Half-Filipino here and I am biologically required to eat rice with everything and I can attest to all of this. Our happy little 6-cup Zojirushi plays “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” when you start a cook cycle and another upbeat ditty when done. It’s one of the few things in this pandemic hellscape that still brings…

My guess as to why there’s a rush: they want to time it to the release of Halo Infinity, in 2020.

I have a feeling Bilquis has a more pivotal role in her TV incarnation. She appears to be a tool of the New Gods, which makes more sense now than in 2001, when the hook first was released. Back then, she sustained herself by being a prostitute and by finding “offerings” through personal ads and dating services. Today,…

I have a friend who argues that, because President Obama “did an end around” the Senate and did not get the treaty ratified, that he left Trump open to withdraw from it because, ostensibly, the agreement was Obama’s, not America’s. How true is this?

Seriously. I had no idea it was this bad until I watched these. And what is up with male Ryder being unable to make eye contact with Cora? He always seemed to be looking off camera.

I think it’s possible that Ford can datamine the phones/datapads the employees carry around, including Theresa’s. He was, after all, capable of blocking it and said that he built the whole place. Through this datamining, I think it’s feasible he can probably develop a personality profile from which he can program a…

Plague raced across the Star Empire.

I met her at Dragon*Con, too, and I agree— she’s one of the sweetest people around.

That is pretty awesome. Great work. The downside to using gas cannisters as an effect like that is that you don’t get a lot of use out of them. After a half dozen or so bursts the effect gets weaker and, sadly, lame. When I was in the 501st we had a guy in our garrison who rigged up his Boba Fett jetpack nozzles to…

Thank you for not falling back on the term “assault rifle”.

We’ll probably know immediately if LSH shows up in this (or any episode). They’ll pull another cold opening like last week to avoid spoiling everyone with Michelle Fairley’s name in the opening credits.

According to the post show with Weiss and Benioff, GRRM gave them the exact origin story for Hodor and they were just like us right now, saying, "WTF?!"

Yeah, the dark wash in the nooks and crannies goes a long, long way.

In that vein, it might be useful to know that “Mahatma” was a title given to him. His given first name was Mohandas.

That’s for sure. With all the canards and horizontal stabilizers and tails going on there plus the red, white and blue livery, it almost resembles the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl.

“If this was all it took to get people locked away, I’d never have seen the light of day since the 70's.”

I think you might be right. Here’s why: they showed Andrew in the convenience store being approached by Von Strucker Jr. and the two Hydra goons. When they cut back to the scene after Ward escapes, you don’t actually see Andrew’s body, just a bunch of blood and a mess scattered around, then the fuel and then the…

Aside from what everyone else has already mentioned about the AIM-54 being obsolete and out of commission with the aircraft it was design to be carried by, the Phoenix was tempramental and not at all optimal for shooting down fighter sized aircraft. They were weapons designed for a specific purpose. Cold War Soviet…

I liked it a lot, too. It’s a shame the ending is one of the biggest cases of cinematic blue balls in movie history (I might be exaggerating, but not by much).

I’m not ashamed of saying I drink Microsoft’s brand of Kool-Aid. Seriously, I am all in on their ecosystem, such as it is, and I am happy they are innovating again.