And I'll take your point that a lot of the changes made to long-standing systems (particularly those that have passed through many hands) have more to do with outside influences than trying to improve the play experience.

I misread the name of the protagonist of The Villain's Sidekick as "HeadCannon" and thought at first that it was a really great pun.

I'd say there are a lot of people today who lack education in the scientific method and pretty much treat even well-known science as if it were magic.

I'll address GURPS because I ran a GURPS Supers game for several years that transitioned from 3rd to 4th edition.

Oh, there is definitely rules creep in GURPS, Champions, and BRP. Mostly because they create new settings that either leveraged the existing rules in ways they weren't meant to be used (see GURPS Supers, for one - it took three editions of Supers and one of the core rules to really make it compatible with mainstream…

My guess would be they cut it up at least in part to make it fit in the scanner.

Whoops! Misread that three times as "Mark Hamill wasn't even in the Guyver."

He was in the first live action movie. It was a U.S.-Japanese co-production from the early 90s, and about as good as you might expect.

My first thought at Ghosts of the Civil Dead was, "Pardon me, but I'm afraid we're going to have to haunt this area. Small children, the elderly, and anyone with a heart condition may wish to vacate these premises before we get started."

The main reason for the custom computer interface is probably that they don't have to pay Apple or Microsoft to use their trademarks.

That one I can at least logic out as being not about scale but about moving to a "new level." "Light years ahead of its time" is just bad English.

Coulson may have more than one master at this point, explaining his willingness to go around Fury on the disposition of Dr. Hall. Maybe there's going to be more crossover with Avengers 2 than we've been led to believe, and he's got some Ultron code in him along with the Coulson personality.

Interesting. According to the short quiz, going from northern Illinois as a kid to northern New Mexico as a teen and an adult makes me sound like I'm from southwestern Illinois - or somewhere in north central Maryland.

You know, despite growing up in the 80s and listening to that song for years, I don't think I'd ever seen the video. They really wanted to make a Kilroy Was Here movie, didn't they?

Just once I'd like to see some Traveller designs in one of these things. I mean, if they've got WH40K . . .

As far as I'm concerned, any TV show or movie focusing on SHIELD needs two things: flying cars and life-model decoys. (The lack of flying cars, even more than David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury, was the major point against the 1990s TV movie.)

Fitz-Simmons were very organic, and that shone through in places, but I thought they were pretty stock. Their interactions with the rest of the cast were fairly minimal. Coulson and May play off each other, and I see potential in the Coulson-Ward relationship, but that was really it.

Most of it was probably work-for-hire. Unfortunately, as heir to TSR's intellectual property Wizards probably owns the art outright.

I kind of wish they'd gone with the original d4, d6, d8, d12, and d20-labeled-0-through-9-twice instead of a modern dice set.

Every computer "RPG" is ultimately derived from D&D, and Final Fantasy shows those roots fairly clearly in lots of places, especially pre-FFX.