Actually, Mr. Chou has a sword that’s designed to act like a steel ribbon, able to slash from any angle. He wears it around his waist as a belt under normal circumstances. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find an animated GIF with that particular weapon, so I hoped enough people have seen Rurouni Kenshin to get the reference.

Oddly enough, I consider Stewart’s performance in this clip amongst his finest. Television and cinema acting tends towards a stylized aesthetic, but his naturalistic approach (along with that of the other actor and, I assume, the director) sells the scene perfectly and underlines the absurdity of the situation.

Swords flex when sufficient pressure is applied. If your sword flops about in its scabbard, what you have is a poorly made sword.

Either that, or you’re this gentleman:

That being said, they really should’ve used a steel prop for that scene. The flapping and waving truly broke the suspension of disbelief.

Nostalgia and the general decline of cinema.

It would be nice if they could add a variant on outposts from Beyond Earth: one-tile cities with no production that only allow you to improve adjacent resources.

No spreadsheets, but the online wikis do help. Civ VI will have a long tutorial that gets players up to speed, since it has everything Brave New World had and more.

While I have one or two minor concerns about Civ VI (or believe I did... I forget what they were at this moment), the last issue you bring up is really my only true objection to Civilization VI.

Point of fact, my reaction when hearing about the new game was more or less along the lines of “Already? But I’m still…

He meant to say “Um, guys... I don’t actually know how to tell if his heart is still beating.”

And they said: “Is there a thumping sensation against your fingers?”

“No, it’s more of a scratchy tickle.”

“Well, dammit! Even if we win this thing, that’s a sure sign we’ll have a sequel in 2016!”

Put yourself in the shoes of a creator of something, something popular that has a fanbase. Now let’s say your doing it for 10 years and now suddenly a fan says “No I don’t like this direction, it’s not the X that I’ve been enjoying for ten years” and makes his own, and makes money on it....and then takes the money he…

Yess, yess! This is exactly right. Join ussss!

That’s so...let’s face it, it’s people mary-sueing themselves to be a notable character but trying on new personalities - much teen, wow - or trying to create their perfect plaything while claiming Tracer as their own.

Shh! Quiet! Hollywood’s been trying to get rid of writers for over a century. Don’t make them believe that they can actually do it!

This alien covenant is getting worse all the time.

So do conservatives. Remember?

That’s already a seven-year mission’s worth of disappointment. Good god.

Or runs into a screw traveling at relativistic speeds.

Is that really something to worry about? That’s going to happen no matter what. If we worried about the pseudoscientific backlash of every line of inquiry, then we would never undertake any scientific venture.

It’s their money. We can’t tell them how to spend it. Let them waste it.

But, this: “KIC 8462852—the star voted most likely to harbor an advanced alien civilization”?