I was surprised by his response not because he’s black or an athlete, but because I assume that most kids in college couldn’t think or write this well.

Shit, I remember reading stuff in grade school telling me about how we’d have this massive space station done by 2010.

I remember that article because it mentioned the completion date of Lego Land, and I thought, “I’ll be too old for LegoLand then.” and was sad.

They have translated the paperback fantasies into digital derivatives, but the Limited Edition is packaged with a pulp style graphic novel.

Also where are our flying cars you hacks!

Some of them did write about something that resembles virtual reality and how it would become the obsession of the masses to the exclusion of reality. Damon Knight, Philip K. Dick, Heinlein, Bradbury, several others I am sure I am forgetting.

I wonder how many of those rocket punk science fiction writers of yesteryear would have guessed that we wouldn’t rise to the stars, but retreat into the billion worlds of our dreams?

Jesus. Christ.

( 1 You can’t walk into the convention

Actually, it’s the enslaver robot who took his attendants for a walk.

The article is LITERALLY one sentence long, just read it. The recording was made by a random passerby, not Boston Dynamics.

Do you even read ? It’s only 1 paragraph for christ sake

So, the only thing keeping us from real sci-fi like robots is really a small potent power source, right?

And it would likely also set him up to die (later) as well. If he’s shown as be as powerful as he should be, his fall would be the “Empire strikes back” moment of the new trilogy. Making whomever (or whomever’s) that took him down that much more threatening towards the new heroes. A plot device I kind of expect to…

It is NOWHERE near proper.

Interesting, this change would have altered the structure of the movie completely. It wouldn’t have ruined the movie, but it definitely would have undermined Rey as the new hero of the franchise, and would have put the spotlight back on Luke in a big way. I get the impulse, but given that Luke would have been some…

Oriental?

Awwww Baby Groot, so cute.

“Now that this episode is OVER, will you THROW your support behind a candidate?”

That looks really phenomenal, actually

Never seen a Madea movie but holy hell that poster is hilarious!