I’ve long known about the early Tempest build, and I think Polybius was nothing more than a limited field playtest. The vertigo it induced in some players plus seeing unknown men collecting data from the machines (which had to be done in person back then, there was no networking) and conducting interviews sparked the…

This isn’t about Colin Kaepernick either. And it certainly isn’t why he doesn’t have a starting quarterback position. His numbers and lack of ability to adapt to playing a regular pocket passing style without the read-option to rely on is why he’s not starting anywhere. Let’s not get it twisted.

Today, the entire…

Isn’t it odd for half-Japanese to use a Hawaiian term rather than the Nihongo term “hafu”?

I’m not sure exactly how an actor could “represent” a white russian at all, let alone “well”... I mean what, would he need to accurately convey the correct balance between cream, vodka, and Kahlua? Would the appropriate glassware costuming be important? I’m trying to figure out how this would work.

Let me get this straight. This is a PUBLIC BROADCASTING network, aka those people who depend entirely on begging the public for money so they can stay in operation. And they’re really going to sue someone as beloved as Levar Burton? That level of bad PR has got to be lethal to their donation campaigns.

For that matter,…

I said when I first heard about this, it’s not much good to get Paul George if you don’t have or aren’t able to get John Ringo to complete the set.

No, he said he bribed women with drugs for sex. Read it again.

I’m not saying that he didn’t do what he was accused of, I’m not a juror and I don’t get to decide that. But he didn’t make a confession in 2005.

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…