Unfortunately, her turn at Saturday Night Live was one of the most wooden and charmless hostings in the last ten years, well below the usual par of actor hosts, and more on the level of professional athletes. Hopefully she's better at comedy when not in front of an audience.

Like I said, it was some cursory looking - that's what I get for looking at top search results. Anyway, I didn't know earthquakes were a big deal that far up the coast. Volcanoes, sure, but, forgive my ignorance, how many of them actually represent a threat?

To be less jokey about it, there are electric pumps for that sort of thing.

Plenty of that black gold sitting in the surely innumerable abandoned vehicles strewn about the country.

I hold out vague hope that your comment may be evoking Rebecca Howe.

I'm sure Phil by this point has a highly developed siphoning embrasure.

I get octopusses…but why land octopusses? Won't they be content to control what will surely be about 90% of the surface of the future earth from their octagonal fortresses?

I was a little shocked at how fast everything was. Perhaps I no longer have a clock in my head counting how long some mythical "general audience" will stand for oddness, and I had little illusion that Forte was going to be the only character, but I thought there would at least be a few introductory episodes…

Doing a cursory check of natural disaster probabilities, it looks like @PedanticEditorType is correct that the Pacific Northwest seems ideal within the continental US: free from virtually all natural disasters, temperate climate, fertile, and with enough urbanity to harvest for resources.

…The dogs are all slobs, and the cats are all uptight?

A U-Haul trailer! She probably even left a deposit in the till.

Astronaut Jones will appear, of course.

It also proves that a lot of times, all it takes is a single line or wordless expression to pay something off.

Yeah, the main fault of the rulebooks, I think, were that they didn't flesh out how differing paradigms would really work enough. It's a concept as vast as human imagination - you've got to put a box around the sandbox, otherwise you've just got an undifferentiated pile.

What might be ideal, if turn-based is out of the question, is borrowing a page out of the FTL playbook and have pausable real-time, which certainly would allow more of the strategic planning and tactical thinking possibilities of the original boardgame.

I think one of the reasons it flew under a lot of people's radar is that it was a smaller-stakes, lower budget picture - it owed a lot more to John Carpenter than to George Lucas or Peter Jackson, as well as being built on a comic property perhaps a bit tainted by the laughingstock that is the Stallone version, and I…

I like the sound of it. Bookmarked!

Great point. One of the touches I love about the Dune series is that he built counters to any weapon, no matter how powerful: blades against personal shields, political strictures against the use of atomics, mantras against mind attacks, and so on - it forced the use of careful planning and lateral thinking (and…

I suppose you're not too thrilled about this?

Wow. I knew Woodring worked in animation (where is my Saturday Morning Frank cartoon?!), but not that he rubbed shoulders with Toth and The King.