Knowing the ignominious end doesn’t seem to have been a problem for that Clone Wars cartoon, which always struck me as the most pointless show ever. Why watch a show dramatising the exploits of heroes in a war where everyone on both sides were puppets dancing to the same tune and were all summarily executed at the…

Whenever I see USMNT written out, the first thing that comes into my head is Ninja Turtles...

I think for this to be commercially viable, it will need to work like Netflix - you don’t pay for individual games, but simply subscribe to the service and are able to play all games available on the service at any given time.

Tony Blair was never a head of state. Britain’s head of state is the queen.

Is Full Metal Jacket on there? I don’t see it.

We’re not talking about an alien with four smaller ones, we’re talking about an alien with 10 that are at least equal sized, and a skull like swiss cheese. The picture is at the top in case you missed it.

I think Wheel of Time will need truncating to make it watchable. And also the characters will all need replacing with ones that are actually remotely likeable.

Fanfic. Pass.

The vulnerability of eyes is such that severe injuries to them tend to result in death without advanced medical care, so how the system degrades is less important than how likely it is to be injured in the first place. Having only two vulnerable points (and eyes are basically holes in the skull leading directly to the…

Then you assume wrong. Time isn’t the issue here.

A pair of simple infrared sensing organs isn’t remotely in the same ballpark as four extra pairs of eyeballs.

You have to also consider all the reasons NOT to have extra eyes. We only have two for a very good reason - eyes are vulnerable and extremely expensive to operate (the human brain uses up 20% of our energy intake operating only two), and with more than two eyes its a case of diminishing returns in terms of improvement…

Some false equivalencies here. The British monarchy is not remotely comparable to a dictatorship, for instance. It has no power and only continues to exist by popular consent.

Lol at all the butthurt 80s kids. The original isn’t as good as you remember.

God I miss the days when arcade machines were everywhere, in every pub, hotel, sports centre... When I was 8, my parents tricked me into learning to swim, because there was an arcade machine at the pool that I always wanted to play. I can’t even remember what game it was, some vertical shmup, but I played it every…

Well, I sure am glad my childhood was in the late 80s and early 90s before Lego had to resort to this nonsense.

Actually, we’re assuming they don’t have the same technology, because it won’t work on their planet.

Whether you like them or not, the one thing they absolutely were not, is great adaptations. Have you ever even read the Hobbit?

Paramount couldn’t do shit.

You could do this with old tabletop RPGs as well. The reason nobody did is because it’s a stupid idea.