We were all going there, you got there first.

Yes, but only because of the lag between the turbolasers demand for increased power and the buildup of exhaust gas pressure to drive the turbine providing increased intake pressure.

No dude. They're beaming to Tosche Station to pick up some dilithium converters. Totally different.

it's a very different book. I read it a long time ago, but as I recall, it's a smaller and more focused story than American Gods

and Anansi Boys, presumably

Ha :-) I was thinking "most effective" in terms of making sense as as character, not like the best at accomplishing her in-fiction goals.

Accurate.

But Falcor is possibly the nerdiest dragon of all.

That's why I found the world-building the most satisfying thing about Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon. Because while still being recognizably fantasy, it wasn't a faded replica of Tolkein and his northern European influences.

More like

And like Capaldi and Karen Gillan, she's been on the show already.

Goddammit, I was not expecting that to be an NSFW link.

Or possibly the brawler companion who handles the punching aliens part of the job.

Yeah - the Master generally suffers from being kind of a Draco Malfoy, in that he's set up as the protagonists' equal and opposite, when in reality he's basically a fuck-up.

Something I kind of like about Daredevil is that, while he has superpowers, they aren't like flashy or noticeable, so over the years characters who can replicate the basic "dude who fights good" power set (Spider-Man, Iron Fist) have been able to fill in.

I shall read this comment and appreciate it.

Yeah I imagine that'll be about as effective as my boycott of Walmart, wherein I continued not to shop there, but on purpose.

Has it really? I was binging the show for a while and bailed when it became evident that the writers had real problems with women.

I remember the good old days when the icons of the hateful Right abused oxycontin until they went deaf.

Also I wandered around St. Peter's for like an hour and couldn't find anywhere to change my money.