Am I the only one who wanted to see those floating city blocks get into a battle like space ships? Talk about class warfare, that would have been amazing!

Oops. I read on Wikipedia Marvel reaquired the rights from New Line in 2011

Namor is still in a weird place where nobody is absolutely certain where his rights lay. They were slightly different from the distribution rights deal Marvel had with Universal before Disney bought them, but are expected to revert pretty soon. I believe this year, maybe?

Terriers :-(. My 3rd favorite show cancelled too soon. Just slightly behind Better off Ted, and Firefly.

Insinuating that Its a bargain bin game to begin with? I can understand some of the independent game sales, but then people start expecting to get AAA games for pennies. I don't mind them offering game for that low especially if its a game I haven't gotten around to buying yet, but when people start expecting games to…

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This is known as the Etymological Fallacy. It is true that decimate comes from Latin decimare, which includes the root deci and means "to reduce by one tenth", but the fact is that the meaning of a word is a social negotiation among the speaker community, and this older sense has fallen far behind the more common "to…

I did not know that Erowid existed, pretty interesting site. I educated myself with books, my father happens to be a psychiatrist specializing in Addictive Behaviours, so I had a lot of books on the subject, a little bit technical but very interesting indeed. I also know quite a few people that do drugs so I have…

I get you. Mental illness is highly stigmatized, and I can see how 'deranged' could be a trigger word that would bring up negative associations and make one angry, resentful, sad, or offended.

It's just my personal feeling, but as someone who lives with mental illness, the comment was not offensive in the least. When you brutalize any animal, human or otherwise, it will be psychologically deranged. The word deranged means 'driven insane.' It is entirely appropriate here, just as it would be appropriate to…

So you are a fan of abolishing all zoning laws? That really worked out in the Victorian era when factories could move in next door and their waste became your problem.

Lots of geek-for-geek media has to be very insider or hardcore to appeal to the hardcore, where more "accessible" fare gets a bad rap for not being for geeks. I'm reminded of the backlash against more pop oriented neo-prog from the 80's (Asia, Marillion, even YesWest) which was more song oriented than the crazy stuff…

What if your neighbor just decided to build an open air gun range in his or her backyard? You'd just have to deal with the noise and potential stray bullets, rowdy patrons, etc., huh? Whether you notice it or not, you probably benefit from zoning laws and building codes every day.

The fact is that there is a permitting…

I don't hate anyone for hating it. I'm just tired of being marginalized a lesser geek or some sort of geek "racist" for liking it. In fact, I wouldn't defend it so much if people didn't attack it ubiquitously.

exactly. nerds are real people. they are just as likely to tell you to fuck off as they are to debate the merrits of warp travel.

Seriously. I am all four of those men, and my wife is all four of those women. Geeks judge other geeks all the time; getting it right isn't about pretending all Geeks are happy and harmonious, because they are not. And if anyone bothers watching seasons 4-7, they'd know that the show has given us more than a little…

Anyone know where to get a copy of the voynich manuscript? I think it'd be a great bathroom book.

very good point.

+ 5 billion for Godspeed you Black Emperor sound track.

I am of the opinion that it's ignorance the gateway more than anything. Many times I have seen people try drugs because they don't know what the drugs do, they just heard someone say they were cool or they were curious, so they tried them.