My wife and I called them “assplosions.”

Yes, agreed. They played different roles, but Vader’s was simpler, at least in ANH. He was faceless terror. A bogeyman, and that’s it. Simple, but perfect for his role in the film. Ren is layered, flawed, an actual person. Which I feel is still perfect for his role in this film. People keep trying to compare him to…

Was going to say almost exactly what you did. I had a conversation this morning with a co-worker that said he was too much of a “pussy” as well. It’s such a weird over-simplification to me. I know a lot of people wanted this to be a more self contained film instead of a set up for following movies, but it just isn’t,…

Iruga did a pretty good job of explaining it, but I’ll add that what they mean by it being free to anyone with an Xbox One applies to the Backwards Compatibility service itself. You don’t have to pay for the ABILITY to play 360 games. But you still have to own/buy the games.

This. Remember Rage? That was a super fun game, but was really short and not much happened during the course of the game. I still payed $60 for it, and I don’t immediately remember anyone crying about it. Vanilla Destiny wasn’t great. But it was good and it kept us playing long enough to get great, and that’s fine…

I’ve had two. My first completely shit the bed. Wouldn’t play Blu-Rays, wouldn’t detect there was a game in the drive, wouldn’t wake from sleep at times, randomly dimmed the display and wouldn’t come back up without a hard reset, dropped my internet connection (even though it’s hardwired with an ethernet cable) … One…

Can I just take a break from comics now? I think I’m going to take a break from comics now.

YES. The Thanonauts (death travelers). I loved that idea. I also really liked how that tied into the grimoire cards that reference the beginning of the Exo’s sentience. How they all seem to vaguely remember being mindless battle droids and the dark tower where they were manufactured. Dig it.

Oh man, I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this. When the road is empty, I hit every apex I can find, within the speed limit, in my wife’s crappy Malibu. Gotta have some fun on my way home or I get road hypnosis.

Your wife and my wife would be friends.

Maybe if the last time you saw Aquaman was 1970. Since then, he’s had a bit of a facelift.

Zactly.

I am you and you are me. Gamer dads unite.

So many times this. “Um, well, are you asking for my favorite vintage car? Modern? If vintage, do you mean older than 20? 30? 40? 50? American? Japanese? European? One offs? Production? Race? Supercars? Hypercars? Daily drivers? Two seaters? 4? 5? Coupe? Wagon? WHAT ARE YOU ASKING ME? I HAVE FAVORITES IN ALL OF THOSE.”

So, confession time: I dig smoked taillights. I’ve never had it done on my own cars, but I kinda split the difference between wanting to look cool and wanting to not get rear ended. That is to say, if I ever did it, it would be Extremely light. Enough to VERY LIGHTLY tone down the bright colors, not enough to make…

I am NOT crying … No, yeah, I’m totally crying.

“… long after the events of the original trilogy.”

I’m going to be a completely pedantic asshole here, but it’s not a personal diss to you. Cool? Here goes: I don’t think a society that produced thousands of fully artificially intelligent war machines, terraformed Mercury and Venus, discovered super-luminal interplanetary space travel, antigravity, and programable…

Precisely. I get it, popular opinion sells books. I don’t mind changes, I just want them to be a little more subtle and thoughtful. I’m not naive enough to say changing his power set is the issue on its own; his powers have changed drastically roughly every decade or so, and he’s been de-powered before. I just wish…

There’s not much more to say, I completely agree. Though on the xenophobia point, Birthright even nails that quite effectively, without resorting to making me worry that Supes is gonna get shanked by a redneck in an alley. I respect the “overpowered and uninteresting” thing. I get it. I just can’t bring myself to…