Donkey Kong was a successful game, sure, but a huge cultural phenomenon second only to Pac-Man in fame and recognition? Having been an arcade gamer in that era I would say that’s a stretch. Before Mario hit it huge with Super Mario for the NES, DK was just one among a number of big name successful games and Nintendo…

If that’s the case they should be shut down. I write fanfiction, and rule number one is that you cannot make money on it, period, you can’t collect a dime. All fanworks have to be that way, or else it is profiting on someone else’s IP. The most someone should be able to take from fan work is the following one gets…

I don’t get how people haven’t figured out how this works, and gotten around it.

1) Develop it anonymously, use a psuedonym and cover your digital tracks so no one knows your IRL identity and thus cannot sue you, and

2) Put it on the web and filesharing sites and spread it everywhere, for free.

How hard is that to…

Well to be honest period sex is a pretty niche thing, liable to squick more fans than it attracts, so I suppose you’re right they probably shouldn’t have scenes of it.

Literally that means “I’m slowly becoming slow!”. Which is funny.

That TA is just plain beautiful, full stop. No bizarre ambiguity about it, that is a flat out gorgeous piece of machinery.

It’s not rice, it’s pure disco-era cheese.

My gods... I can see the original 300z in the doors, t-top roof and windshield... that poor thing must be in hell thinking that one day long ago it was a respectable sports car. If I were a multi-millionaire with money to burn, I think I’d buy the miserable bastard and have it crushed just to put it out of it’s…

I always hated that front end, it’s just awful. Everything else about the car I loved but that nose was just hideous even by outlandish disco-era standards.

This thing is so amazingly 70s... for those of us of a certain age stuff like this looks both beautiful and hideous as childhood nostalgia wars with common sense. It’s a bizzarre love-hate thing.

They’re other ships of the same design line, most of them larger than the Tyderium-type. Presumably they’re made by the same company that made the shuttles seen in Jedi and also the T-16 Skyhopper which seems to also share design elements. You might as well be asking why BMW makes a 3 series, 5 series, 7 series, etc…

It’s very much a cross between this and a snowspeeder from ESB. And considering the Buck Rogers ship is also a MacQuarrie design, it fits. He did all the designs for Star Wars, Buck Rogers, and original Battlestar Galactica, which is a major reason why the basic technology style seems similar across all three…

No need for heat shielding when:

* They don’t have to conserve limited fuel from weak rocket engines and thus don’t have any need to utilize orbital mechanics that require short burns to slow down just enough to come down in a parabolic arc at near orbital velocity. They have more than enough fuel and power to just…

The trope is rather out of hand, though as you said it’s more acceptable to some degree in comedy but really it’s overstayed it’s welcome in my opinion.

The concept was done to death long ago, and received what I’d call a death blow via extreme parody in Bludgeoning Angel Dokoru-chan. It depicted one of these…

I wish someone would come up with a vaccine against autism just to watch these morons heads explode.

I enjoyed this series when I watched it a few years ago. One of the things that sticks out to me still is an amusing part where they interview the voice actresses and one of them mentions how she had a challenge memorizing all the technical terms like “heel to toe shift” and “put it in second gear”. If that’s…

Because I disagree with a company’s policy doctrine, make a critique of it, and feel legal action should be taken to curtail it (though I’m not in a position to take such action myself) that means I’m “whining”? Huh. And here I thought it was called posting discussion feedback in a comments section on the topic at…

Because I wasn’t dumb enough to buy a locked down, inferior product I was not harmed by this policy and thus I don’t have standing to sue. However, I agree with you that someone should do so.

“Don’t buy their products” is not enough of an remedy when consumer rights under the law are being violated.

No, Apple has a right to control what they host in their own software store but NOT what a user can and cannot install and run on their own machine they bought and paid for. The law is clear on this, and it’s frankly amazing Apple has gotten away with it as long as they have.