Hell, it made no sense in-universe. WTF would a slave woman on a desert planet need a Protocol Droid who’s only real purpose is translating languages and is otherwise a clumsy useless walking paperweight.

Honestly, it feels like it’s been a decade since Letterman quit.

I thought I read some explanation from the EU or some other piece of Star Wars media that C3PO was a basically an old protocol droid that fell into disrepair and was found and just rebuilt by young Anakin rather than something he made himself. Which would make a little more sense then what sort of ended up in TPM,…

I feel sorry for Mel, who produced an absolute masterpiece at his first attempt*! After that, it’s a slow decline in quality until High Anxiety, at which point it’s a steep drop into the toilet.

This can only end one way...

I was so hoping for the LA Noire sequel Shanghai, Whore of the Orient. Too bad it never got made. From Tin Tin to an old Marine writer John Thomason I’ve been interested in the prewar Shanghai setting. My mother was born in the French part of the bund.

Does Disco World feature characters from Vinyl or The Deuce? There would presumably be rights issues for The Get Down.

Couldn’t Walton World be Bill Walton World?

Disco World would be wonderful.

When you get right down to it, Ford was just the kind of shitty DM that likes to railroad the PCs through his carefully orchestrated campaigns.

Show of hands, who would totally be down with somebody making a sandbox game set during colonial India? I know I would (or hell, any point in Indian history would be nice). Also, it’s ironic that the woman ran from one kind of Indians and ran into another kind of Indians.

There’s even a throwaway line where one of Nixon’s aides points out that the dog might like him better if he calls it by its actual name, King Timahoe. (Which was the real-life name of the Irish setter Nixon had at the time.)

Of course not. By then he would be collecting his pension and chasing squirrels at an unnamed relative’s upstate farm.

They should honour her by naming some kind of town feature in the capitol after her. Like a square, or a courtyard. Something along those lines.

Ha! Or since it’s hockey, maybe they’d be psyched to have some Russian blood on the team.

Its not nearly as consistent, but the best episodes of this show are just as hilarious as 30 Rock ever was. It’s a great show, but it’s probably time to end. I don’t want any Hazel Wassername lame seasons to drag it down like 30.

It was definitely more uneven after S1 but on the whole I think there are more good episodes than mediocre or outright bad ones.

Interesting people: “What will we do if we have to decide if robots are people?”

It’s like the lamest Cyberpunk future where corporate personhood leads to actual sentience, but that sentience still lives in shitty Delaware.

Invisible, Inc. is another game that’s basically perfect. I had no idea that I needed a stealth-based XCOM, but man did I ever.