Yea, I wonder if they discuss it at writers meetings or how exactly they decide what drum they’re going to constantly bang.

People should remember shit like this next time they can’t be adult enough to just sit in traffic without flipping the fuck out.

Close. Going by the video and model they show of the bridge, it was not complete. It lacked the second shorter span, the cable support tower between them, and the staying cables meant to hold up the spans in tension.

Compare the accident scene to this model:

This isn’t any more funny just because you posted it on multiple comments.

I have a feeling this will be one of those cases future engineers learn about in class.

Boy howdy, io9 has chosen a narrative for this movie’s reception and they’re gonna stick to it dangnabbit!

I have hopes.

I’m not sure why so many people are so ready to hate on this movie. The book was a very popcorny young male fantasy (“boy saves world, gets rich and the girl”) like a million other throwaway books angled at particular audiences (cough... “Fifty Shades of Grey”). Not a reason to go crazy over it, but not a reason for…

You wouldn’t have exactly gotten any of that from any of the other Ready Player One ad spots

The movie is green on Metacritic and fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. I have no skin in the game, it seems like some here really have feelings about whether it succeeds or fails, but I have hopes.

Now that the first wave of Ready Player One reviews have confirmed what the earliest trailers for the film suggested—that it’s over-reliant on genre culture nostalgia because its story is sorely lacking...

Now that the first wave of Ready Player One reviews have confirmed what the earliest trailers for the film suggested—that it’s over-reliant on genre culture nostalgia because its story is sorely lacking

I had the same thoughts.

This makes me think of a story that happened to a buddy of mine years ago in Prague. He was trying to speak German and doing ok with it. But then the person he was speaking to said, “you probably shouldn’t try to speak German to people. You sound like a Nazi soldier.” He thought about it and realized that well yeah he…

I used to have CDs (I think they came free with a PC game years ago) to teach yourself Klingon. I played them in the car until I realised that my young daughters knew more Klingon words than Welsh (if you live in Wales, it’s compulsory to learn Welsh throughout school) so I stopped. Learning Welsh has done them well…

Unsurprisingly, I had that exact same thought.

Yes, I will be that guy that nitpicks that Geordi shouldn’t be in a red command outfit with what looks like a Season 3-onwards neckline.

That’s a pretty standard Germain review. He has two flavors:

So why doesn’t it live up to “the franchise, the character, or its title”? That’s the thesis of your review, yet you literally don’t say why that’s the case anywhere in the article.

People: read the links in the story before you pass judgment. If you want a quick overview...