Ah, yes, trickle down ecology. There are rain makers and rain takers.

The Third Reich was built on the back of the Weimar, and was pretty quickly converted into the East and West Germanies. The "Empire" was just a new set of leaders atop the same old Republic structure that had been there for centuries. Once Palpatine's influence was shaken, it would be reasonable to expect the…

Basically, the idea is that "quantum matter" is any compound or structure like the graphene plane or Na3Bi that exhibits behaviors that are best or only explained through QM. It's anything that extrapolates or exhibits quantum mechanical properties at a more macro level.

Actually, you seem to have that backwards, the "once per contest" idea would have each round work like a standard encounter, with daily powers only available once per power per day per character, which is standard. Per round or even per respawn would greatly inflate the daily power availability and warp the format.

A bit, though to be fair, I wasn't addressing everything at you directly. When it comes to the 4E detractors, I try to separate the arguments of taste from those of substance. If people don't like it, that's their prerogative. However, when there are discussions of factors that get into the realm of facts, that's…

"My best guess would be that they can't duplicate the technology cheaply enough yet."

"instead of worrying about new players (who might need "easier" versions of the rules), they should take better care of the existing players."

It would make more sense that Depp plays some sort of Loki-like magical trickster demon or the like. Dormammu perhaps? It would be smart for their "lady button" hitting to have the potential of Hiddleston and Depp being rival villains at some point.

Clearly, the smashing of the urn is akin to the desire to escape from the choking confines of the womb. Even in death, misogyny finds a way.

There's definitely some bleed back into the '70s as well. I think the general trend of Almost Human is a big callback to various sci-fi stories from the 1970s and 1980s, with most episodes feeling a lot like a tight version of some B movie brought to life with some modern sensibilities. There are universal elements,…

"Do you really consider Kennex to be in the same league of silliness as depicted by Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, JCVD, etc..? He's not leaping around, tumbling through hails of bullets, and spraying multiple assailants with uncanny accuracy. He even lets Dorian swallow bullets for him."

That doesn't have any superfluous 'e's though. Also, ladies on the internet.

You're gonna get dropped...

So... gaye doge?

In China, the decimal value for "boobies" also means "opportunititties".

HomOS has been iterating various versions for hundreds of thousands of years, and there are still all sorts of system faults that pop up. We won't be sullying the perfection of biological creation to move into a digital framework. That said, I don't like the idea of my mental processes being managed by committee.

To be fair, if they live in command line, the mouse is unessential. But that's not particularly common either.

Yup. The entire point of the film was to show Tony and the audience that the real Iron Man isn't some form of his suit, but the genius behind and within them.

Highly unlikely. Unless we're catching a glimpse of a macro-engineering civilization, chances are that anything artificial will be so small in scale to the planets that we'll need several orders of magnitude in resolution on these targets to have any chance at spotting stuff like artificial satellites.

Totally. It would be good to get secondary confirmation on some of the weirder findings with the hot Jupiters and things. I'm still expecting some of those will end up being several smaller planets in a resonant orbital structure that would look like a single larger planet when not viewed with a sufficiently high…