The aesthetics of this movie are fantastic, but the acting is beyond awful. (I think they were deliberately trying to recapture the cheese of the old serials, but it turned out so very badly.)

At 15 I would’ve preferred Adventures in Babysitting, too. I had a crush on Elisabeth Shue for years. But the older I get, the funnier Mel Brooks movies get. Blazing Saddles has gone from ‘so embarassingly awful I cannot watch it’ to gleefully watching it whenever it happens to be on.

I completely adore Iain M. Banks’ science-fiction. His more mainstream literary novels I’m mixed on. I found the unrelenting horror of A Song of Stone to be depressing, and The Steep Approach to Garberdale languishes unfinished on my audiobooks app. Transition worked much better for me, but I found it more SF-like,…

The main difference between ‘genre’ and ‘mainstream literature’ is where it gets shelved in the bookstore.

I was appalled when I found out that the VME bus is still alive and kicking in the scientific community.

They’ve only learned if they don’t do it again the next movie, assuming Lindelof’s still producing.

It drives me nuts too, but at one remove. I’m not the scientist in the family.

Welcome to scientific computing. Your equipment was all bought on a grant three years ago, or eight years ago, or maybe even longer. The grant wasn’t renewed, or it was renewed to do new and different things. Either way, a tech refresh isn’t the sort of thing that gets grant approval when there’s a sequester on and…

This. I was never a fan before, though I did find the character potentially interesting, but the Bryan Q. Miller series was fantastic. Turned her into my favorite Batgirl, and my favorite bat-sidekick ever.

Why would it being handheld only be so bad? Granted, having to buy a current model 3DS or Vita is annoying, but there’s a definite place for JRPGs designed for handhelds, and Persona V would seem to lend itself well to the platform.

This is excellent news. Martha Wells is a wonderful, if under appreciated writer, and if her Leia is half as awesome as Ravenna from The Element of Fire, it will be one of the best Leia depictions ever.

It felt very JRPG to me, in the sense that I was running a squad of individuals, each of whom had their own (however limited) story and their own unique stats and equipment within a larger, more common class.

I remember these. They weren’t bad, but they weren’t great either. (I distinctly remember being unimpressed with Garret’s characterization as things moved along.)

I'll agree with jefeloco: the Codex Alera books are better as a series. The Dresden books do have the advantage of a long-running series with a ton of backstory that's hung together remarkably well. All that history lets Butcher line up some utterly devastating plot twists.

The lower bar is also useful for town/commuter/cargo bikes where the rider may be in street clothes or for older riders of either gender who have trouble kicking a leg over the seat.

I enjoyed Dreadnaught! but I always thought it was something of a guilty pleasure. Piper is a bit too Mary Sue. (Though she's not any more unreasonable than, say, a young James T. Kirk would be.)

I think 'Uhura's Song', by Janet Kagan should definitely be in there. Not many Star Trek novels cover First Contact situations particularly well, and this one does. It also puts Uhura's skills as a linguist and translator front and center. I'll agree with 'The Wounded Sky' by Diane Duane as another great TOS novel…