You didn't really have to make someone up to come up with an awful relative of Asimov's. David was already bad enough.

As someone that doesn't really follow baseball, saying that to be a no-hitter a game has to have no hits at all makes sense to me. I mean, it's called a "no-hitter", not "no-hitter-except-when-the-game-goes-past-9-innings-and-someone-gets-a-hit-then".

Yeah, there is that hurdle. :P

That'd be just as feasible, though. You could have literally exactly the same payment systems as exist now, it's just that the creator would be providing the company a perpetual license to their work rather than ownership rights.

Honestly, I've never been sure why authorship rights should be transferable at all outside, like, the creation of trade dress or other works specifically for the purposes of functioning as a business. Indefinite licenses granted to family or corporate entities, sure, but there's something just strange to me about the…

Oh, I see; okay, that's fair. I liked it personally, part one felt like a good capstone to Terra's WoB arc and part 2 exactly what she needed to come back, but I can understand why it'd feel frustrating too, yeah. Sorry for implying something you weren't meaning to say!

On the other hand, though, he did say that a 2006 animated adaptation of his Doctor Who comic "Black Legacy" was the only adaptation of his work he ever saw that he liked. So either he never actually watched the JLU episode or he didn't actually like it after all. http://goodcomics.comicbook…

I have to admit, I have no idea where either of you are coming from; I honestly don't see what's annoying about Terra at all.

Isn't this conflating subjective opinion of a work with objective appraisal of how well the work achieves what it is attempting to achieve? There is plenty of stuff that I personally enjoy that I consider bad, or stuff I don't personally enjoy that I consider good, across all sorts of media.

Not that I've ever heard? And I can't find anything backing that up poking around online, but I've only done a little digging so far, nothing all that in depth.

Fair point, yeah. And I suppose in this specific case it's foggier than what I said too. Canada as an entity had legitimate reasons to go to war what with the US impinging on their territory and all, beyond just the specific US/UK conflicts, so I was probably too glib to say it didn't count. :P

Oh no even worse. Lovecraft was super-racist against black people even compared to the standards of the 1920s, let alone today. Like, he was so over-the-top racist, he convinced Robert E. Howard to stop being racist just by virtue of knowing him.

Eh, it still works; Canada wasn't its own country until 1867, the War of 1812 was a USA/UK war.

That's literally basically what happened. The founder was a guy named Carl, and he started off with a big drive-in
restaurant named after himself. When he was looking to expand, he did so by opening a pair of smaller restaurants in nearby cities, and since they were smaller than "Carl's", he called them "Carl's Jr.".

The Joker meant aping the combat in the Arkham games; even with Shadow of Mordor originally having been The Dark Knight Rises, that would still mean that Monolith was aping mechanics developed by Rocksteady.

Yeah, his family has a tendency towards alcoholism, so he avoids it entirely just so as to not risk falling down that hole himself.

Plus, in order to be struck by lightning seven times, you need to survive being struck by lightning six times, which itself is pretty unlikely even if you work in conditions where being struck by lightning isn't as uncommon. It's a surprisingly long streak because you'd expect them to die before reaching seven.

Why not just hit the collapse button and skip all the scrolling?

Probably Hylian rather than Kokiri in that case, but that could be it too, yeah.

Yeah, the Oracles games have a really convoluted development history. Originally Capcom was just going to do a remake of Legend of Zelda and if that went well they'd do more games (which was why every boss in Oracle of Seasons was a LoZ boss). But then partway through development, after a few other changes in…