Half the issue is that we’re trying to derive meaning from a text where meaning, um, was not the first thing on their mind.

Everyone that’s ever used a transporter is a clone.

Here is the thing, though. Way back when, when I first heard that Marvel was making Iron Man, my response was. “Huh? A second tier Marvel character?” Then another then...Thor? Fox had the prime properties with the XMen, and Sony had Spiderman, and neither really did as well as the MCU in terms of quality. DC should…

Again, I’m reminded of the dystopian novel — maybe David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas? — in which “disney” has replaced “movie” as the generic term for motion pictures.

Dickhead is wrong, that at least is a functioning part of a dick. I’d say this guy is more like an asshair, just something that exists for no reason other than to get shit on things.

Sounds to me like Arch Warhammer is a dick.

People who are sticking up for Epic like they are some small company sticking up for the lowly game devs by giving them more money (despite that money actually going to the Publishers) confuse me. Like how do they not get that Epic is big and can only afford to do this because they take a cut of nearly every game…

My money is on Nebula stealing the kill from the Avengers

They’re all fighting types.

Yes, we all know the bottom line is money. But there is a reason it works so well. It encourages kids to link up and connect with their friends/siblings, because you can’t get them all just by yourself. From a gamer standpoint, we are all thinking - it is just so they can sell me the game twice! But, kids aren’t…

Yes, Steam built those features over time - that’s really quite besides the point. If I were to bring a car to market today with no radio, no A/C, no power steering or brakes, etc. - how do you think I’d fare against the competition? It wouldn’t matter much that I was just a new guy in the biz (which Epic isn’t,…

‘Michael’s aesthetic”.... Was utter dog shit from the beginning and was one of the main complaints about the otherwise reasonably decent first movie. Only after the movies completely devolved to complete nonsensical clusterfucks did the complaints about the ‘aesthetic’ and the robot design go away. Not to say that…

Never forget, Joe loved Transformers 2 and Suicide Squad.

Now, if you see any art that mimics the basic figures of the strip—one figure, then a standing and sitting figure, then two standing figures, then a standing figure and a lying one—then chances are it’s a reference to Loss

Aside from minor edits, I never spend too much time in character creators outside of changing the skin color to match mine IRL and making said character chubby, like I am IRL. Is this a odd thing?

The “M.” is for Master-computer.

Global And National Defense Hypernet Intelligence, or G.A.N.D.H.I.

The Penny Arcade encounter tale is unabashedly told from Jerry and Mike's side of the story. I was actually there at Foolscap when the whole thing went down and I can tell you there was plenty of douche-baggery going on between both Ellison and Jerry/Mike.