it makes me want travel back in time and punch 15-year-old me right in the solar plexus.

Could The Hunger Games get published today?

Maybe this just means Foundation is old enough to have become legit.

I have to wonder whether the guy's ever read Understanding Comics.

Sorry 'bout that. Try this. (I also found discussion threads where he argues about it here and here.)

Doctor Who aside, isn't this also the guy who wrote that rant about how the art in every anime made in the past decade-and-a-half supposedly objectively sucks?

There's no such thing as an "infinitely large" prime. Do you mean arbitrarily large?

Is that scary and/or annoying? Sure, but who said the world was anything else?

Why would they have done that? And Amy didn't look like she was being held captive.

The big question I've had for the past year: When and where was that picture of Amy in "Day of the Moon" taken?

You reload and take aim.

I didn't even notice.

I totally used to do the one at 1:14. All the time. Later I figured how to parametrize the curve it made — from T=0 to 1, X = T^2 and Y = (1-T)^2, or vice versa.

Like gay battle cries and lousy leaders?

1) Scientific studies can be done poorly and be worth questioning.

Many authors would beg to differ on your original/derivative division. (The most recent work on that list I read was I think The Eyre Affair, which I found to be a pretty good Jane Eyre fanfic — brief Martin Chuzzlewit crossover notwithstanding — despite not being familiar with the source material. Even with some very…

Or a Hybrid Rainbow.

I think Cyborg 009 is kids' stuff.

If you think a foreordained future makes storytelling impossible, you've been reading the wrong stories. Shakespeare, for one, would disagree. ("From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;/Whose misadventured piteous overthrows/Doth with their death bury their parents'…

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