While I wholeheartedly disagree with your thoughts on fine art, the fact of the matter is that the “BUT CAN ROBOTS ART???” conversation nearly always neglects the day to day art we encounter constantly (especially in entertainment) but don’t really think of the same way as fine art! It’s pretty interesting stuff with…

I’m always interested in the use of machines to create custom art assets (rather than fine art, which is a whole other discussion but generally gets lumped in with “artist”).

In the vein of the letter about last names, how would you feel about two people with the same first name dating?

Pails Neutronfire: a foolish young heroine from Ut.

I can’t find the exact quote, but I know that Patrick Stewart has expressed the same opinion—that performing Shakespeare was a perfect introduction to playing a scifi starship captain. Both require you to use terminology that sounds silly in any other context (invert the warp core polarity!) and completely sell it.

In addition to what Thidrekr said, I think it also has to do with the fact that there are simply a lot fewer Hollywood-style action heroes who are women than equivalent action heroes who are men. At least to me, I read it as the author saying that she doesn’t just mean “best in a fairly small pool” but “best in the…

I thought the people on cooking shows were lying to me for the longest time.

Make sure you know how to pronounce it, for added wtfery! Gooey-duck!

I don’t think that’s inherently a bad thing, but what it means for a film is that the xenomorphs can’t be the thing you’re rooting for and can’t be the hook or puzzle or intrigue. They have to be the obstacle in the way that, say, nature is the obstacle/antagonist in some movies.

Extremely long wait times (for critical and non-critical care) are nothing new in the US, either, depending on where you live. I’m up in Northern California (ie, actually northern, not San Francisco) and we have a constant dearth of doctors. Easily six months to set up oneself for a primary care physician, sometimes…

Dragonfuit! Those are its seeds.

Like RoseRevolution said, generally speaking the use of female (or male) as an adjective is fine (a female teacher, the first female astronaut) because it’s a descriptor. Using it as a noun has strong dehumanizing connotations—generally speaking, referring to “the female” or “the male” makes it sound like you’re…

My husband works for a hospital and recently got to see the acquisition of a BAG OF LEECHES. It was an exciting moment all around.

Small Impatience, my playermade-race-but-in-the-vein-of-Dromites character.

I had a weird crush on Andrew Divoff in these films as a teenager. I recently rewatched Wishmaster with a friend and...apparently it didn’t go away. Huh.

I have several highly detailed, large plastic dinosaurs on my desk (with bonus articulating mouths).

I love Sideways’ work! Excellent to see him featured here. His music videos are really accessible even if you know nothing about music (like myself)!

Just from a graphic design perspective, the lighting alone is bizarre and confusing. I feel like they might have been trying to replicate something that’s pretty often done in comics, where you show dramatic lighting in various colors from different sides of the characters, but in art that can look fun and…

I realize that there is foreshortening going on in this image that disguises the sarcophagus somewhat, but my first thought was that it was some badass baby cradle and somehow the mummy was actually going to be Moses.

That’s beautiful!