The Chinese were behind this too? Those sneaky bastards!

Dude you copied my English!
Not pony tails or… goblin tails? No.

Flaws? Naw, It's Quick-Fingered Preservation
Those flaws sound exactly why I began to hate RTSes after a while. It treats modern combat as though it was the formless, medieval "swarm on that dude" style of warfare. No formations, just dumb blobs. Weird that there aren't unit orders after all this time. Maybe they…

That's it…
The Willenium is officially over.

Being a kid of the 70's and 80's, I had trouble not imagining Teela as captain of the Eternian guard.

Glad to be of service, p4limpsest. That moment in the Simpsons episode was damned funny. It was sort of an outgrowth of a discussion Margaret Atwood was having on alternative forms for the word squee.

Please be exactly the movie I don't know what you're going to be yet
Squee?

Puritans vs. Snow Leopards
Ah, Christ.

Done.
All they had to do was flip that red switch on his control panel and he'd stop breathing.

Jolly Ringworld
I had a similar reaction to Niven's Ringworld. I guess this is his most well-known work, but I liked the ideas and even the characters to some extent, but felt frustrated by the way the plot seemed there only because without it everyone would sit around staring at the ceiling. And the plot felt about…

Hate to pee on the dungeon wall, but
Enough playthroughs on Desktop Dungeons after I'd unlocked most things, though, and I felt more self-loathing than anything for firing it up again. Some of the class/dungeon combinations are slogs and often doomed to failure through bad combinations. As much as I enjoy a good…

Finally!
Only canon slash fiction from now on!

"I wish I never saw your building!!"
For an interesting counterpoint, try watching the Rand-penned Fountainhead, with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal.

Maybe some of his willingness to be open about his thoughts was intrinsic, but I don't think he sought fame so much as he sought a way to make an impact talking about stuff you didn't hear about normally that still mattered, and were still real.

Missing Stories
That was something I believe in too, or took to heart after he said it, I'm not sure. That the missing history is the history of the rest of us. Not the focal points who have everybody's attention, but the rest.

I hope he found some measure of happiness
What little interaction I had with the guy he seemed just as straightforward as he does in his work. Thoughtful, a bit morose, thinking about how to make ends meet, a bit of a grim sense of humor.

TYPICAL!
Pfft. We help him, he tells us we're doing it wrong and takes control.

Puts on gravestone hat
Heart failure.

Finally
I've not bought them because of the lack of full presenation. I didn't realize even the prospect of an American full release was still languishing like this.

The Art of Avoiding Cognitive Dissonance
It's wearying when theoretical or moral arguments are packed in with factual ones to try to bolster the case. All it does is make the argument weak. At least it wasn't one of the blogger favorites of simply throwing out the words sexist or racist with a list of maybes and…