That’s part of the problem, they’re not SUPPOSED to be 80s movies at all. They are throwbacks to the pulp serials of the 1930s and are supposed to have that feel. That’s why Skull worked though most people didn’t seem to get it, it was a throwback as well but to the 50s cheesy B-movie sci fi pulp of the era Indy would…

So now we know it’s a trap. Thanks, Admiral Ackbar!

It was like the producers read a review of Spock’s Brain that said “well, on the bright side at least we will probably never see an episode worse than this one” and said “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED”.

You said pretty much exactly what I would have, and I think you are correct. Parallel processing is the key, I think. Imagine a computer processor with enough capability to completely handle all the functions of a brain in a compact form, say the neural net processor the Terminators use. It is slaved to your brain as…

If that’s all he knows at 13 then he is seriously lagging the rest of the population at a similar age.

Kids can handle way more than worrywart adults think, and they will seek out the most extreme stuff they can get their hands on in part because it’s forbidden and in part because youth is inherently boundary pushing and thrill seeking. We all went through that phase and we survived it just fine. Bubble wrapping kids…

The blueprints for the Mach 5 are in the windshield.

Stop being so demento-phobic!

I vaguely Rekall another movie on the subject of memory modification that for some strange reason wasn’t mentioned.

Perhaps the most important thing to know is that 90% of the above is retconned in, tacked on nonsense that has nothing to do with the character Louise Simonson created. That Apocalypse was one of the best villains ever put to the comics page, and could have been X-Factor’s answer to Magneto or Doctor Doom —a villain…

He hadn’t been written yet.

Holy crap I never knew this... nor that it was Jim Lee that caused him to quit. I always thought it was Bob Harras who forced him and Louise Simonson out to promote Lee and Liefeld as writers in addition to their art duties because they were such hot commodities. I do know Claremont had a major issue with Harras…

The Headmen were weird at best. And borderline jokes, not even taken seriously by their own books. I remember their old Marvel Universe Handbook entry where it says that “Realizing that minor mystic powers, the strength of a gorilla and a plastic head were insufficient to secure world conquest, they sought means to…

“does not conflict with the fist”

That is an awesomely epic typo :D

Let me get this straight. We can’t even truly SEE planets with any type of resolution or clarity, mostly we rely on circumstantial evidence like stellar gravity wobble and the closest we have to direct observation is when we get a black dot moving across a star so we know hey, there’s a body there in orbit! So that’s…

really not sure how well the whole notion of straight-up magic is going to mesh with the rest of the MCU

To be fair, they got that expression out of Rickman by dropping his ass for real when he wasn’t expecting it. That “oh shit” look is real.

In a very real way it IS a gun and that’s why it’s shaped the way it is, form following function. As to the risk of getting shot by a cop, that’s a risk with a handgun as well and rather a different topic to what we were talking about. The post I replied to had you saying “don’t bring a Taser to a gunfight” and my…

I’m sure I could search something up, but I remember the facts quite well as they were cited in one of my favorite games of all time Cyberpunk 2020. They were FBI statistics they’d used to help craft the combat system in the game. Mike Pondsmith is the author, Friday Night Firefight is the combat system. I’m sure…

If the person is far away, chances are they’re not going to be able to hit you anyhow. Most firefights with handguns between civilians take place at very close range, and most shots miss. Add the fact that a person can take multiple gunshots, even fatal ones, and still take between five and ten minutes to drop while a…