The characters in the film experience a US dollar, Pulp Fiction, pop songs, Daoism

'Lost at Sea' always scared me much more than 'Lost in Space'. Because of more dangers, like storms and Monsters, as well as the Horrors of the Depths, and of course, it is much more possible to end up there.

I see the primary point of the album at this point to be to flesh out a complete pen and paper roleplaying universe. I would totally run a campaign set in Deltron's 3030.

Over 15 million people served in the armed forces alone during WW2. That was over 10% of the population *just in the military*, not counting the huge numbers of people employed in factories throughout the country specifically involved in the war effort. WW2 was a societal endeavor. I don't think there should be a…

Eliminate corporate tax, but replace it with a more steeply progressive personal income tax that includes capital gains. As long as earnings of a corporation are not divested to stock holders, they go tax free, encouraging re-investment and job creation. You still tax the shit out of the very wealthy when they…

Maybe they are just an exceptionally well versed philosopher struggling with the difficulties of epistemology.

I'm not so sure that they could. Also, is there some running competition on the A.V. Club to see which writer can use the word penultimate most frequently in their articles? Seriously, at this point I want the writers to say second to last just for variety's sake.

Is blaming others for our own inarticulate postings by claiming it is actually their lack of intelligence that is at fault the hip thing now? My sheer whiteness prevents me from keeping up with this whole jazz styled free-form argumentation.

I will step in to agree with you. If the movie was anything, it was the apotheosis of style over substance. While I have read some defenses of the film arguing that was, in essence, the point, I don't really buy it. It was a vapid celebration of nostalgia and the shallowness of youthful interests and obsessions. No…

That was precisely my reaction. I still wish Prometheus was just an hour and a half dedicated to a David story arc. He was by far the most interesting thing about the movie.

Your seasonal benzodiazepineberry harvest was bountiful this year?

I eventually came to the conclusion that every person on the ship had an absolutely crippling case of ADHD such that they couldn't even pay attention to their own motivations for more than a few seconds.

I agree that those are real threats, although the problem of waste storage is dramatically overblown in my opinion. The problem is one of political resistance to storage and the dangers (relatively small IMO) of transporting waste material to a proper disposal site like Yucca mountain, not the dangers of storage…

Wow really? You mean we would actually have to train people in the appropriate engineering and physics skills to run a nuclear power plant? No shit Sherlock. Obviously the market would have to adjust to changing demands, as would our educational system. The point is, we have plenty of very intelligent people *capable*…

Black Swans, highly improbable inventions that can substitute cheap green energy for nuclear power are being born. One or more is likely to prove practical within a year. See the same site for a few examples.

Well, it's not as if there is a shortage of highly skilled unemployed graduates right now.

@avclub-f9dc5c1b905401733b9aaf49c03c071d:disqus  While I would love to give AD that much credit, I don't think that was meant to be a joke about relativity.

In the meantime.

I dunno. Robert Jordan had certain talents as a writer, they just were often overshadowed by the high fantasy aspect of the novels. He was pretty good at characters and quite good at describing cultures. I also like some of the fantasy concepts he threw out, if often not the execution. The magical arms race aspect of…

I go to NYU Law, so if you want to meet up some time or have a group, let me know. I haven't gamed for quite a while, but would like to at least get back in to it on a casual basis.