There are hundreds of NES and SNES games that are essentially just GONE outside of illegal ROMs because big corporations don’t care about preserving art, they care about $$$.

I’ve been a YT Red/Premium user since day one. Since 90% of what I watch is just YT it makes sense to me. The only YT Original Series I watched every episode of was Vsauce’s Mindfield. That’s it. Out of the 100 channels I subscribe to and watch every single day I only watched one Original show. That’s the fundamental…

I’m gonna be that guy and point out “iconic” (if it can be called that) was capeless (cue gifs from The Incredibles).

There’s some evidence that even something as simple as the year’s flu can be deadly to populations with limited exposure. There was some research that indicated that in past deadly flu pandemics (such as 1918), survival rates were higher with reduced symptoms for those that carried antibodies that were similar to past…

I feel like Asians having the highest average earnings is from a smaller sample size being skewed by Emma Stone.

This point really bears repeating (please see my comment as if 11/21/18, 7:14 PM), precisely because (a) it’s difficult to do because of all that “blowback” from previous macho cowboy gimmicks and (b) it’s not considered macho to be moral instead of “practical.” Here I’ll just add one more example of a “practical”…

Your error here is that you’re using a 2018 perspective to judge a 1976 statement about a 1966 show. Roddenberry’s views were all over the material written to guide the writers before an episode was shot. The Federation/Starfleet was intended to be Utopian. A 1966 American pop culture Utopia.

Per the io9 aarticle “Why We Need Utopian Fiction Now More Than Ever,” sci-fi author Redfern Jon Barrett — now there’s a memorable name! — came up with the attractive and useful term “ambitopia,” for something that’s neither a utopia nor a dystopia but somewhat in between, and typically leaning more toward utopia.…

Beyond simple nausea at the thought of Starfleet sinking so low, there’s also the rather more pragmatic and substantial point that cowboy stunts like the ones Section 31 indulges in just don’t work. At worst they make the agency and the government sponsoring it look like a bunch of damned fools, like the Bay of Pigs…

Without The Founders, it’s probable that the Jem’hadar would have rampaged for months across the Alpha Quadrant, slaughtering everyone in their sights before they finally succumbed to their ketracel-white withdrawals. While the Federation would have technically won the war, there is no evidence that they would have…

It wasn’t very evenly displayed, but I would say it was there. It evolved into a bigger portion of Roddenberry’s vision for the setting and really came into play in TNG. I will not accept that the first 2 seasons of TNG were bad. They had some bad episodes and production values were low, but there were also some…

I definitely appreciate the mythology that has grown around Section 31 but I have to point out that while its origin has been retconned to fit into the larger Star Trek universe it’s actual roots are a bit different.

All of your points can be true and yet still Moonraker can be the worst Bond film.

That would be freaking awesome, seeing as how that story never got a followup.

Yeah, I guess the problem becomes, how do good people make good choices when other societies that are more advanced than you don’t believe in those choices?

Section 31 are secretly all controlled by those one symbiotes that were never spoken of again in TNG.

I’m not the biggest fan of the concept of section 31. It’s always bugged me that that when Kirk and Spock were having goofy space adventures with Space Abraham Lincoln at the same time there was a shadowy cabal secretly controlling Star Fleet.

I get where they’re coming from both in wanting to critique the idea of an idealistic utopia and from a writer’s perspective wanting to create challenges and conflict, but I still kinda don’t like it. I have pages worth of thoughts and strong opinions about the “Hard men making hard choices” trope, but in the end I jus…

OUTSIDE OF THE SPACE FIGHT YOU’RE BOTH SO WRONG

Well, the adaptation of Dr. No does fit that description pretty well.