have its babies.

Hey, if you like it, that’s cool. I just don’t find the design attractive, superficially speaking. I’m sure it’s quite an engineering marvel for its time; but nope, it’s not pretty at all to me.

Yep, I noticed that similarity, especially those intakes. I’m just not a fan of that, visually.

Amazing. That might be the single ugliest “modern” aircraft design I’ve ever seen. I’m going to have to look for a model kit of that now...

In a similar vein, the movie Lilya 4-ever really, really upset me. All of the horror movie examples given so far in this thread seem like the childish whining of people who can’t separate fiction from reality, but Lilya 4-ever is so opressively bleak and soul-crushing and real (based on a true story even) that I felt…

Exactly. The fact that this is somehow an “ethical” dilemma for somebody just shows how ridiculous we, as a society, have become. I get the feeling that the next logical step in this subject is vegans questioning whether we are obligated to “train” our pets only to eat organic soybean-derived food. (Edit: Obviously I…

I take back everything I’ve said in the rest of this post about how dumb this topic is. I refuse to date anyone who is obsessed with Firefly. I’m utterly sick of hearing about that stupid show.

There is logic in what you are saying, but you have to admit, if your ideal relationship hinges on one particular movie, you should probably reevaluate yourself and your expectations for dating. I can understand being so into sci-fi that you expect a partner to appreciate sci-fi as well, but if it gets to the point…

Be reasonable. It’s completely possible to enjoy that movie, and also realize that in many ways, it’s totally obnoxious and more than a little stupid. If you can accept that, and be okay with it, maybe you can learn to tolerate those who actively dislike it. I love a lot of completely stupid movies, so I don’t blame…

Very well stated. I never got into Game of Thrones the tv show for this very reason. I realized that was really just a dressed up soap opera right away, and the last one of those I ever got into was Lost.

That’s one attractive ball of ice. Sad that, as with all eye-catching glamour shots, the subject doesn’t really look like that in real life.

No to go against the group-think here, but I liked Terminator a lot more than Jurassic World. Jurassic World came the closest to boring me that a movie with lots of dinosaurs can. Terminator was just dumb and cheesy, which isn’t really all bad thing for a Part 5 of any 80’s action franchise. Jurassic World, on the…

I’m calling it now, Alien 5 is going to be terrible, like AvP-terrible. I look forward to reading years of Butt-hurt posts about it from obsessive Aliens fans. Especially since I am a Ridley Scott apologist who gets dumped on constantly by those same people.

You’re exactly right. For as much real or perceived difference there is between the coasts and middle America, the fact of the matter is that there will always be far more tacky, ignorant folks clamoring for dumb entertainment than cultured, highly educated people supporting weird, artsy crap in any population you…

That chart seems a bit muddled in my opinion. It’s mostly correct, but to my knowledge, current speculation is that the “Aves”- that is, birds, evolved directly from an early group of theropod dinosaurs, which included Archeopteryx. Having Archeopteryx and a Brontosaur in this tree just seems a bit redundant, since…

Your history is a lot like my own with Fallout. I’m quite a bit older than you, but I was a console gamer pretty much exclusively up until I went to college, and then I didn’t play any video games for years until I finally bought an Xbox 360, in 2007. I’d honestly never heard of the Fallout series (nor The Elder…

Watched with Ween playing in the background. Had mild acid flashback.

Holy cow, Apocalypse looks like absolute garbage, and I’m not even a comics geek. I never cared for the visual design in the X-men films, but this is something beyond terrible.