You mean this old sentiment:

I’m generally glad most of my youthful indiscretions weren’t immortalized on Facebook. :)

It means most people in business and finance don’t actually know anything about history.

“I love the R.O.B. It’s so bad.”

That technology exists: it’s called Facebook.* Might not work for memories prior to 2006, though. :-) Though it has its problems as well.

The full moral is: Even if you’re looking California, you might be feeling Minnesota.

I’m tearing up reading this comment thread!

The Spot Abides.

It happens.

Most Jocks end up working for nerds, right?

My concern is that this premise could end up having the opposite effect. Matriarchies are, more often than not, portrayed as a bad thing in genre fiction.

When did all our heroes get on the payroll of the Establishment? Why can’t he work for an independent institution like in the original series?

Growing up, my local library always had D&D books in the collection. They did often “grow legs”, but was it gamers stealing them, or people objecting to the material, or was it just usual attrition (e.g. patron drops book in bathtub)? I never knew.

Eh, this is the show that had late 16th century English colonists speaking a dialect of English from three centuries prior, so it’s as good an explanation as any.

Why does the art style of that “Sumerian tablet” look more like a late medieval woodcut?

Thank G-d It’s the Sabbath. Try our lunch menu!

Every character in the book who wasn’t Watney felt pretty flat to me. I think I’ll end up liking the movie more than the book based on those featurettes they released: in those brief clips, the actors already embodied their roles with more personality than they ever had in the book.

“No Such Agency”, indeed. :-)

Two best hits from an online anagram solver:

Maybe. To continue the NSA metaphor, the NSA wasn’t really well-known to the general public before the early days of the public Internet. So SHIELD was probably pretty low-key until the sudden public awareness of superheroes in the MCU post-Iron Man thurst them into the spotlight.