Dang it! Can't find a way to delete a bad post!

I'm genuinely shocked that anywhere in New Mexico made it on the list. Albuquerque is like one giant suburb in search of a parent city, and it goes downhill from here.

It could also be a distorted interpretation of the Republic, which I believe Imperial Rome still made pretenses of being.

Doc Smith blew the lid off competency porn with the Lensman books. All the Lensmen are Batman-level competent, the Second Stagers are even better, especially Kimball, and the Children make the Second Stagers look like bumbling teenagers by the end.

This is who I always think of when I hear "The Armadillo":

"[A]nimals, bugs and other creatures"? Bugs and other creatures (barring some microscopic organisms, for some definitions of "creature") are all animals, you know.

Well, he did say "in certain respects." Sure, they're both versions of Moffat's cleverest man in the room, but they're in different points on that spectrum.

The section between Treebeard and the AT-AT appears to be missing.

I'll give you that no one quite ever hit the level of Michael Wisher, but Julian Bleach came damn close. Less scientific curiosity, more batshit insanity, but by that point in the character's existence it makes sense.

Intergalactic?

Once I realized the movie was a satire, I felt a lot better about it. Its being a satire means it had even less business appropriating the name of a classic conservative near-utopian novel, but it makes it a much better movie.

I've actually known people who argued that the Doctor wasn't a "person" because he was an alien.

Well, quite a number of the later Doctors have places where you can dump indefinably large chunks of time. The Fourth Doctor could have traveled for centuries of subjective time with Romana, just for a start.

More like fairly detailed, requiring a player to improvise like mad to use effectively, and working almost identically for every school of magic.

Okay, this is about the only one of these "creepy" Photoshops that really, really bugs me, and you have it on the splash page, enormously huge near the top of the article, and in variant form later on. Not how I wanted to start my Monday, people!

Tom Lehrer said it best, I think.

I always thought the 456 were entirely fathomable once we found out why they wanted the kids. Not that it made them any less creepy.

Agreed, Paranoia Agent is a great anime, but it's not particularly unknown. It was in heavy rotation on Cartoon Network for a good while.

DVD, Blu-Ray, or Amazon Instant Video I believe. I don't think it's on Netflix or Hulu yet.

Ah, DragonRaid! I had a college roommate who had a copy. The learning scripture to activate your powers bugged me more at the time than I think it would now. The real failure of DragonRaid is the number of times it would say "unlike a fantasy roleplaying game, DragonRaid is X," where X was something like "not limited…