Mythbusters showed what could happen if air rushes into a vacuum tube...

Yeah, I feel like people are very caught up in the coolness of it, with little thought given to the practicality. At least here in the US. Certain challenges are more easily solved elsewhere.

Railroads may not own the air, but they own the land and the land is where any support structure will be built. Frankly, not that we, in the US, have very many derailments, but I would be very wary of building anything overhead a railroad. The chances for one derailment to simultaneously destroy a significant section…

Surprisingly, it took a remake/fan edit to get the mass of a biplane impacting a lighthouse correct.

Whoa whoa whoa. I said Snyder is directing, not M. Night Shyamalan.

What do you mean? If Snyder is involved, CAP rapes Bucky. You know, just to have a little fun with the character.

Truly, we live in an age of wonder.

Eh. I’m willing to bet that although they say “piracy” what they really mean is “there’s no way for us to reliably quantify the ROI of this massive expenditure”.

I preordered from Amazon, and all the way up to this morning, their site kept saying I'd get it today. I knew the gig was up when, even a couple days out, no tracking info appeared with the order, but I quietly hoped inside my mind that they'd screw up and I'd get the game two weeks early. Oh well.

I'll never NOT star someone who works the old theme song into a discussion.

I'm with you. I'll answer my phone for immediate family only. Otherwise they can leave a message, text, or nothing. The phone exists for my convenience, not theirs.

oh, and I used “cleared it all up” in a very sarcastic sense...in my mind anyway.

None of those were film canon either. At least when it came to Thrawn and Mara Jade. There was a whole hierarchy passed down from Lucasfilm that cleared it all up. I don’t remember the exact details, but essentially, nothing was “official-official” canon unless it was in a film. Everything outside of the films…

WTF are you on about? Obama never promised to dismantle the FBI.

Ugh. Articles like this infuriate me. I’m in the industry, work for a well-known developer. We’ve taken steps to mitigate crunch as best we can, and for the most part, it’s effective. There are still, however, times when we’re approaching a milestone where we have to buckle in and put in some serious hours. But I’m…

I'm an episode behind right now, but I have to say, I was impressed that they threw in a Darryl Zero/Zero Effect reference in episode 2.

“You had ONE. JOB. FRANK. Goddamn.

I feel stupid for even asking this, but is that an open window (or porthole, I guess) on the front edge of the conning tower?

If his reply had stated that, I wouldn’t have said anything.

you know, most people who were laid off had no say in that decision. They’re just trying to make a game that people will enjoy, as directed by the exectives at the studio. But yeah, I’m sure they’re thrilled you find enjoyment in the studio’s difficulties and their unemployment.