*Cover of "Girl from Ipanema" is interrupted twenty seconds in to remind you that your call is important to us*

ALL GLORY TO THE MOFROE

Do that. I liked it the first time I saw it, and I can't believe how much it improves with every subsequent viewing.

And that perfect casting, just like the other best thing about the film, was a financial accident. For once, great art was born of monetary interests.

Pass me the speech center of the brain!

Probably unnecessary explanation of joke, just in case: the Westboro Baptist Church once claimed that God was killing US personnel in Iraq for supporting a country that tolerates gays.

He was bragging about how fast his ship was. Distance per unit time is how everyone everywhere measures speed.

And IED's. Don't forget God punishing us with IED's.

And here I thought I was the only one who thought it odd that the Kessel Run is measured in parsecs, a unit explicitly based on Earth's orbital radius. I feel so much less alone now.

Ye gods, you're good at this.

And she attempted suicide on account of the shame and guilt, but that hard-nosed vigilante seagull wouldn't let her take the easy way out?

Oh man, you just obliquely reminded me of the railway rifle from Fallout 3 and its endlessly wonderful I-win-and-your-head-is-nailed-to-a-wall train whistle sound.

Me being a mechanical-stuff geek, Jensen's arms break my willful suspension of disbelief. As much as I like watching the hand-o-copter for its delightful absurdity, I can't convince myself that all that articulation is possible with a rigid arm sword in the middle. But yeah, that one's always a ball to watch.

The sniper rifle in Crysis makes the usual loud bang, but it echoes for a few seconds after every shot. I loved that— it made every bullet feel as meaningful as a half-inch sniper round should be, even if distant enemies ignored it entirely.

I musht be shix inshesh taller.

That was my immediate thought too. It gives more freedom to businesses, i.e. the freedom to be goddamn idiots and divert their would-be customers' money to more deserving capitalist organizations. I doubt he'd have anything but contempt for any business that took advantage of it, but I imagine he'd support giving…

Pretty much. Fuckwit Pizza (as mentioned earlier by @muwarr90:disqus) might be riding high on bigot goodwill now, but they'll be bankrupt soon enough.

What species of ant, and is the glass tempered?

Oh, absolutely. I'm wholly in favor of responsible harvest as a population control measure where appropriate. My former boss, though, was clearly in it for the fun of shooting stuff— none of his quarry was overpopulated, certainly not the sage grouse.

I love how the Robot Mafia always hit all the expected beats without ever saying anything expected.