Dammit, “many bells down wears many stupid hats!” Stop leaking my super-secret Civ strategies!

My sincerest apologies! I have seen so many native English speakers (who ought to know better) butcher the language that I assumed you were one of them. Clearly I was mistaken.

I glanced at the Wikipedia article, and it does appear that the situation could be more complicated than I expected. I will have to do more…

So... doesn’t a responsible, grown, Serious Adult like you have something better to do than troll an online forum?

Seriously? You think you’re more mature than people playing a children’s video game when you act like this?

Just saying “nope” to something doesn’t mean you’re right. Please explain why you insist on calling grown adults children when your rhetoric wouldn’t win you an eighth grade debate competition.

Chess is for infants. Now this game will improve your cognitive function.

Indeed. Those pesky youngsters are damaging our culture and our country—not the terrible economy, a lack of white-collar employment to match our unprecedented number of Bachelor’s degree holders, and lack of any decently-paying jobs whatsoever.

With a stiff neck? No chance!

Aaand in summary of a long a and mildly (but humorously) contentious comment thread: consciousness is preserved via Star Trek transporters, because Federation technology runs on bullshit.

He knows that Star Wars isn’t the same as Star Trek so yes, he does.

So, as for the “protecting the innocent” bit... what happens when someone frames you with the cunning application of Photoshop, Premiere, and Autodesk Maya?

Yeah, but the limit of the function of the percentage of all human beings having lived who remain alive over time is zero as time approaches infinity.

Given how many languages there are in the world—and that English is very Germanic—it really isn’t. “Vader” can also be derived from “invader,” and he was a bureaucrat (with the same name) in early drafts, while Father Skywalker was still a separate character who appeared in the movie.

No, it’s not. The “Episode IV” subtitle didn’t enter into the equation after his writer for Empire came up with the twist. Before that, it was going to be twelve films in the tradition of old Flash Gordon serials, each with a different director taking the series in his or her own direction, and before even that it was…

Actually, it is my understanding that Quantum Field Theory indicates the possibility both of multiple futures and of multiple pasts. It makes sense, if we’re going to allow time travel, that Spock Prime happened upon an alternate past that deviated from his own in certain key respects prior to his arrival.

It’s almost as if they’re explaining to us how complex he is now so that we’ll read that complexity into an utterly generic performance.

Thank you for posting the Wikipedia page. Although I was looking for something more specific, I appreciate the link and I will read it at my first available opportunity.

Men’s Rights Activists are the ones on trial right now, not feminists. Why don’t you show me some MRAs who are actually doing something more than complaining who are also not feminists? Because if the MRAs you show me are also feminists, then you’ve just proven my point for me.

I can definitely understand that perspective, and that dovetails with my comment about the competence of the creators being the major barrier to creating a new character.

I do have to say, that definition sounds like an apology for misogyny and an attempt to reclaim male privilege. Men already enjoy far more rights than women, their humanity and personhood has never been under question (unlike women, who have been treated as property until very recently in our society), and issues of…