That's just not true, or you would be more effective in battle once disarmed. As far as energy transfer goes, yeah, energy transfer is how weapons work. You are taking the energy from, say, your fist and putting into the body of your target in hopes that it will overwhelm the structural integrity of their physiology…

Well, considering that Brienne's armor didn't protect her from punching, I'm going to go on a limb and say it wouldn't stand up to swords and I have no idea why she wears it. In fact, I have no idea why anyone outside of Frodo ever bothers wearing armor in any fantasy or historic movie or show. Even the full plate of…

Okay, the Marvel/Avengers template for a shared universe is six-years old, coming off the success of Iron Man in 2008. This was considered overly-ambitious and extremely risky until the release of The Avengers just two years ago, and even then, there was some trepidation that the success of the Avengers wouldn't…

Native American is just as much a term imposed from the outside as "Indian" and is equally meaningless and confusing because native American has a more general legal definition. American Indian is actually the preferred term where there is a preference, but there usually isn't. Native is okay, too, especially if you…

It's a lobster. A steampunk lobster keg. A brilliantly bizarre Miscellaneous Magic item from the first DMG.

I watched the live action Ghost Busters when I was a little, little kid in the 70s and when the movie hype started, I told people all about about Spencer, Tracey and Kong. Everyone thought I was making it up. So the non-real cartoon had a special place in my heart.

I was going to go with A History Of Violence myself.

That would be the joke...

You say that, until some guy in a tuned Accord tries to take you off a light and you beat him accidentally...

If you think everyone else in the world is crazy but you, you are probably the crazy one.

So, was the "Caucasian Translation" one meant to be an example of how not to write an ethnicity?

Expedition to Barrier Peak is my favorite module ever. Of course, we were all obsessed with reading it and looking at the pictures so all of the surprises were spoiled the second it came out, but still. I'd love to run a modern rules version of it with people who aren't familiar with it.

In 1989? Everyone. That's pretty much exactly what we thought cars would be like in the far flung future of 2014. In fact, we'd have been pretty surprised that it used gas at all. We'd have wondered where it came from, since it was supposed to have run out by now.

What cars today would have been unthinkable in 1989? The year I graduated high school?

This is the cover of Spider-Woman #1 that will show up in stores. It has always been the cover of Spider-Woman that will show up in stores. What are we arguing about again?

Why did she draw Justin Beiber as Batman?

My geek senses have failed me! All of those months of playing Tie Fighter were useless after all!

The blade wouldn't have been exceptionally sharp that far down. It would have been dulled by the fight, if it had been sharpened at all. There wasn't much use in keeping the edge sharp. While smallswords were deadly when thrust, the weight and shape of the blade, as well as the relatively soft steel of the time, meant…

That's not an X-Wing, but its precursor the Headhunter, which was never shown in the movies but was featured heavily in the Tie Fighter computer game. This almost certainly takes place before Episode IV.

It's the opposite,. That's a Z-95 Headhunter, the precursor to the X-Wing, meaning this probably takes place early in the rebellion, if not before it entirely.