I understand your passion for wanting to eliminate the whole program. I’m just not sure how I feel about doing that to the players.

This is where the expanded playoff spots undermine the waiver deadline.

Could you give a bit more detail about “simultaneous action planning”?

I recommend checking out Space Cadet: Dice Duel if you don’t like the engineer. It’s a similar “bicker with your teammates and try to coordinate jobs” but with dice as the gating mechanism instead of an engineer. Maybe a bit more gamer-y and bit less party-chaos.

so it’s kinda like NEXTWAVE without being so offensive they’ll have to retcon it out of existence.

I hate that graphic so much I want Kevin Costner to update his rant in Bull Durham to denounce it!

A popular vote is what gave us Trump.

I, like most of us commenters on io9, have no class.

I’m no expert on the data, but my instincts tell me people who would have used the library will simply torrent, not buy.

That is, the Constitution doesn’t say the people don’t have the right to vote, and therefore they have the right to vote.

Uplift sequels are certainly oddities - the first one didn’t even make the Hugo shortlist! (and I really do need to read that trilogy. Funny that I’ve read 4 or 5 other works from Brin, but not the “big one”.)

What’s interesting is the mix of the best novel nominees....

I think it’s tough to categorize series since there are so many degrees of connection.

I assume the man is part of performance art and we’re all being tricked into caring about a hole in the ground.

The hole is not art.

Come back when Ghostbusters is 322 years old and been produced by every theater in the civilized world.  :)

Kylo Ren’s design, and the particular way in which he’s shot and framed

He has a friend who said this. He completely (but wrongly) believes his friend is named “Jim”.

As my last trip to jury duty reminded me (wherein I came very close to serving on a 6-8 week long medical malpractice trial)...

One thing Amazon has going for it, it’s generally difficult to be wrongly accused of shoplifting there.