So she was taking a video of herself and had at least a dozen mishaps during the recording including a “faceplant into an isle”? (I presume you mean aisle, because an island in the middle of your store would be something impressive indeed).

Either you’re exaggerating or this has to be the funniest video ever.…

You were at Disneylad? Is that a new attraction at the Disney properties, something like Chippendales but with Prince Charming and such?

Where are you getting that Amazon is anti-erotica? I searched “Amazon erotica” and it turns out they have an entire category for it subdivided by genre and searchable for things like “vampires”, “bikers”, “rockstars”. “alpha males”, and even “bbw”. Is there something I’m missing, here?

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What I wanna know is if these movies all take place in the same continuity and if so bloody HOW. Because after the first one there’s no way anyone would clone any more dinosaurs for any more parks even if they survived. One, they’d have been sued into so deep bankruptcy their descendants will have evolved into a new…

It almost certainly would have. The station had more than enough TIE fighters to make it impossible. They could have outnumbered the Rebel squadrons ten to one and had plenty to spare. Overconfidence is a common Imperial weakness, and it’s a good thing too because it causes them to leave just enough of a gap in their…

That’s what they did, basically. I’d imagine they needed long enough of a straightaway approach for their targeting computer to lock on, but the trench stretches the entire circumfrence of the Death Star and they didn’t fly but a fraction of it. It’s also possible that the trench had lighter defenses than the surface…

Your experience with enemies that stick to you way too well reminds me of a classic game I played that had the exact opposite problem.

The Commodore 64 had a port of the side-scrolling spy platform shooter Rolling Thunder, and it was a pretty darned good port for an 8-bit conversion of an arcade game which used much…

What the hell’s an aluminum falcon?

When it’s what it takes for the protagonists to succeed in a work of adventure fiction, yes. But the Imperial forces had no way of knowing they were living in a science fiction adventure film :)

Wow, much love for a classic! I spent so many hours on that game, and never got past the maze stage. That game was tough.

I think that’s a function of the Falcon’s hyperdrive being used as a plot device so damned much. Seriously, it was always their escape button and whether or not it worked was at the core of at least one entire film. I doubt it was unable to jump from a dead stop if everything else we ever saw could, and I don’t…

This is open theocracy by a political party that has completely sold out to the religious right, and it cannot and should not survive a court challenge as it’s so blatantly unconstitutional it’s not even funny.

They didn’t show a flyaround view in the films, there may not even have been a fully spherical model built for filming. There are many sources in print however that show schematics and such, and they show a largely hollow sphere whose only external features of significant size are the equatorial trench and the dish…

“I’d rather live in a more rural plot where I can grow my own organic produce, and not have to hear my neighbors doing, well, anything at all. I also like going outside and breathing the nice fresh non-polluted air. I really don’t think that’s such a crazy thing to want in life.”

It wasn’t all that unprotected. For one, the equatorial trench that led to it had turbolaser turrets, and the Death Star itself had enough TIE fighters to repel any group of assault fighters. And the shot to kill was actually impossible. At least one pilot made a complete attack run and put torpedoes on target with…

Because the Death Star was basically a giant reactor hooked to a gun and engines. It wasn’t a solid ball, there was a spherical shell around the gun / engine / framework structure a few hundred meters thick at most, the rest of it was hollow. The reactor and engines probably outweighed everything else combined.

In my experience, the herbal carb blockers are actually effective. I lost quite a bit of weight using them before and I intend to go back on them and do it again. Of course, once I stopped them I gained the weight back so it’s not a magic cure but they definitely worked for me. Make sure you get the ones that say they…

I think most people missed this in the mountain of replies, but I wrote a blog post to supplement what I had to say below, and those who would like to continue the discussion are invited to read and comment there, please.

It seill seems like paradise to me. I like my woods bright and daylit (and easily reachable by simple travel) and my cities dark, overbuilt, and neon-drenched. To me the ideal way for humans to live is to build multi-level high-rise cities with high population density and pretty much arcology-style living, with parks…