Mimics were in the original AD&D Monster Manual from 1977. The were nasty, amorphous monsters that could take the shape of stonework , doors, chests, or similar things.They secreted glue and would beat anything that touch them with a deadly pseudopod, though the smaller ones could be bribed with food.

Here's the thing, when you need precision, yeah, the metric system is absolutely better, which is why we use it for those things. But for the every day human experience? Even in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada, which have had metric as standard for decades, people still tend to speak in feet, inches, pounds, and…

When do we give up our racing games to symbolically pay our respects to the victims of vehicle fatalities?

They can get a little cumbersome on a manual transmission car, especially if you have to dim going into a turn. I do, however, miss the old dimmer stalks that you pulled towards you with a satisfying click, over the moderns ones you just kind of nudge.

She looks, for once, like a real person who actually raided a tomb full of smugglers and wild animals, not a pin up model. Reminds me of Bruce Willis at the end of Die Hard, actually.

MSRP on the Touring package for an Odyssey is $41,880. The Elite package starts at $44,450. "Easily spend $50,000" may have been an exaggeration, but not much of one.

Well, you are rarely hauling just 5. Kids have friends, and friends come with their own gear, and the days of cramming everyone together on a bench seat are long over. When you live in the deep suburbs or out in the country, you can't really make separate trips or rely on your friends or neighbors to help out. You…

I'm mostly kidding around here, because I think your premise is false, but okay.

Yeah, and I wrote games in Basic on my Commodore 64 when I was 10. I played games on my Amiga that required constantly switching out, and I'm not kidding, 17 3" floppies. I've heard what Wing Commander sounds like through an IBM's internal beep speaker. I spent an entire week setting up a boot shell for Windows 95 so…

Pfff...

My last experience with a PC game. Was at Walmart at midnight, so the Gamestop across the way was open and remembered Fallout New Vegas was coming out that night. Went in and bought it for my laptop. Went home, and put the disk into install. Steam? Okay...make a Steam account, though...you know, I had the physical…

Everything is okay, or nothing's okay.

So...on my 720p television they'll exactly the same?

Well, they did, because the gun you see Ford shooting is an actual Mauser pistol with some bits glued on it. Just like the Stormtrooper rifles are Sterling submachine guns with the stock removed and the heat shield replaced with fins. That's why the blaster shots in the original series had a substance to them. On the…

Media mass is a satire website that has a bunch of pre-written articles and replaces the names with whoever is currently being searched for. The idea is that if you are searching to find out if someone is dead or not, then if it isn't up on all the big sites, it's a rumor and they probably aren't. Also, it gets clicks.

That's how Soviet troops were trained to shoot, and many places that were originally trained by the Soviets still do. It was a tactic developed in WWII when the Soviets fielded entire battalions armed with submachine guns against the Axis, the idea being to put as much lead in the air as possible without bothering…

"Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious, concern for book-learning and formal rules."

The GT40 is a bad example, as that's Clarkson's favorite car ever. He also liked the Ford GT so much he bought one, then he returned it when it kept breaking down on him, and then bought another one. In fact, Ford in general is probably his favorite car company, though he does consider it at least partially British.

I have one.

That is the best thing I've ever seen...