I took my 12 year old not a scifi fan daughter, who didn't really want to see it but was more interested in the fact there would be popcorn.

Actually, he refered to them as "synthetic cannabinoids" which is what they are. He also said "fake pot" which is, also, what they are.

This stuff is a plague. I'm kind of frustrated by the fact that this stuff has been around and available for years, and while it would make the occasional headline it was rarely talked about. Ever since WA and CO made history last election, it really seems like this stuff is all over the news all the time as…

The Dune series has always had a special place in my heart, but I did the same thing kind of. My older brother and father tried getting me to read it when I was young (before 10, I couldn't tell you a precise age beyond that) and I just couldn't. I read it a few years later and it's since provided a solid…

Dune. Got it as a gift from a neighbor at the age of 10 back in 1984, when the movie was coming out. I didn't *hate* it, but at ten years old, most of it flew over my head. I mean, hell— the book has a frakkin' glossary.

I'm gonna be that guy and wonder why a "reboot" goes under "retcon" because they are different things. Bucky being alive and working as a Soviet Assassin is a retcon. Xavier's fucked up treatment of the Summers family is a retcon. Crisis, Flashpoint, Zero Hour...these are reboots. A reboot is everything in continuity…

A hundred years ago we used almost exclusively horses. Those were in use for, what, a couple thousand years? It would be foolish to guess what the next paradigm of travel will become. My prediction would be pretty much exactly what we have now but with a wider range of power sources. The wheeled vehicle is too good to…

Here my issues with the most common answers:

I'll just leave this here:

As a confidently heterosexual man all I can say about that picture is: