I think the appropriate comparison would be what the artist would have made from ASCAP royalties for radio play under similar circumstances. To the extent that the artist's cut of revenues, in absolute or relative terms, is substantially less under the streaming model, then I'll accept that they have some reason to…

The A.V. Club…
can be both things!

Well, I'm just a clueless hetero guy, but the two fellows in the picture at the top don't exactly look like Chippendales.

Must be the diabeetus.

I was going to note that "vs." is still the most generally accepted abbreviation for "versus", but that "v." is preferred in the context of legal case names — so is this a clue that this will be the first superhero movie set entirely in a courtroom?

Probably some sort of LBGT#§etc. politics involved.

It was a business trip, so…
^ brags about being able to pad his expense account.

So the subject of Child 44 isn't even the last time this sort of official coverup happened in the USSR.

Once you've taken the step of casting him, you might as well double down.

I would say that a Greek restaurant featuring ABBA music was absurd, but many years ago in Florida I ate at a Mexican restaurant with strolling musicians in full mariachi getup, and gradually realized that they'd played both "Fernando" (okay, Latin American theme at least) and "The Winner Takes It All".

You're thinking of The Sword and the Sorcerer, a different piece of highly entertaining early-'80s cheese.

She did a Random Roles on here some time back, and came across as pretty charming as well.

I put them in a category similar to The Ravonettes, in that I think listening to a whole album or more of them at just one sitting might get a bit monotonous, but shuffling them in with other stuff maximizes the chill-inducing awesomeness of their sound.

I accept that these games are not accurate simulations of guitar playing, but I think they're close enough to convince me that I'd be a bad guitar player.

The conceit of him having somehow modeled the AI on his son is what manages to legitimize the whole conceit of the movie as I see it — There's no fundamental reason you couldn't program a computer to define "victory" in terms where hundreds of millions of deaths amounted to "acceptable losses". It's only by designing…

Though I don't recall it demonstrating much intelligence in the film. It's really just an Artificial Bastard.

Corporal Ferro — She has a pretty badass demise too. Barely a hint of panic when the horrific drooling beast suddenly appears over her shoulder. Just goes for her gun.

I'd consider head transplants as fundamentally different, and fully qualifying as an extension of my (the head's, not the former body owner's) life. If we were talking about sustaining the life of my head or brain indefinitely, I'd accept that as immortality. If we were talking about gradually replacing parts of my…

That's what I think this would come down to — a narcissistic form of reproduction. It's not that I think it would be fundamentally impossible, or that nobody would want to do it. It's just that I basically don't "get" it as doing what it purports to do.

I accept that the unchanging self is an illusion, and that there's ultimately no way of knowing that the "me" of this instant is the same "me" as ten minutes ago (this sometimes comes up as the "Star Trek Transporter Problem" — are you really being "transported", or merely disintegrated and replaced?). Without some…