Ghost in the Shell? Trigun? Code Geass? Vision of Escaflowne? Fate/Stay Night? Ouran High School Host Club? Full Metal Alchemist? Which of those plots could have been resolved by free communication?

I suspect people are getting working up because you're making a dismissive generalization about an entire medium,…

I misread the curly font as "The Princess Uncle." And now I can't unsee it.

Q Continuum? Not technically an army, but...

Accepted wisdom is that the storm troopers would miss, but the redshirts would all find ways to die anyways.

I think there's (surprisingly!) a great deal more nuance to the issue than your two-sentence comment. But you are correct that math is not the end-all of disciplines. Unless the subject area in question involves things like statistics, in which case math is pretty much gonna be your end-all.

Dunno, I don't get to use a flamethrower in paintball. Or, rather, they wouldn't let me.

Thanks for speaking up.

Just as a counterpoint, there's a guy in one of my classes who prefaces all of his (frequent) comments with "This is probably just me being stupid, but..." and then proceeds to actually be stupid.

Doesn't Eccleston or Tennant imply at one point that he used some sort of WMD to end the Time War?

Just from a character standpoint, a guy who wears a traditional costume with a mismatched accent is far more interesting than a simple stereotype. I rather like the effect.

Dear god, why? WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US?

Yeah, that was kinda the point, inasmuch as it was pointed and not spur-of-the-moment buffoonery.

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