It was my very favorite book as a teenager. I can't imagine there's another book I read cover-to-cover more often than it. I haven't picked it up in years, but I bet it still hums along quite nicely (and that there are whole droves of themes that I was missing before.)

I loved the book in high school to the point that I doubt there's another book I read more often, cover-to-cover, back then, so when I got a chance to watch one of the longer cuts on laserdisc at a friend's house we were both deeply, badly geeking out. Nowadays, I certainly find it bumpy, but it's tough to shake off…

Mon-TAGE!

There's an odd tension there. On the one hand, I agree that Lynch seems least interested in, well, the things that typically interest him the least, but on the other hand, he seemed to shift the focus of the movie on to those very elements. The book Dune could've been turned into a trippy ecological movie, or a…

I thought Bobcat Goldthwait was great and I got the feeling Conan was hip to the groove, but yeah. Some of them, I just remember thinking "you definitely should've screened this one at least once before showing up.

…a-a-a-a-and this is how I just now learned he died, alas. R.I.P.

"Girl Hair" is what I thought of, too. It's not really a stereotypical episode of SGCTC, but it does nicely reveal the lengths the show is willing to go to to land a single joke. My friend and I watched it at 2am like it was a waking nightmare until that very last line, and then we both about died.

Sorry, I was referring to the computer game company Blizzard, maker of World of Warcraft (among others.) Every one of their big-picture ideas has been stolen from somewhere (the original Warcraft came from Westwood Studios' Dune II, for example,) but they always tweak, refine, balance and generally develop their…

Yeah, will do. I highly recommend that mechlab link. I trial all my builds on that before I ever buy anything in-game since I found it.

I got a stock 6R. I don't have the money to tweak it now, but 2.75 mil should turn it into this:

Sorry for the double-reply, but after I posted that grumpfest I looked it up and Interstellaria is literally a one-man show—and what's more, he's been tweaking the UI like crazy. So after all that, I'm trying to cut it some more slack.

It's frustrating, because when I say "dunderheaded" I mean that I don't see how the game made it out of alpha without someone noticing all these Great Big Stupid Things and commenting on them. So, space combat: a minimap pops up over your normal "crew in the ship" view and you click around the map to guide the ship…

Clicker Heroes actually broke a mouse of mine, embarrassingly. At least it cured me of "playing" those "games" any more.

No, but I'd love to have one. I'm trying to assemble a full lance each of clan and IS mechs, and I used my clan heavy spot for a LRM boat Orion IIc. But I'd get a Timber Wolf for the same reason I got the Warhammer: I just want one. In the boardgame at least, they were about as good as it gets for "does it all." …

Ugh, that's the truth. That FW event about killed me. It's super nice to just hop back into QBs now.

Heh, FW "scouting." My first try into those, I bought a Jenner IIc and loaded it for speed and armor, with a few ESLs and a TAG for weaponry. Turns out, nobody was playing that way: everyone else was bringing Hunchbacks, Stormcrows and Novas (Novae?) and hunting each other down for brawls. My SCR does ~100 kph and…

Ahh dang it, I bought an all-missile Stormcrow (SCR-D) for FW scouting, and I dearly wished I'd bought the Nova-S instead. I get the logic of 5xS-SRM6s in theory, but one ECM ruins that forever and of course my SCR doesn't have a counter-ECM slot. (I mean, streaks literally don't shoot without a lock! I spent the…

I get why you couldn't make The Last Dragon the movie you chose for this year, but I'd still love to have read a writeup of it. It's great.

It seems like a lot of the articles would boil down to "…because it wasn't very good."

I know why I personally have forsaken Home Improvement: I remember being perpetually frustrated by this show, and specifically how the plot always revolved around Tim being thicker than a sack of hammers. (See also: Coach.) I'd laugh, but I perpetually wanted to strangle the person the camera was pointed at most.