*hands book of matches

"Funny" true story. A friend of mine was an RA at M.I.T. One of the students on her floor came to her. He lost one of his teeth. He was losing his hair. He couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. She took him to the med center. No one there could figure out what his problem was.

I think this is where Marvel is succeeding with the MCU. Marvel is not making sequels to push forward a franchise. Marvel is making character driven movies that happen to have a 2 or a 3 in the title.

Imagine cracking the first beer on Mars.

I'm just going to leave this here.

I took her distrust of Ivan to be a combination of anger at him disrupting her work just as it was coming to an end and the stress of the time jumping. She is just savvy enough to know time travel has consequences. None of it read "future evil overlord" levels of destructive tendencies. Though I will admit, in…

Okay, I'll admit, I did not see that coming. Good stuff! I'm in.

Here is your genuine No Prize for winning the 'nets today. Just send $4.50 S&H.

+30 stars for NPH jamming with Elmo gif

Just go to Advanced Light Weaponry (advanced-light.com). He's got a proto-type crossguard saber up. I'm sure he'll have it in production soon. I ordered a sword from him (Fidelacchius) and it was excellent.

What you seem to be saying is "Let's wait until we can point to a program and call it GAI, THEN we'll worry about building ethics into it." If we're research all these specialized AI's, why not build a specialized "ethical" AI at the same time? That way when we integrate all these pieces (or when an AI assimilates all…

Nah, Marvel beat the hell outta New York on a regular basis. I remember one cross over where some superheroes were in a restaurant when they got jumped by some villains. The heroes win and then profusely appologize to the matre d'. He waves it off. "We have a superhero insurance clause. Can't run a business in New…

My favorite the old West End Games Star Wars RPG ads were the ones that took a still from the Trilogy and circled some random dude in red away from the main action. The caption always read "What's this guy's story?" It's what sold me on Star Wars RPG. Few people I knew played Jedi. True this was in part because 100%…

Yeah, I know what you mean. I always played something else in West End Games Star Wars or WotC's Star Wars. My favorite was a Spec Forces demo tech who was great at fixing droids, hyperdrives, and speeders, and utter crap at setting explosives. Seriously. He couldn't even deal with something as simple as a grenade.…

You know, you blow up one sun and suddenly everyone expects you to walk on water. -Lt. Col. Samantha Carter

I'm really thinking this will be a heroic victory by the dragons (Daenerys, Jon Snow, et. al.) turned pyrrhic by betrayal from a "pragmatic" and "political" faction. I see a "thank you very much for securing our future, *stab*. Too bad you won't be part of it."

Dammit, you beat me to it!

N'ah. Bob Newhart already did that.

Because wizards are a lot like the rest of us, working stiffs just getting by. They're too busy just making ends meet and enjoying the little (all-be-it magical) things in life to solve big problems. They're also just as short sighted and as prone to panic as we. Well, I say "we". I mean all those other muggles.…

All I could think after that scene was "poor engine, it didn't ask to have some idiot shoved through it."