Yeah, exactly. Imagine an Earth-sized world (or just a little bigger) orbiting Jupiter. So on the 'facing' or 'inner' side of the planet you would have light reflected from 'Jupiter' as it passed the sides perpendicular to the star, darkness when 'Jupiter' eclipsed the star, and reflected light from 'Jupiter' when it…

I was reading somewhere recently that a large moon, potentially orbiting a Jupiter-sized "brown dwarf" (i.e. gas giant) that was orbiting a red dwarf might end up being habitable.

God, I miss Dio. From Rainbow to Black Sabbath & beyond, that man knew how to friggin' rock.

That just makes me want to go back and watch Monsters Inc. again. It's such an underrated Pixar master(monster?)piece.

Nuh uh. Laser + "phased array" - I think we all know what's just been invented here.

And if you instead make it "alien intelligence", it's much worse...

Wouldn't "another whack" have been more appropriate? ^.^

Okay, I just have to say... that is an awesome name for a protein that causes you to lose your mind.

I am immediately reminded of some of the more impressive paper-based effects in Don Hertzfeldt's REJECTED. Near the end, it gets really technically stunning.

I met Scott Wegener at a tiny little comic book convention in Boston about 5 years ago. It pleases me to no end that he and Brian have found so much success with this comic. Very cool indeed.

The stop motion was really quite amusing and nicely thought-out. The cover of the theme song... eh, didn't really do it for me. I would have preferred it with the original. Maybe someone will do a mix-up-mash-up thing and stick this video with the original theme song... now that I could get behind!

I feel like I got 12 minutes' worth of crazy WTF laughing-ness out of the description alone.

Lois M. Bujold's description of a dystopian cryonic-corporation-shareholder-vote-gathering scheme in CRYOBURN is pretty excellent. Basically, you sell your right to vote to the company that freezes you, to be revived some unspecified number of years later.

I prefer the ending where it turns out in the end that HE's actually the one who died in the accident, he's been living in 'limbo' or something the whole time because he's unwilling to let go, and the last shot is his wife and son at his funeral.

Did you actually just use Twilight as an example of a "good book"? Have you *read* it?

No one who speaks German could be dangerous.

Ha! Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. I didn't see the resolution mechanics in this article, and since I was originally viewing from work I wasn't able to click through to see more details.

This sounds a lot like the Savage Worlds system. Anyone know if it's officially or unofficially related? I've played the Necessary Evil SW campaign and I imagine it felt a lot like this would. Anybody who's played both?

Oh. My. God. Why wasn't THIS man in charge of the prequels?!

"It's no good, Captain! I canna reach the control panel!" xD