Penny Arcade made that Assassin’s Creed joke a year ago.

Leave it to Penny Arcade to throw in a random Twilight Zone reference for no reason.

I was going to say how much I agree with Nerfnow, but then I got interrupted

yup. It truly boggles my mind. I spent the last 15 years working non-profits and I’ve been at a tech company the past year and it’s....so stupid. It’s mind boggling how little emphasis is placed on actually making a truly good and important product. All the focus is expanding the product and adding more features and…

I’ll never understand the wildly arbitrary and ever changing metrics by which mega corporations define “success”.

I don’t care about football (or really any sport), but I am 100% on board with Jason’s earnest NFL recaps and Kirk and Maddy’s not-quite earnest participation in them.

What is interesting is that Cold Spring Harbor Labs was ground zero in the eugenics movement. It housed the Eugenics Records Office:

I’m curious as to whether any of the US networks have ever tried to lure Graham Norton away from the BBC. It’s not just Graham as an interviewer, but also the format of the show, which often puts Hollywood A-listers alongside British comedians, for some fantastic moments.

Skrull

if Franklin had been alive it would have undoubtedly been given to Crick, Franklin, Watkins and Wilkins

What the fuck does his views on race have to do with his past scientific achievement? Fuck this nonsense.  All of this finger waving, socio-cultural mom scolding bullshit needs to stop.

I guess I shouldn’t be a cod and assume people don’t know this, but if you aren’t quite certain where that header image is from, it’s from a deleted scene from The Avengers.

As an aside, I think you paint the situation around the famous crystallography image #51 unfairly. Watson and Crick followed the norm and the established protocol— they got permission from the person who’s ability it was to grant permission. They followed proper attribution and citation practice and there was nothing…

Conan is still king.

I like him in almost everything except his talk show host persona.

Yeah, but you have to get through Jimmy Fallon’s weird, cloying interview persona to see it. He seems nice but also...hnngugh *shudder*.

I think its really cool. Good luck, Commanders.

I think they learned their lesson with the Thargoid hyperdiction of The Gnosis; Having Thargoids attack a group of non-combat vessels is just unsporting. (Even if it is accurate.*)

How much you want to bet the devs are all like, “and at this point, drop a Thargoid here. You know, just to spice this thing up?”

This is a great way to bring the community together. I tried to get into Elite but I’m not elite enough. I just couldn’t get a feel for it to keep my interest. It’s a vast universe with so many deep systems; too much for me to pick up at this stage of life.