Obligatory note that the top image is a reference to Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, maybe the most fun painting of all time.

Seems completely reasonable.

The Mycenaean people spread ...in the 2nd century BC

Yep, not that much at all. Tobacco kills nearly 6 million, and that’s with a lot of people not using it.

It has gotta hurt like hell to have that implanted arc reactor move around in your chest when you change armors.

Freeza - The Newest Recruit of the Third Street Saints.

A 9.9 quake on the New Madrid fault turns Memphis, Tennessee into an island nation and awakens a cryo-ed cyborg Elvis from his slumber beneath its capital Graceland in Hunka Hunka Burning Lava.

I think one of the reasons this scene has had such an impact on people is because - once again - it doesn’t fit with standard narrative directions.

Well, if you look at The Old Republic games which are set thousands of years prior to the movies... tech hasn’t changed barely at all.

The Mistress is DLC.

Divorce Your Wife in the Hospital While She’s Agonizing With Cancer Simulator 2015?

Crows before ho’s!

Take Game of Thrones, for example, you have a super decentralized feudal structure that reflects the very early Medieval period while, at the same time, having a king who is shown to have the power of an Absolute Monarch (Absolutism in Europe is a product of the Enlightenment {1650-1800}). The actual military elements…

I feel like this comes down to internal consistency for me. If you're talking about something that I'm familiar with in the real world, and your setting is supposed to be this real world, it is very jarring to just have it be different/wrong unless there's a good explanation for it.

I really don't understand the negative stigma associated with these things. I don't own a Fleshlight myself but am not really opposed to acquiring one should the need arise. I think it's on par with women using vibrators instead of just their own two hands. We all jerk off, might as well make it feel better!

The term "legend" is often overused.

[inane commentary about Zakus not being Gundams goes here]

Toys are #3

Spider-Man is popular enough of a character that I'm sure it would work, but it seems like the sort of thing that is made for confusing mainstream audiences.

This actually came up in the Shadows of Mordor game. Not for Lord of the Rings (which takes place after the game) but for final battle in The Hobbit.