It's kind of arguable. Most definitions of "Gen X" say you have to be born before 1980. Hollywood being Hollywood where high schoolers are played by twenty-somethings, certainly the actors were born before 1980, but the characters may or may not have given they were high schoolers in 1996.

"They had a thing against robots and artificial intelligence in the early 21st century. 9 times out of 10, whenever one was portrayed, it ended up killing somebody or trying to take over the world".

That's a long standing debate in the geek community. The argument for the hard g is that it makes sense given that g stands for "graphics". The argument for the soft g is that the creator of the format originally picked the name in part as a pun referring to the peanut butter.

Fury Road was basically Miller's The Road Warrior with a bigger budget. I happened to like both movies, but I was a bit surprised how Fury Road was seen as more than an enjoyable B-movie.

I'd blame the influence of Frank Miller. Thanks to him, current versions of Batman lack the traditional hands with metallic nails, glowing red eyes, fire breathing, and the power to leap tremendous distances.

By my standards, Austin is/was a big city — it had hundreds of thousands of people even then, as opposed to places where the population was at most a thousand. To give an idea of where I grew up in the Midwest, we had a "party line" — in the 1970s! That's a phone line that you share with your neighbors — before making…

Exactly. And people join and leave that target over time.

It was stated first season when someone calls him Mr. Peanutbutter:

Definately "Princess Carolyn". Also, like her fellow feline "Meow Meow Fuzzyface", she has the sort of ridiculous multi word name that you might give an actual cat.

Considering that we live in a world in which practically every successful movie of the 1980s (and even into the 1990s recently) has been remade/rebooted or is planned to be, I say Iron Man will be rebooted by 2025 at the latest. The audience is fickle, and above all *young*.

In a lot of ways Diane reminds me of Michael Bluth on Arrested Development. In the beginning you think they are the voice of reason because they seem saner and better than the people around them, but as time goes on you realize they are broken as well, just not as in an immediately apparent fashion.

The Romans used to adopt adults as a way to make them legal heirs. Augustus was the adopted (as an adult) son of Julius Caesar and he in turn adopted Tiberius.

And then I started wanting to read it on my own. So I remember going on marches and sitting on railroad tracks when we were bombing the contras.

Can we get back to Middle-Aged Dystopian novels like 1984?

To be fair, the getting cancer around government labs isn't just "weird science" but was a real thing to people who lived in places like Oak Ridge Tennessee during the Cold War. They weren't always so good about keeping radioactive waste out of the water tables.

I mean, what is the asteroid made of to give enough gravity that he can stand and walk, right?

Germany had frigging Carl Gauss complete with the normal curve and its equation on the ten mark note for a while. You just don't get any geekier than that.

Can you imagine what sort of database schema they must have in the Bojack universe? Half those fields are only relevant to horses — presumably they would need a set of specialized fields for every species.

I find it annoying too, but I wonder if it is really ineptness or a stylized delivery that I just don't like. Eddie Izzard kind of did that whole trailing off "And so…" thing as well which bugged me even though I liked a lot of his jokes.

Spotted the Canadian. While Le petit prince is universally taught, Le chandail de hockey is unknown outside Canada.