Going by monetary value alone, I imagine that 3 flying aircraft carriers cost a crapload more money than that one building, so I'll concede Winter Soldier on that one.

I might have to watch MoS again someday. I know I enjoyed it while I was watching it, but the massive amount of criticism it gets (a lot of which I can't really argue much against) has made me think of it as not very good. Maybe I'll give it another shot before Batman v. Superman and see if I don't change my mind…

That's a good point, and weren't there 2 of them on opposite sides of the Earth? I think Superman is getting a bad rap for destroying all those buildings—Zod's machines probably did a lot more damage.

Considerably less than Metropolis anyway. Otherwise it'd be called "Reasonably-large-city-ville."

Wasn't the primary location of destruction in Man of Steel actually Metropolis? I'm pretty sure Smallville doesn't contain countless buildings. This whole infographic is suspect!

These games all sound awesome. Mrs. CleverGuy and I used to play board games and card games together all the time, but we haven't had as much free time since the little one came along. I need to make some friends to have game nights with.

Foo Fighters have never been my favorite band, but I've also never heard a Foo Fighters song that I didn't like. From interviews and stories I've heard, Grohl really seems like the kind of dude who just enjoys playing music. I imagine that if I had any real musical talent and happened to run into Grohl at a bar or…

I think that's maybe the reason it stuck in my head. The explanation that he gives is that when he's not on a case his mind needs something to occupy itself. So he takes cocaine. And it's presented as a minor annoyance to Watson not a crippling addiction. Not what you expect from a drug user in fiction today.

I dunno, as a casual Holmes fan myself (ie, I've read all Doyle's original stories at least once, though I wouldn't consider myself a fanatic), I was sort of surprised to see that the cocaine habit is only actually mentioned twice. So it definitely stuck in my head.

You're not wrong. But Holmes' brand of deductive reasoning (actually not deductive at all of course) would discount a lot of that hugely improbable stuff simply because it's never happened before. Also, I think it's fair to say that the quote is true, but there's a step missing where you figure out which of the…

There's a line from Star Trek where Spock says "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however implausible, must be true" and attributes it to "an ancestor" of his. Some people think that must mean that Spock is somehow related to Holmes, but I always thought it obvious that he's actually related to…

First Holmes story I read was The Blue Carbuncle, as part of a school assignment in the 5th grade or so. A few years later I found an old copy of the complete Holmes stories that had no cover on my parents' bookshelf and read the whole thing. While I greatly enjoyed every story, it always sort of bugged me that as a…

The walls in City were totally visible. That was kind of the whole set-up—they built literal walls around most of Gotham to make it a giant prison-city.

I thoroughly enjoyed both Asylum and City, and I'm slowly working my way through Origins, and enjoying that one too. I get what you're saying about the open-ness of City, but I don't think it distracted too much. Plus after you finish the story, you can keep playing to get to all the side quests, which I thought was…

So does this descriptively named "Sealed Air Corp." have some kind of monopoly on the bubble wrap production industry? I thought there were laws against that sort of thing.

Those things are infuriating, aren't they?

You got it. 'Til I was 12 anyway, then we moved to Peabody.

Wow, I just realized that I'm completely out of touch with current music. When did that happen? I think I only know one band on this entire list. But good to see some love for the Decemberists, that album is wicked good.

By the year 2345 the population of earth will have given up the use of money. So this kind of thing won't happen anymore. At least according to Roddenberry.

I think the 400-year time difference sort of tempers that tragedy though. I don't the comparison to the Holocaust is really accurate either; after all, if i remember right the number of people who were actually killed was fairly low (i wanna say less than a dozen, but I'm not 100% sure). In any case, it doesn't…